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By Kate Bornstein

A stunningly unique memoir of a pleasant Jewish boy who joined the Church of Scientology and left twelve years later, eventually transitioning to a girl. many years later, she stopped calling herself a lady and have become recognized as a gender outlaw. 

Kate Bornstein—gender theorist, functionality artist, author—is set to alter lives along with her compelling memoir. Wickedly humorous and disarmingly sincere, this can be Bornstein's such a lot intimate booklet but, encompassing her early youth and early life, collage at Brown, a existence within the theater, 3 marriages and fatherhood, the Scientology hierarchy, transsexual existence, LGBTQ politics, and existence at the highway as a sought-after speaker.

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