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(#22) Kim Petras
- Pop, EDM, Dance-pop, Electropop, Synthpop
Pop star Kim Petras became the world's youngest transgender woman after undergoing gender reassignment surgery when she was 16. "I was asked if I feel like a woman now – but the truth is I have always felt like a woman – I just ended up in the wrong body," she said after the procedure.
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(#6) Richard O'Brien
Richard O'Brien – who wrote and co-starred in The Rocky Horror Picture Show – has identified as transgender. O'Brien said, "I think of myself as Richard. I think of myself as a third sex and it makes things easier. I’m somewhere in the middle. My wife and children love me and celebrate me for who I am."
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(#16) Eli Conley
Musician Eli Conley stresses the importance of intersectionality in social justice. "I think it’s important to remember that we all have a choice. In this moment, will we white LGBTQ folks focus only on the issues that impact us directly?
Or will we stand with Black people and other people of color for an end to anti-Black racism and white supremacy in all its forms, understanding that no one is free while others are oppressed?" Conley said in a 2015 interview.
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(#12) T. Thomason
T. Thomason, born Molly Thomason, said, "I do think it’s important that there’s more queer visibility in the music industry. … There’s a mentality now: It’s time, because we’re saying it’s time, and we’re out now – deal with it and be respectful."
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(#18) Skylar Kergil
"Hi, I'm Skylar Kergil, a 24-year-old transgender guy from Boston, MA," Skylar Kergil says on his YouTube page. "I've been documenting my life and transition from female to male since I was 17 in early 2009!"
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(#1) Laura Jane Grace
- Folk music, Alternative rock, Punk rock, Folk punk
In 2016, Against Me! singer Laura Jane Grace burned her birth certificate on stage in North Carolina to protest transgender discrimination. She came out as a transgender women in a Rolling Stone interview in 2012 and released her memoir, Tranny, in 2016.
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Queer music has changed dramatically. In the past, pop music stars we are all familiar with usually came out in the middle, the end of their careers, or after having great success. However, famous singers admit they are transgender on the media that will no longer be a sensational news headline nowadays, this is what should be. Transgender musicians speak out for more people with their unique music.
A number of great transgender musicians demonstrate their talents in countless genres and express their own life insights in the process. The random tool lists 23 famous transgender singers that can prove achievements have nothing to do with gender.
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