Pat Califia was born in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1954 and assigned female at birth.
25 Facts About Pat Califia
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Pat Califia grew up in Utah in a Latter-day Saint family, the eldest of six children.
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Pat Califia's father was a construction worker and his mother a housewife.
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Pat Califia has said he did not have a good childhood, claiming that his father was an angry and violent man and his mother a pious woman.
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Pat Califia recalled one incident where he told his parents he wanted to be a train engineer, and they told him he couldn't because he was a girl.
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Pat Califia came out as a lesbian in 1971 while attending college.
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Pat Califia began using the last name Califia, after the mythical female warrior Amazon.
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Pat Califia began to evade his parents, and became involved in the women's liberation and anti-war movements.
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Pat Califia was not only excluded from his nuclear family by coming out as a lesbian but lost his gay family when speaking his opinions.
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Pat Califia co-founded the first lesbian BDSM group in the United States, Samois, in 1978.
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Pat Califia began attending the University of Utah in Salt Lake City in 1971.
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Pat Califia co-founded Samois, a lesbian-feminist BDSM organization based in San Francisco that existed from 1978 to 1983, and shifted his focus to the lesbian experience of BDSM.
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In 1992, Pat Califia received the Woman of the Year award as part of the Pantheon of Leather Awards.
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Pat Califia has asserted that he 'support[s] Paidika and enjoyed working with the editors of this special issue'.
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Pat Califia has asserted that all age of consent laws should be repealed, describing pedophilia as 'erotic initiation'.
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Pat Califia was writing about queer studies and gender identity, and coming to terms with these issues on a personal level.
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In 2000 Pat Califia received the Forebear Award as part of the Pantheon of Leather Awards.
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Pat Califia was nominated for the Lambda Literary Awards for his short-story collection, Macho Sluts, his novel, Doc and Fluff: The Dystopian Tale of a Girl and Her Biker, and a compilation of his columns, The Advocate Adviser.
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From 2001 to 2011, Pat Califia was licensed in California as a marriage and family therapist.
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Pat Califia is an inductee of the Society of Janus Hall of Fame.
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Pat Califia has said that, since the 1990s, he has had fibromyalgia.
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Pat Califia has said he incorporates elements of Mormonism in his approach to life.
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In 1999, Pat Califia decided to begin hormone replacement therapy as a part of his transition.
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Pat Califia hesitated because his career had been built around a reputation as a lesbian writer and activist.
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Pat Califia had entered age-related perimenopause when he began his transition.