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PostSubject: It takes guts for a transgender woman to take on punk rock   It takes guts for a transgender woman to take on punk rock Icon_minitimeFri Feb 07, 2014 9:18 pm

It is hard to imagine a much more challenging environment for a transgender woman than the posturing, bravado-soaked world of American punk rock.

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For the male lead singer of a successful punk band to announce via Rolling Stone magazine he wanted to be known as a woman and had begun hormone replacement therapy - as Against Me! founder, singer and songwriter Laura Jane Grace did in 2012 - seems just about the gutsiest thing a person could do. The punk ethos personified, in a way.

Except that Grace's extraordinary journey - writ large on the band's sixth studio album, Transgender Dysphoria Blues - is more important than any narrative in the constructed existence of a rock star. Neither the decision to change or to keep playing music were optional, she chides us gently.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/against-me-amazing-grace-20140206-322bs.html#ixzz2sh1tjU00
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