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Not having been exposed to Kate Bornstein or anything concerning such issues which are presented in our class, I really enjoyed reading Gender Outlaw. But what still lingers in my mind, is why? Why does a person have to change the way they look in order to express who they are? If ever I could speak to Bornstein I would ask her this, because it strikes me to think that an individual must endure such hardship, for acceptance. Acceptance not only from the world, but by they themselves. In other words, why can it not be that a person born with certain bodily functions not be able to act out who they feel inside? Why must there be a predeterminer for life?