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Laura Jane Grace - Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most...

Full title: "Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout"

"It began in a bedroom in Naples, Florida, when a misbehaving punk teenager named Tom Gabel, armed with nothing but an acoustic guitar and a headful of anarchist politics, landed on a riff. Gabel formed Against Me! and rocketed the band from its scrappy beginnings-banging on a drum kit made of pickle buckets-to a major-label powerhouse that critics have called this generation's The Clash.

Since its inception in 1997, Against Me! has been one of punk's most influential modern bands, but also one of its most divisive. With every notch the four-piece climbed in their career, they gained new fans while infuriating their old ones. They suffered legal woes, a revolving door of drummers, and a horde of angry, militant punks who called them "sellouts" and tried to sabotage their shows at every turn."

"But underneath the public turmoil, something much greater occupied Gabel-a secret kept for 30 years, only acknowledged in the scrawled-out pages of personal journals and hidden in lyrics. Through a troubled childhood, delinquency, and struggles with drugs, Gabel was on a punishing search for identity. Not until May of 2012 did a Rolling Stone profile finally reveal it: Gabel is a transsexual, and would from then on be living as a woman under the name Laura Jane Grace."

According to Wikipedia, Laura Jane Grace (born Thomas James Gabel in 1980)is an American musician, the founder, singer, songwriter, and guitarist of the punk rock band Against Me!. Grace also fronts the band Laura Jane Grace & The Devouring Mothers, a solo project she started in 2016. Grace is known to have been one of the first highly visible punk rock musicians to come out as transgender.

Grace experienced feelings of gender dysphoria from a young age, citing them as her "earliest memories". She publicly came out as a transgender woman in May 2012 in an article to Rolling Stone and began publicly using the name Laura Jane Grace. "Laura" is the name her mother would have chosen had she been assigned female at birth, "Jane" was selected simply because she thinks it's pretty, and "Grace" is her mother's maiden name. Grace confirmed in January 2019 that she underwent facial feminization surgery in December 2018 as part of her transition.

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