My own take on the word "transgender" is that it's an umbrella term for anyone who breaks any rules, laws, guidelines or protocol of gender. So, to r…

- Kate Bornstein

The choice between two of something is not a choice at all, but rather the opportunity to subscribe to the value system which holds the two presented…

- Kate Bornstein

I know I'm not a man-about that much I'm very clear, and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman either, at least not according to …

- Kate Bornstein

The first question we usually ask new parents is : “Is it a boy or a girl ?”. There is a great answer to that one going around : “We don’t know ; it …

- Kate Bornstein

Gender is used as a control mechanism that's just wrong. Gender is never anything to struggle with; gender is something to play with. Once you're fre…

- Kate Bornstein

There's a simple way to look at gender: Once upon a time, someone drew a line in the sans of culture and proclaimed with great self-importance, 'On t…

- Kate Bornstein

Your life's work begins when your great joy meets the world's great hunger.

- Kate Bornstein

…gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.

- Kate Bornstein

No matter how your world falls apart-and honey, that's what happens: we all build ourselves a world, and then it falls apart-but no matter how that h…

- Kate Bornstein