凱特·伯恩斯坦（Kate Bornstein）是一位先鋒跨性彆作傢、錶演藝術傢、劇作傢和演說傢，在女性和性彆研究領域著有多部獲奬作品。性彆議題之外她還關注自殺預防。2006年她齣版新書《你好，殘酷的世界：給青少年和其他邊緣人群的101條自殺替代建議》，並在全球範圍內呼籲對邊緣青少年的支持。伯恩斯坦和她16年的伴侶、性教育傢芭芭拉·凱瑞拉斯（Barbara Carrellas）現居紐約，她們傢中還有三隻貓、兩條狗和一隻烏龜。

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.