Since its inception in 1997, Against Me! Not only has it been one of the most influential punk bands in the world, but also one of the most controversial. Throughout their career towards success, they have been conquering new fans while raising blisters among the old guard who supported them from the beginning. They got into trouble with the law, changed drums repeatedly, and faced a furious horde of punks who called them "sell-out" and sabotaged their concerts.
But, beyond all this, something much more important disturbed Tom Gabel, the founder of the group; A secret that for thirty years he only revealed in the pages of his diary and hinted at in some of the lyrics of his songs. After a difficult childhood and delinquent adolescence marked by drug use, Gabel continued to struggle to find her own identity, until in May 2012 she revealed it to everyone in an interview for Rolling Stone: Gabel declared to be transgender, and since that day she lives as a woman under the name of 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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