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”Don’t reject people who are willing to march, sing and stand with you just because we don’t perfectly see eye-to-eye,” Snider writes. ”We are still your allies.”

”Most importantly and above all else, I support those struggling with their sexual identity while enduring constant hostility and those whose path leads them to reassignment surgery,” Stanley’s new statement reads.

Danica Roem, who is the lead vocalist of thrash metal band Cab Ride Home, is also the first openly transgender person to be elected (and re-elected) to a state legislature.

”Most of you know me from my time as Vis Crom of Absu, even though I probably didn’t look like a Melissa then. I am a transgender woman,” she wrote on Facebook today. She later said ”fucked up transphobia from my bandmates” led to the end of Absu.

In protest of President Donald Trump’s declaration that transgender people will no longer be able to serve in the military, Bandcamp is donating 100% of its share of all sales today (August 4) to the Transgender Law Center…

Against Me! put out six studio albums in the past 12 years, and arguably just keep getting better. Brooklyn’s Life of Agony put out classic metalcore album “River Runs Red” in 1993, two more albums before 1998, and then just continued to reunite every so often without new material, not counting their short-lived attempt at a comeback with their mostly-ignored new album on Epic in 2005…

Against Me! singer Laura Jane Grace (formerly Tom Gabel) came out as transgender back in 2012 and has since released a new AM! album that often touches on the matter, Transgender Dysphoria Blues, and toured extensively in support of it…

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Following in the footsteps of Life of Agony’s Keith Caputo (who now goes by Mina), Against Me! frontman Tom Gabel is coming out as transgender…