Kate Bornstein

Kate Bornstein is a transgender Author, playwright, performance artist and gender theorist. Born Albert Bornstein on March 15, 1948, she underwent sex reassignment surgery in 1986.

Bornstein is currently (2006) writing an autobiography and resides with her partner, Barbara Carrellas, in New York City. Bornstein was raised a Modern Orthodox Jew. She still considers herself Jewish but does not practice any form of Judaism.

Books

 * Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us 1994, ISBN 0-679-75701-5
 * Nearly Roadkill: An Infobahn Erotic Adventure (Novel, co-authored with Caitlin Sullivan), 1996, ISBN 1-85242-418-4
 * My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely 1997, ISBN 0-415-91673-9 (paperback) ISBN 0-415-91672-0 (hardcover)
 * Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws, 2006, ISBN 1-58322-720-2 (note: titled Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Teen Suicide in the UK)

Plays

 * The Opposite Sex Is Neither
 * Virtually Yours
 * Hidden: A Gender
 * Strangers in Paradox
 * y2kate: gender virus 2000
 * Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us