Kate Bornstein

Presents the life of a Jewish boy who joined the Church of Scientology and left twelve years later, ultimately transitioning to a woman and becoming a civil rights activist and gender outlaw.

A Memoir

A Queer and Pleasant Danger

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My gender was a ship without sails, tempest-tossed. I needed an anchor. I needed a life preserver. Here's what the Church of Scientology threw me: they said I'm not my body, and I'm not even my mind. They told me I'm a spiritual being called a thetan -- from the Greek letter 'theta,' which we were told meant perfect thought. Male and female is for bodies. Thetans have no gender. Can you imagine a more appealing theology for someone like me?

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