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By Kate Bornstein

ISBN-10: 0807001651

ISBN-13: 9780807001653

ISBN-10: 080700183X

ISBN-13: 9780807001837

ISBN-10: 1522683321

ISBN-13: 9781522683322

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

Kate Bornstein—gender theorist, functionality artist, author—is set to alter lives together with her compelling memoir. Wickedly humorous and disarmingly sincere, this is often Bornstein's so much intimate e-book but, encompassing her early adolescence and youth, collage at Brown, a existence within the theater, 3 marriages and fatherhood, the Scientology hierarchy, transsexual lifestyles, LGBTQ politics, and existence at the highway as a sought-after speaker.

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