New issue of Rolling Stone dropped today featuring a story on Against Me!'s frontman's decision to begin procedures and identification as a transgender woman, Laura Jane Grace. In a follow-up interview, the contributor who wrote the story, Josh Eells was asked rather matter-of-factly why this is news. To paraphrase his response, he said it pertained primarily to the bands image of hard punk rock music being seen as very manly. Her voice is very gravely and raw, often screaming lyrics of revolution and anti-establishment to a vast yet tight following of fervent fans. It will come to a shock to many of them as it did to me.
I may never understand the feeling of gender dysphoria, being caught between two genders not knowing where to fit, but if Laura Jane has finally found her place then way to go. Be who you are, whoever you feel that is. And don't let anyone ever tell you different.
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