Against Me!'s Tom Gabel speaks on being transgender [BARF]

CNN ^ | May 9th, 2012 | Denise Quan

[Third Person]

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Against Me! singer Tom Gabel speaks out on being transgender, and shares her plans to transition from a man to a woman. The punk rocker has been privately struggling with gender dysphoria, and will soon start taking hormones and receiving electrolysis treatments, Rolling Stone reports. Gabel is the highest profile musician to ever come out as transgender, although not the first overall, as MTV notes, and she tells Rolling Stone that's precisely the reason she's publicly sharing her story. Prior to talking to Rolling Stone, Gabel had only revealed her plans to transition to "a handful" of family members and friends. "I'm going to have embarrassing moments," Gabel tells Rolling Stone in an issue that arrives on newsstands Friday. "And that won't be fun. But that's part of what talking to you is about - is hoping people will understand, and hoping they'll be fairly kind." The scariest part of the process, Gabel says, was anticipating how her wife Heather would react. "But she's been super-amazing and understanding," the musician, who plans to eventually take the name Laura Jane Grace, tells the mag. The couple, who have a young daughter, intend to stay married. A rep for the band tells CNN that Gabel isn't issuing a statement at this time.

[Third Person]

How to backdoor [!] the gay marriage ban... Marry a woman when you're a man [or vice versa], and then have a sex change! And don't forget to have a child with your wife before your sex change!

The attack is in full swing. The perverse is the new normal.

Full interview: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tom-gabel-of-against-me-comes-out-as-transgender-20120508#ixzz1uLRsNnkv

[Third Person]

Full interview: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tom-gabel-of-against-me-comes-out-as-transgender-20120508#ixzz1uLRsNnkv

[Psycho_Bunny]

Shut up and sing.

[dfwgator]

My momma talkin' to me tryin' to tell me how to live
But I don't listen to her 'cause my head is like a sieve
My daddy, he disowned me 'cause I wear my sister's clothes
He caught me in the bathroom with a pair of pantyhose

My basketball coach, he done kicked me off the team
For wearin' high-heel sneakers and actin' like a queen

The world's comin' to an end, I don't even care
As long as I can have a limo and my orange hair
And it don't bother me if people think I'm funny
'Cause I'm a big rock star and I'm makin' lots of money money, money, money, money, money, money
Ahhh! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...
I'm so bloody rich! Ha ha ha ha I own apartment buildings and shopping centers!
Ha ha ha ha And I only know three chords! Ha ha ha ha

[republicangel]

I just wonder if once he starts taking the female hormones, he/she says never mind. You women are crazy! I’m in the mdst of these blasted hot flashes and they suck.

[Sacajaweau]

The ultimate plan....soliciting your grandkids and mine with “0” reprecussions.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Hysterically funny movie!

[GeronL]

You are male and you will always be a male no matter how you mutilate yourself. This is pure science, by the way, not some bigoted opinion.

This person has a mental illness in my opinion.

[GeronL]

That reminds me of the lesbian couple in Kalipornia who has had their boy on sex change drugs from around age 9... the boy is not going to be allowed to ‘change his mind’ because he probably never had much of a say in the first place.

Pure child abuse.

[SoKatt]

I agree. Painting stripes on a horse does not change it into a zebra.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Shouldn’t this be a Thomasina now?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Gakkeroni. Lezzes are men haters.

[Ha Ha Thats Very Logical]

Wow! I like that band, and he’s not someone I would have pegged as a woman-to-be. Here’s a vid of them covering a Replacements song:

http://youtu.be/mAkSIJ9BSi8

[GeronL]

BUMP to that.

by the way, I have no idea who Tom Gabel is.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Shows to go ya, that you can’t tell what crazy and sick and devilish illusions a person may be dragging along.

I come more from the “they’re more to be pitied than censured” school — so long as they don’t push the sickness upon other people and insist others comfortably accommodate it. They should be still urged and offered every help to shuck off these illusions.

[Williams]

I really think the gay movement has discredited itself with “LGBT”. Even IF you accept gay marriage, etc., doesn’t the support for bisexualism sanction orgies, threesomes, polygamy? And even if I accept gays have always been around, or the existence of a gay gene, how can anyone justify transgenderism?

It’s plainly an “anything goes” movement.

[CatherineofAragon]

9 years old? Oh, geez, that makes me so sad. Jesus, please come-—this world is ill.

The doctors who humor these people in their mental illness and mutilate their bodies should be locked up for life.

[GeronL]

adults who do it to themselves are bad enough, doing it to the children is unforgivable.

[GeronL]

The LGBT stuff is mainly pushed toward kids. It is one of the main topics of programs on Teen Nick and all that.

[RansomOttawa]

Against Me! singer Tom Gabel speaks out on being transgender, and shares her plans to transition from a man to a woman.

Wait . . . so it hasn't even happened yet, and he's already a she?

Am I allowed to declare myself a girl and demand that everyone refer to me as "she" and "her," despite all physical, genetic, and psychological evidence to the contrary?