This star no longer wants to pretend.
Gavin Russom, who is the synth player and keyboardist for LCD Soundsystem, is a transgender woman. She came out in an interview with Pitchfork on Thursday, July 6. The 43 year-old musician can't see herself spending another year pretending. Russom says that "it's time to become a whole person."
The musician tried coming out in her early twenties and would dress feminine. However, due to mistreatment and violence, she shied away from it. "Sometimes, if they happened to be walking behind me at enough distance where they would read me as feminine, they would catcall me. Getting closer to me, they would see me as masculine and then become very angry. I was assaulted on a number of occasions."
She admitted that her troubles with transitioning led to addiction and substance abuse. She also struggled with self doubt and also dealing with her own transphobia. "I experienced trans-misogyny towards myself. But there's also something wonderful about that too, because it felt like now I could see it. And if I can see it, I can accept it and say unfortunately, this is the reality of living in a dysfunctional culture."
Russom took time to focus on herself and her health and is now in a stable moment in her life. She began transitioning at the beginning of this year. Although Russom is transgender, she wants to keep her name.
LCD Soundsystem's album, American Dream, will be released on September 1 and their tour kicks off on October 17 in Washington D.C.
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