Word: genderism
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...defiance of both gender roles, Bornstein claims to be neither a man nor a woman...
Years after her operation, Bornstein said she began to view gender roles with criticism, saying she believed that "we were forced into our genders," compelled by doctors and fashion magazines...
Although her new self-defined gender role as a woman met suspicion in her native Orthodox Jewish community, Bornstein reconciled with her ailing mother, who had acknowledged her son-turned-daughter as a "lesbian" in a very closely-knit circle of friends...
Bornstein, a former Yale student and "hippie boy" of the 1960s, said she rejects traditional conceptions of gender and other conventions, equating them to the rigidity of a "leather-bound dictionary...
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...