With language filled with expletives, she described the utter scorn she said she though these definitions deserve.
Indeed, Bornstein openly declared that in her former existence as a woman, she had a lesbian lover who later became convinced that she should be a man.
Bornstein jokingly remarked on their relationship as "living for a few years as a heterosexual couple."
In her readings, she added sensual imagery taken from pornographic novels--"the erotica of my people," she said.
But the readings also focused on Bornstein's struggle with her sex change.
Although she said she initially felt triumphant, declaring that "the war was over," she later remained dissatisfied with her new gender role, unable to assimilate it.
"I never went to bed one night in my life knowing I was a man, or one night knowing I was a woman," Bornstein said.
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