Against Me! - "Transgender Dysphoria Blues" is the Most Important Punk Album of the Century

It takes an incredible amount of courage to come out as a transperson, even in punk rock.  They went from anarchist folk/punk to burned-out, reactionary, generic pop punk to intense, emotionally naked Motley Crue-influenced rock about the singer's experiences with gender identity (which even involved surgery and hormone treatment).  Say what you want about the lack of ideological consistency in their early days and reactionary nature of their first two mainstream album, but there's nothing more punk than what they're doing doing right now.  Even the content of Rise Against's mainstream albums pale in comparison to this.  No one has ever played songs about this on top 40 radio and The Tonight Show With David Letterman.  If you consider yourself a punk, but are unwilling to support them for being on a mainstream label and playing a different style of music than they used to, fuck you and your hypocrisy.

Here are the lyrics to the song linked above:


All dressed up and nowhere to go
You're walking the streets all alone
Another night to wish that you could forget
Making yourself up as you go along

Who's gonna take you home tonight?
Who's gonna take you home?
Does god bless your transsexual heart?
True trans soul rebel

Yet to be born, you're already dead
You sleep with a gun beside you in bed
Follow it through to the obvious end
Slit your veins wide open, you bleed it out
Who's gonna take you home tonight?
Who's gonna take you home?
Does god bless your transsexual heart?
True trans soul rebel

You should have been a mother
You should have been a wife
You should have been gone from here years ago
You should be living a different life

Who's gonna take you home tonight?
Who's gonna take you home?
Does god bless your transsexual heart?
True trans soul rebel

- "True Trans Soul Rebel"