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| pronouns=[[he/him]]<ref name="Williams">{{Cite web |title=Listen to Trans Singer-Songwriter Jana Hunter of Lower Dens' Summer of Pride Mix: 'There Is a Place Here, Even For You' |last=Williams |first=Nick |work=Billboard |date=16 August 2019 |access-date=21 May 2020 |url= https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/pride/8527644/listen-trans-artist-lower-dens-jana-hunter-summer-of-pride-playlist-interview}}</ref>

| gender=[[genderfluid]]<ref name="Hunter2015">{{Cite web |title=What It's Like to Be a Female Musician When You Don't Identify as a Woman |last=Hunter |first=Jana |work=Cosmopolitan |date=10 April 2015 |access-date=21 May 2020 |url= https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/music/a38918/jana-hunter-lower-dens-essay/}}</ref>

'''Jana Hunter''' is a Baltimore-based songwriter and musician. He has stated that the characters in his songs are all [[genderless]].<ref name="Mason">{{Cite web |title=Jana Hunter Of Lower Dens Embraces Synth-Pop, Self-Expression |author=Mason, Amelia |work=WBUR |date=11 June 2015 |access-date=21 May 2020 |url= https://www.wbur.org/artery/2015/06/11/lower-dens}}</ref>

"I insisted on being referred to and treated as and ''being'' a boy at my Christian preschool, at our church, around our populous extended family, and in every public arena. What made it worse for my parents was that I did look and act like a boy and many people assumed I was a boy and were just confused about why I was announcing it until they figured it out and then they immediately let my parents know exactly what they thought of them with a pair of razor sharp dagger eyes. I am quite certain it was awful for my parents."<ref name="Hunter2014">{{Cite web |title=ON PRIDE (and gender) |author=Hunter, Jana |work=LOWER DENS |date=1 July 2014 |access-date=21 May 2020 |url= https://lowerdens.tumblr.com/post/90448691182/on-pride-and-gender}}</ref>

"It's very difficult to process discrimination towards oneself and at the same time, it can be difficult, even in the face of it, to recognize it as such. Like, is somebody staring at me because I have something leaking out of a hole in my face, or is somebody staring at me because they can't identify a gender in me and that makes them uncomfortable? I don't know, and part of me wishes that I did't even wonder. And that's about as far as I get with it these days. I don’t ask or confront. I just have other things I'm interested in doing besides that. It takes a lot of energy. It’s too exhausting to confront."<ref name="Weiss">{{Cite web |title=ARTIST INTERVIEW: Jana Hunter |last=Weiss |first=Suzannah |work=Audiofemme |date=20 February 2017 |access-date=21 May 2020 |url= https://www.audiofemme.com/artist-interview-jana-hunter-2/}}</ref>