![]() ![]() ![]() “True Trans Soul Rebel” thrashes like some of the best radio-made ’90s rock, but beneath the hard-guitar guise is an emotional undercurrent so heartfelt and raw – especially the verse suggesting suicide – that Grace’s pain becomes ours. “We can’t choose how we’re made,” Grace insists on the title track, venting frustrations over the gritty track – and then recognizing the one person who truly gets her. An open diary exploring internal and external struggles with identity – but also alienation, acceptance and love, fear and loss – the complex, often-tremendous Transgender Dysphoria Blues triumphs at acknowledging one’s differences and the power that can be had when we embrace them. Can you imagine, in the late ’90s when this punk-rock quartet from Florida first rocked its way to notoriety, something as transgender-focused as this?Īgainst Me!’s sixth release is a deeply personal outpouring as necessary – both to now-frontwoman Laura Jane Grace and the band’s fans – as it is empowering. ![]() The remarkable thing about Transgender Dysphoria Blues– besides, of course, it being an emancipating declaration of independence – is that it even exists. ![]()
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