By BRIAN GIFFIN
THE singer and guitarist of The Mark of Cain, one of Australia’s hardest hitting heavy rock acts, has come out as trans.
Writing as JRS on the band’s Facebook page late on Monday night, the 63-year old detailed a lifelong struggle with gender dysphoria going back to the age of eight.
In the post, the singer explains she now goes by the name Josie Scott and “fit(s) within the paradigm of a trans woman.”
She notes that The Mark of Cain’s visceral, existentialist 1996 masterpiece Ill at Ease was a “key note address” on her internal struggle and conflict.
The band’s aggressive, “testoterone-driven” sound and intense style was, she writes, something of a “beard” but was also “generated from my internal rage about my own dissatisfaction about myself and the paralysis I felt in being unable to live as me.”
Scott notes that seeing young people bravely embracing who they are and “living authentically” has helped her turn a corner.
The lengthy post has attracted almost four thousand likes and hundreds of positive and supportive comments from fans and colleagues. It ends by saying the band with continue to write, record and perform as before.
The Mark of Cain were booked to perform at last weekend’s Froth and Fury Fest in Adelaide but withdrew for an undisclosed reason.
