Trans rocker Laura Jane Grace sets birth certificate on fire in North Carolina
Laura Jane Grace is saying a fiery goodbye to gender.
On Sunday night, the trans lead singer of punk band Against Me! burned her birth certificate during a show in Durham, North Carolina, to protest the state's controversial HB2 legislation.
Grace set the certificate on fire as a symbol against the bill, shouting "Goodbye, gender!"
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“The way you affect change is by empowering the grassroots movement,” Grace told the crowd, according to the Washington Post. “By empowering the people.”
HB2 is nicknamed the "bathroom bill" because, among other things, it requires trans people to use bathrooms that correspond to the gender they were assigned at birth. The U.S. Justice Department. recently deemed it a violation of civil rights.
Numerous artists have been cancelling shows in North Carolina to protest the bill, from Nick Jonas and Demi Lovato, to Pearl Jam.
At the show, Grace also saluted fellow rocker Bruce Springsteen, the Post reports, whose show cancellation in early April was seemingly the catalyst for many other performers.
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Yohana Desta was the senior film reporter for Mashable. She is a Northern Virginia native and an American University grad. She enjoys carefully curating her Instagram account and can often be found reading books, going to concerts, watching movies and learning way too much about pop culture.
