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Yet Bornstein quickly realized that she could not discuss her gender identity in the conservative climate of 1950s America. In the waking world, Bornstein also constructed an imaginary gender change machine in her basement at age ten by decorating an old chair with wires and dials. To end this faceoff, the men would tie Bornstein to a wooden cart and wheel her across to the women as a peace offering. This gender dysphoria (the mismatch between her assigned sex and internal gender identity) often expressed itself in a recurring dream that pitted an army of men against an army of women. Born a “nice Jewish boy” to Ashkenazi parents Paul and Mildred Bornstein in Asbury, New Jersey, on March 15, 1948, Bornstein knew by preschool that she did not identify as a boy.
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