Kate Bornstein - Gender Quotes

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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 hasn't told us yet. Personally, I think no question containing either/or deserves a serious answer, and that includes the question of gender.

Kate Bornstein

Drag queen is a gender like no other, and with practice I'd learned to rise to it.

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It doesn't really matter what a person decides to do, or how radically a person plays with gender. What matters, I think, is how aware a person is of the options. How sad for a person to be missing out on some expression of identity, just for not knowing there are options

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There are only people who are fluidly-gendered, and … the norm is that most of these people continually struggle to maintain the illusion that they are one gender or another.

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I was a lonely, frightened little fat kid who felt there was something deeply wrong with me because I didn't feel like I was the gender I'd been assigned. I felt there was something wrong with me, something sick and twisted inside me, something very very bad about me. And everything I read backed that up.

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