Last month Against Me! frontman Tom Gabel announced his plan to transition to female, having lived with gender dysphoria for much of his life. On Friday, the singer made her live debut as Laura Jane Grace at a San Diego show opening for the Cult. According to Rolling Stone, Grace is a few weeks into her hormone replacement therapy, and the band performed a bunch of new songs slated for Against Me!’s next LP, Transgender Dysphoria Blues. Watch fan-shot video of “Don’t Lose Touch” from the concert below.
[Photo via Rolling Stone.]
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“Transgender Dysphoria Blues”… nice.
“‘I was worried that some people expected me to come out looking like Little Bo Peep or something,’ Grace said after the show while hanging out at the merch table with her wife, Heather. (They’re doing the tour as a family; their toddler daughter, Evelyn, was sleeping with a nanny in the tour bus.)”
That pretty much sums up my reaction — Neither shocked nor really expecting much of a transition so quickly. I guess?
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Not sure what’s so bad about being more excited about Daft Punk recording than this.
Possibly the fact that you commented on it in a fairly cavalier, dickish way. Go ahead, be excited about Daft Punk. But going out of your way to say “This story doesn’t matter to me as much as other things” is pointless and serves only negative purposes.
No jokes or snarky comments. Good luck, Grace.
Cher has been playing gigs as a woman for decades.
Best comment ever anywhere
This may make me look transphobic, but Transgender Dysphoria Blues is a really crappy title for a record.
Typical band dynamics.. The lead vocalist being the only one who has a say in the name of the album.
Lead vocalist/songwriter/creative force/ only member of the original band usually has more say than the goons he hired to surround him, yep.
That’s cool.. three dudes spend years of their lives mastering their instruments only to be dismissed as random “goons” by some dude on the internet, who has no idea what the creative process is in the band is and about the presence/lack of a songwriting collaboration.
Good performance, I guess?
I see what you did there.
what you did there.
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yeah, that old hormone replacement therapy trick. works every time.
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You do know that lots of artists write about stuff in their lives, right? And probably if you were going through a major life transition that you might find writing about it cathartic, right?
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Still makes absolutely no fucking sense.
It is good timing for the new album coming out. Every band tries to strike the iron when its hot. This is their lives. She would be stupid not to mark her historical life changing event with an album both artistically and professionally. That doesn’t mean its any less genuine. Just because they have a lot of publicity doesn’t mean its a stunt.
That’s right. She pulled “Transgender”, “Dysphoria”, and “Blues” out of a hat and decided to get a sex change to sell more albums. That is the most logical explanation.
Okay, okay, good points people. I stand corrected. Obviously it makes sense to write about what you’re going through personally.
Some girls in the audience are singing WAY off key at the beginning of the clip.
This is the rare concert video where you actually get to see the person with the horrible voice singing along.
The current phase of hormone replacement therapy has Tom Gabel looking like a member of Poison.
I thought that was a picture of Steven Tyler after a couple rounds of testosterone therapy.
Curious to see where this goes. Can’t imagine that singing voice coming out of a woman. I would imagine this process would eventually drastically change that no?
Yes. You need to read more.
This has been bugging me– isn’t the condition that afflicts transgendered individuals known as “GENDER dysphoria”? It is, right?
(this was not supposed to be a reply to Jon Boriss, sorry)
No, the voice won’t change unless she makes a concerted effort to alter it.
Dude, what are you talking about? If you are a guy and you take female hormones, it will alter your voice.
Oh yeah, and especially if you have a sex-change operation…
No, Jacob is right. After going through a male puberty, the vocal cords become lengthened. Taking estrogen won’t magically shorten the vocal cords as if male puberty didn’t occur.
This band would be better if the singer was a chick. Oh, what’s that you say?
justin bieber will be the next
This is one of the best Publicity Stunts ever. Transgender Dysphoria Blues, is going to sale like hotcakes to fans and people in the gay, lesbian, and transgender community are going to buy it just because of Tom Gabel’s alleged sex-change. After about a year or so he’ll come back as a full blown man.