“This book is a mandatory read for anyone interested in gender identity, intellectual punk rock, or an engrossing account of a great rock and roll band, subjects that may sound mutually exclusive but here are inextricably linked. Tranny is the intimate story of Against Mes enigmatic founder, weaving the narrative of the bands history, as well as Graces. And yet, in part because it asks the question over and over, Against Me front woman Laura Jane Grace’s memoir, Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout, works. Since coming out as transgender in a 2012 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, she has become an outspoken advocate for transgender awareness. ― Paste Magazine, Best Nonfiction Books of 2016 Laura Jane Grace is a transgender musician best known as the founder, lead singer, songwriter and guitarist of the punk rock band Against Me. “Grace and co-writer Dan Ozzi spin green room drama and rock star recklessness into a gem of a rock bio that belongs on a shelf alongside Hammer of the Gods and Get in the Van. Pieced together from over 20 years’ worth of her diaries and including extracts from them Tranny, the autobiography of Against Me ’s Laura Jane Grace, is a revealing portrait of the singer which charts her lifelong struggle with gender dysphoria and how the artist formerly known as Tom Gabel dealt with it. The first thing you need to know about this memoir is that.

“A savagely candid transgender memoir, and thus far, the only quintessential text regarding Against Me!–one of the most significant punk bands of the aughts and onward.” Laura Jane Grace and Dan Ozzis Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rocks Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout. The Ocean A searing account of her search for identity and true self, TRANNY reveals the struggles and victories that Laura Jane Grace, the lead singer of. “A powerful, disarmingly honest portrait of becoming.”

“The real power of ‘Tranny’ (co-written with the journalist Dan Ozzi) comes from Grace’s journal entries, which tell the real-time story of a quest for self that winds through addiction, divorce and, ultimately, action to address the agonizing dysphoria.”

Tranny by Laura Jane Grace