Tom Gabel, front-man of punk rock band Against Me!, announces sex change

Musician Tom Gabel of Against Me! performs at the Greek Theatre on August 6, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. / Getty

(AP) NEW YORK - Tom Gabel, the lead singer of punk rock band Against Me!, says he's becoming a woman.

The 31-year-old tells Rolling Stone that as a kid he felt disconnected from his body and has a condition called gender dysphoria. He plans to take hormones and undergo electrolysis. He also is considering gender reassignment surgery.

Says Gabel: "Growing up, my experience with transsexualism was nothing but shame."

Gabel says his new name will be Laura Jane Grace. He says he's not attracted to men and will still be married to his wife. They have a 2-year-old daughter.

Against Me! is best known for the song "Thrash Unreal." The group will hit the road for its tour with The Cult later this month.

The June issue of Rolling Stone hits newsstands Friday.

[Jesus_to_ground_control]

Stories About Transgendering *

Taliban Elder: Sometimes a Taliban man will fall in love with another man for life and not know it because of the burqa.;

Helen: I can't put on a dress without thinking that I transgendered somehow!;

Pope Eggs Benedict: Jesus said at a wedding party: Blessed are the transgendered, for they also have turned water into wine!;

Romney: Ate a transgendered hotdog the other day at the baseball game. Couldn't tell the difference with the real thing!;

Letterman: Reason No.1 to "Why would a man want a sex change?": Because the men's restrooms don't carry tampons for his hemorrhoids.;

Dr.Ozz: As you see my golf clubs are protected with discarded nut sacks or scrota's from successful sex change operations. The black one is for my number one driver, the pink one is for my putter, the yellow one is for my umbrella, the...

*I am just kidding, but I sincerely say good luck to Tom and others with their new lives and identities.

[knucklecheese]

I sure hope he finds a way to attract enough attention to himself before it's too late. That's really what this is all about.

[D-Waarheid]

Stars, esp punk rockers are renown for drug use, hence the hallucination of homosexuality and sex changes !

[danskinok]

Nobody can comment on this intelligently unless you have either been there or the capacity to empathize. Just go about your humdrum lives and I pity you for never breathing the complexity of truly being alive. No one takes this type of step without knowing deeply about it's consequences and thats a heroic decision regardless.

[vielmann]

People with gender disforia should try to adapt to the situation, especially if they don't feel same sex attraction. The problem is no amount of surgery or hormone treatments will make him like a woman. It just won't happen. I've seen too many who have gone through this, and they look freakish by nature. I could understand it if one truly has a body that could go to the opposite gender, but this isn't his case at all.

[Think-It-Threw]

I don't think they're even know for that song. The headline might as well be "Little known, small town group has disoriented singer".

At least his band can pay him 17% less now...

[jjfullerton]

mORON

[jjfullerton]

SICK IDIOT

[chris_bray]

Just another fruitcake who has been eating food with too many hormones. He should have been eating whole grain organics instead. This is news? Next....

[Ourdoc1]

Hmm a rocker taking after Ted Nugent...

[shaunapple]

We are who we are. Let us be.

Shaun Apple