Gender Outlaw is an eye-opening book, combining the emotional force of a coming-of-age story with a savvy cultural critique. -- Out
[Kate Borstein] offers us an abundance of questions--thoughtful, disarming, revelatory questions. Gender Outlaw is an invitation to dialogue, and it's a conversation well worth having. -- Ms.
Gender Outlaw is a radical document. . . -- The Nation
a pastiche of oddments--dreams and memories, influences and quotations, fresh ideas and numerous received wisdoms. . . -- Richard McCann, author of Ghost Letters
In an age of often hostilely expressed gender politics, Ms. Bornstein gently leads audiences through her own psychic labyrinth without antagonism. She is sweet, sincere, lucid and sometimes as corny as Kansas in August. She really should have her own television show. -- New York Times
...it is a pastiche of oddments--dreams and memories, influences and quotations, fresh ideas and numerous received wisdoms.. -- The Nation
To help us rise above the Geraldo mentality of genital fixation, Bornstein has avoided writing a traditional, tell-all autobiography. Instead, her book is a stream-of consciousness essay designed to make us think for ourselves. -- The Boston Phoenix
Bornstein's revolutionary ideas about gender and sexuality are authentic precisely because they come from one who's been there. . .By the time readers finish Gender Outlaw, they may indeed wonder why we live in aworld with only two genders, let alone why we place somuch importance one which one someone happens to be. --San Francisco Bay Guardian