nprfreshair: For Laura Jane Grace, Punk Was A Form Of ArmorGrowing up, punk rocker Laura Jane Grace
nprfreshair: For Laura Jane Grace, Punk Was A Form Of ArmorGrowing up, punk rocker Laura Jane Grace always felt conflicted about gender. She tells Fresh Air’s Terry Gross that she felt like two “twin souls” were warring inside of her, fighting for control. “I thought that I was quite possibly schizophrenic,” she says.It wasn’t until Grace was 19 that she heard the term “transgender” and had a context for what she was feeling. In 2012, at the age of 31, she transitioned from male to female.Grace, who is the founder of the band Against Me!, writes about the transition and how it affected her wife and daughter, as well as her stage persona, in the new memoir Tranny.Overall, she says, the transition put her “more in touch” with herself: “It just, like, overall, all-around, made me a more real, more there, present and comfortable-with-myself person. It broke down a wall.”Photo by Ryan Russell -- source link