And so Bornstein teamed up with fellow author and performance artist S. Given the increasing visibility of this subject, it seemed like perfect timing for an update to Gender Outlaw. passports, no longer mandating gender-affirming surgery prior to a change in gender status. State Department recently eased its requirements for altering genderidentification on U.S. Not only has it begun to see the inclusion of trans and genderqueer people in popular films and television series, but their experiences and needs are also being addressed in academic discourse and on legislative agendas.īritish Columbia Member of Parliament Bill Siskay is working to include the protection of trans people in Canada’s Human Rights Act and Criminal Code, and the U.S. The world has seen some significant changes. Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of UsĮxposed the cracks in the construction of gender, Gender Outlaws continues older conversations, starts new and often transnational dialogues, and gives us new ways of thinking about and inhabiting trans bodies, politics, and identities.In the 15 years since Kate Bornstein’s groundbreaking 'Finally, a book that gathers together the voices of new generations of gender outlaws! Edited by two trans-legends, this book manages to be smart, sexy, and entertaining. Hanne Blank, author of Big Big Love, Unruly Appetites, and Virgin: The Untouched History especially if you already think you know everything you need to know about them.' Gender Outlaws is required reading for anyone who has a sex or a gender.

'Bornstein, Bergman, and their rogue gallery of contributors explore the human genderscape with wit and soul. ' Gender Outlaws takes the word gender and does to it what each new generation does with its inheritance: take what was handed down, sample and remix the hits of yesterday, and then reinvent and reimagine itself into a new being that only occasionally looks like its parents.' Gender Outlaws includes essays, commentary, comic art, and conversations from a diverse group of trans-spectrum people who live and believe in barrier-breaking lives.

Bear Bergman, collects and contextualises the work of this generation's trans and genderqueer forward thinkers, new voices from the stage, on the streets, in the workplace, in the bedroom, and on the pages and websites of the world's most respected mainstream news sources. In Gender Outlaws, Bornstein, together with writer, raconteur, and theatre artist S. Today's transgenders and other sex/gender radicals are writing a drastically new world into being. In the 15 years since the release of Gender Outlaw, Kate Bornstein's ground-breaking challenge to gender ideology, transgender narratives have made their way from the margins to the mainstream and back again.

Gender Outlaws by Kate Bornstein