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Gainsville, Fla. ? Pride Student Union, ACCENT and LGBT Affairs at the Dean of Students Office will bring speaker Kate Bornstein to the University of Florida in celebration of Pride Awareness Month 2007.
Bornstein is a transgender author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist. She will perform ?On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us? at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Rion Ballroom in the Reitz Student Union. For more information visit www.ufpam.org or lgbt.ufl.edu.
?I?m what?s called a transsexual person. That means I was assigned one gender at birth, and I now live my life as something else. I was born male and raised as a boy. I went through both boyhood and adult manhood, went through a gender change, and ?became a woman,?? Bornstein wrote.