Editing Dave Carter (section)

== Transgender identity ==
In 2000 Carter revealed to Grammer that he had struggled with [[gender dysphoria]] since his early teen years.<ref name="NPR-20120719">{{cite news |title=Tracy Grammer On World Cafe |url=https://www.npr.org/2012/07/19/157047115/tracy-grammer-on-world-cafe |work=[[NPR]] |agency=[[WXPN-FM]] |date=July 19, 2012 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="SFNM-20130412">{{cite web |last1=Kohlhaase |first1=Bill |title=Road yet taken: Singer Tracy Grammer forges her own path |url=http://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/music/in_concert/article_0ff77864-a2e5-11e2-bd08-0019bb30f31a.html |website=[[The Santa Fe New Mexican]] |language=en |date=April 12, 2013 |location=Santa Fe, NM }}</ref> Grammer later said, "... he was exploring a gender change and that altered the dynamics of our off-stage relationship. It actually made things quite difficult for us personally, but anyone on the outside would not have known that. It was just a process that we were going through and that, thankfully, we reconciled with by the time he died."<ref name="SAFL-20080912">{{cite news |last1=Pound |first1=Kara |title=An interview with folkstress Tracy Grammer |url=http://staugustine.com/stories/091208/compass_021.shtml |work=[[The St. Augustine Record]] |issn=1041-1577 |location=St. Augustine, FL |url-status=dead |date=September 12, 2008 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402115016/http://staugustine.com/stories/091208/compass_021.shtml#.VR0tBufgpEY |archivedate=2015-04-02}}</ref>

Of this timeframe, Grammer said: "... We even had a whole plan for the unveiling. He was going to release one more manly ‘Cowboy Dave’ album, and I would introduce myself as a solo artist. Then he would go change and we would come back as an all-girl band, calling ourselves The Butterfly Conservatory. He would be she and that would be that."<ref name="SFNM-20130412" />