20 Celebrities Who Have Changed The Way We View Gender
Kate Bornstein
“So, I think it’s time now for LGBT to own the fact that it’s pretty much a straight movement. By adding the Q, they’ve kind of admitted that. They’ve said that “OK we’re gonna add another letter because there are people that are family that are not us.” And it would be tempting to say that Q is better than straight or that straight is better than queer – that is the temptation that comes with every binary. But I think that what it’s time to do is to knit that wound within LGBT and go – OK, some of us are straight, get over it. It doesn’t mean that we’re heterosexual, it means that we like to live the way a whole lot of people like to live. And by the same token, it’s high time the world starts owning its queer family. The people who go out on the front lines of sexuality and gender and stretch the boundries for all of us. It’s high time we stop demonizing them, especially within the LGBT community.“
Kate Bornstein, also known as my hero in the world of gender and sexuality, is a prominent force to be reckoned with. Being born as a male, they received gender confirmation surgery in 1986 and identifies as gender non-conforming. They use the they/them pronouns and has made their entire life about speaking out to society so gender can someday be understand on a simpler, less judgmental level.