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Fair Game

Episode 24: Author, Activist and Icon Kate Bornstein

Fair Game

Leah Remini & Mike Rinder

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.89.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Leah and Mike talk with author, actor, activist and icon Kate Bornstein about homophobia and transphobia in scientology, how she lost her family to disconnection, Fair Game and how scientology thinks gender identity is "solved" with auditing.

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0:00.0

Well, welcome to another fair game podcast. Hello, Mike.

0:09.4

Hi, Lee.

0:10.2

Hello, you.

0:11.2

Good.

0:12.2

All right. Today we have another special guest.

0:15.8

Super special. We're thrilled to welcome someone who actually I have known for, hmm,

0:25.8

let me think about more than 40 years, maybe close to 50.

0:32.6

Have you known each other that long?

0:35.8

Yes. It's crazy.

0:38.6

Okay. Well, introduce our guest first.

0:41.6

Yes. Okay. The wonderful Kate Bondstein, a legend and icon in the LBGTQ community.

0:53.2

And someone like I said, who I have known for many decades, too many decades.

0:58.2

Okay. I think he left a letter out, didn't he?

1:01.2

Kate, you need to keep going.

1:02.7

How you doing?

1:04.0

Oh, there's letters added every day. You can leave them out. You can add them in.

1:09.2

You never want to say it.

1:10.8

Okay.

1:13.2

All right. So how do you guys welcome? Welcome to the show, Kate.

1:16.3

Thank you.

1:16.8

And so tell, so how do you guys know each other?

1:19.2

Okay. From the ship. I think we first met on the ship when you were on the Apollo with Elram Hubbard.

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