Rock Star Comes Out Transgender

Posted By: Paul Morris ` · 5/9/2012 1:42:00 PM

I'll be as respectful as is possible with this story but it comes as a bit of a shock to hear that Against Me! lead singer and guitarist Tom Gabel has come out transgendered. To our knowlege this is a first. This is a brave and gutsy thing to do. Gabel who has dealt privately with gender dysphoria for years, will soon begin the process of transition, by taking hormones and undergoing electrolysis treatments.

If you're fan, it was all there in plain sight 5 years ago on the last track of their breakthrough album New Wave in the song "The Ocean":

If I could have chosen,
I would have been born a woman.
My mother once told me
she would have named me Laura.
I would grow up to be strong and beautiful like her.

Sure enough Gabel will eventually take on the name Laura Jane Grace and will remained married to his wife.

Wow

Here's Tom Gabel running and taking a beating in the video for  "I Was A Teenage Anarchist"

  

 

Here is Tom in transition.

 

 

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Thanks Shep!!!

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  1. punkis maximus posted on 05/11/2012 08:00 AM
    I really wonder about people sometimes - not Tom in this instance - but the "doctors" who do gender re-assignmnet surgery. A man who undergoes this surgery will never menstruate, and will never give birth, so is he a woman, or just a mutilated man? Once the operation takes place, there's no "fixing" it. So why not focus on helping the patient with the issues they have with who they are, instead of profitting off their pain?
    That's the real story here; the scumbags who will do anything to make a buck. As a fan of Against Me!, I hope Tom has a fast recovery and finds the happiness that has eluded him so far. Shame on Rolling Stone magazine for being just like the scumbag doctors.
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