It’s part self-love, part letting the haters know: “Trying to figure out my anatomy/You ain’t built for this/Eat your broccoli.”Īn accompanying video starring Andrew Garfield as a transgender woman was criticized for the band not having cast a trans actress instead, but the message of pride and self-acceptance stands out from this award-winning Canadian band. Jay Boogie “got this gown on with a smile on” on this slow groove that has the queer gender-fluid rapper intoning “I’m so precious” over and over for the chorus.
“Here come Dick, he’s wearing a skirt/Here comes Jane, you know she’s sporting a chain/Same hair, revolution/Same build, evolution./Tomorrow who’s gonna fuss/And they love each other so/Androgynous/Closer than you know.” Punk band The Replacements often performed this song on stage donning dresses, and Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace gave it her own spin with Jett and Miley Cyrus for a charity performance in 2015.Ī true anthem of loving oneself, openly queer and gender fluid indie star Ezra Furman’s 2015 single has the vocalist singing “Your body is yours at the end of the day / Don’t let the hateful take it away / We want to be free and we go our own way.” In press, Furman has referred to “Body Was Made” as a “protest song,” and a reclamation of one’s own identity. Originally released in 1984, this track has been covered by the likes of Crash Test Dummies and Joan Jett who share an affinity for its message. “She says it helps their relationship /She says a change is as good as a rest /And their friends finally coming ’round to their way of thinking/She wears the trousers and smokes the pipe /And he washes up/ She helps him wipe/Cause when he puts on that dress/He looks like a princess.” The band followed this up eight years later with “Out of the Wardrobe,” a homophobic track (even using the word “faggot” in one of its lines), but worth noting for its story about a trans woman who comes out to her wife, that ultimately has a happy ending. Lo lo lo lo Lola,” it’s with affection rather than disdain for his love interest. It’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world, Except for Lola. When Kinks singer Ray Davies croons, “Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls. The 1970 song “Lola” has been debated as transphobic, but others see it as a love story between a cis man and the trans woman he unexpectedly falls for. 11 Transgender & Non-Binary Musicians You Need to Know