If you are unfamiliar with punk rocker Laura Jane Grace you really need to check out the MTV interview she does called 'A Life Unburdened'. It's the first interview she gives since announcing that she's transgender. Done with living with the assigned gender and name Tommy Gabel she was born with, in 2009 with a wife and new baby Laura makes the incredibly hard decision to come out. You really need to check this out.
I was really, honestly excited. When I first told my wife, immediately it was just like this huge weight being lifted off my shoulders, and subsequently every other person that I've told, that feeling was more and more there," Laura says. "I've been completely blown away by the majority of people's reactions. … They've been more than respectful and more than supportive, and it's been, for me, completely humbling.
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