Not man, not woman, Bornstein was unmoored from society and, still, from herself.Īs Bornstein told me during our interview, that was "a dark night of soul." But it is the work Bornstein did in the wake of that disillusioning experience that made her into the indefinable trans auntie of a generation of queer people across the globe. She left behind manhood to become a woman, only to find that the new label she'd adopted also failed to accurately identify her. She was exiled from the Church of Scientology, losing her daughter and the mother of her children. Where the trans movement of today has gained momentum in part by developing and advertising a transgender ideology that lines up neatly along a gender binary between male and female, Bornstein's gender identity cannot be easily or neatly categorized. You may recognize her from her role on Caitlyn Jenner's TV show, but Kate Bornstein has been leading a gender revolution for the last 30 years.īornstein is one of the most important contributors to gender discourse in the 20th century, and her ideas are still just as radical. The transgender movement is now a powerful cultural force, but there are trans elders who have led the way for the recognition and progress that we are making today in the United States.
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