Famous Transgender Singers Everyone Should Know

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.

Cliks vocalist and guitarist Lucas Silveira is the first transgender male to be signed to a major record label. "Being a person who identifies as a male in a physicality [that is] still female, and then transitioning to a male, was a very interesting thing,” he said in an interview.

“I still believe that somewhere in my psyche there is a place that has been conditioned and socialized to be female."

Singer and actress Romy Haag – who has appeared in such films as Mascara and House of Boys – was born Edouard Frans Verba in the Netherlands. Besides her own musical and film career, Haag is known for her relationship to David Bowie.

"Everyone is uncomfortable with gender. It's an uncomfortable thing, especially if you are born in a body where you have to think about it all the time," said hip-hop artist Katastrophe in an interview.

"Sometimes I feel the reason I was born is to make it something comfortable for me, but also to make it comfortable for the rest of the world."

Jessica 6 singer Nomi Ruiz said that it can be difficult to be a transgender woman in the music business. "There’s always discrimination in every industry, especially the music industry," she said. "But at the end of the day, you can’t deny talent."

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."