凯特·伯恩斯坦（Kate Bornstein）是一位先锋跨性别作家、表演艺术家、剧作家和演说家，在女性和性别研究领域著有多部获奖作品。性别议题之外她还关注自杀预防。2006年她出版新书《你好，残酷的世界：给青少年和其他边缘人群的101条自杀替代建议》，并在全球范围内呼吁对边缘青少年的支持。伯恩斯坦和她16年的伴侣、性教育家芭芭拉·凯瑞拉斯（Barbara Carrellas）现居纽约，她们家中还有三只猫、两条狗和一只乌龟。

Gender has been described as the battleground for the 90s. As we watch the emergence of 'gender-bending' in popular culture, the lines are being drawn and sides taken up. Somewhere above both sides stands Kate Bornstein, with a unique, funny and lucid voice. Gender Outlaw is the work of a woman who has been through some changes - a former heterosexual male and one-time Scientologist and IBM salesperson, now a lesbian writer and actress who makes regular rounds on the TV talk shows. In her book, Bornstein covers the 'mechanics' of her surgery; everything you've always wanted to know about gender (but were too confused to ask); the place and politics of the transgendered; and the questions of those who give the subject little thought. Kate Bornstein takes on various communities: gay, lesbian, straight, S/M and transgender, along with the 'society at large'. In her witty incisive observations is the foundation of a radical new politics of sexuality and gender. The book also includes Bornstein's play, Hidden: A Gender . Gender Outlaw is an ideal response to the belief that everyone talks about gender, but no one does anything about it. Kate Bornstein has taken (dramatic) steps, and invites the reader along for the trip.