Twitter User Claims Nirvana's Kurt Cobain Was A Trans Girl, Sparking Platform-Wide Debate

Twitter is reacting with a predictable mixture of rage and bewilderment after someone made a post suggesting that legendary Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, who took his own life in 1994, was a "trans girl."

The tweet was posted by user @MagsVisaggs on Sunday, resulting in a lot of people discussing the idea, with over 3,000 quote-retweets in just two days. The majority of reactions seem critical of the poster for seemingly pulling the theory out of thin air. Many are claiming that assigning gender identities to people, especially those who are dead, is harmful to the LGBTQ+ community, suggesting nobody should have their gender assigned to them. Others took the time to make memes and jokes about the situation in typical Twitter fashion.

Although criticism has been perhaps the loudest response to the tweet at a glance, @MagsVisaggs, real name Magdalene Visaggio (a comic book writer), has also garnered a lot of support for her theory. One supporter, @JosieStarGirl, posted "proof" of Cobain's transness in the form of rough lyrical notes for Nirvana's song "All Apologies," pointing to the removed lyrics "let me grow some breasts" and "I am not a man" as evidence of his hidden gender identity. Another user wrote about how Cobain "wanted people to figure it out," mentioning interview clips where he says he wears dresses around the house, paints his nails and feels "alienated from masculinity." Of course, none of this is explicit proof of Cobain being trans.

In other Nirvana-related news, a set of official Nirvana NFTs comprising of unseen photographs of the band is set to drop on February 20th, what would have been Cobain's 55th birthday. Similar to the "Cobain is trans" theory, the NFT announcement has riled up more than a few on social media who suggest NFTs are exactly the opposite sort of thing Cobain would support.