He was good friends with Kathleen Hannah of the riot grrrl movement, was a punk at heart who poked fun at the masculine gender expectations that he didn't care to uphold, wrote some really dark songs like "rape me" and "pennyroyal tea" about trying to understand the female condition... I guess that automatically makes him an honorary woman, or something.

I was a big fan of his. But to be honest, if he were alive today it wouldn't really surprise me if he announced he was trans. He obviously did have some deep issues with his own identity and wallowed in his depression and self-pity. It's not unlike the kinds of men you see online today, whether they're denying their own existence as sexed beings through a trans fantasy, or a mgtow incel. It's also a kind of pseudo-suicide of the male ego. They're all pathetic broken men who lack the ability to respect themselves, or the balls to pull the trigger.