{{Infobox song | name = True Trans | cover = Against Me True Trans cover.jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = Against Me! | album = Transgender Dysphoria Blues | released = July 12, 2013 | recorded = | studio = | venue = | genre = Folk punk | length = 6:08 | label = Total Treble Music | writer = Laura Jane Grace | producer = Against Me! | prev_title = Russian Spies / Occult Enemies | prev_year = 2011 | next_title = Unconditional Love | next_year = 2014 }}
'''''True Trans''''' is an acoustic EP by American punk rock band Against Me!. The band released it as a digital single on July 12, 2013 through their label, Total Treble Music. The two songs on the EP were made available via an email download link to those who preordered tickets for Laura Jane Grace's August 2013 tour of the U.S. East Coast. It was later distributed as a 7".
The EP was released for free, for a limited time, on Against Me!'s website on July 15, 2013.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.againstme.net/true-trans-ep-free-download-1/ |title=True Trans Acoustic EP – Free Download |publisher=Against Me! |date=2013-07-15 |accessdate=2013-09-07 |archive-date=2019-02-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212011904/http://www.againstme.net/true-trans-ep-free-download-1/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/LauraJaneGrace/status/356886473473130498 |title=Twitter / LauraJaneGrace: @JamieKimHay Next couple days |publisher=Twitter.com |date= |accessdate=2013-09-07}}</ref>
==Background== The EP features acoustic versions of two songs from the band's sixth studio album, ''Transgender Dysphoria Blues'', which was released in early 2014. The song "True Trans Soul Rebel" has been played at live shows since May 30, 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/against-me/2012/ogden-theatre-denver-co-43da737f.html |title=Against Me! Concert Setlist at Ogden Theatre, Denver on May 30, 2012 |publisher=setlist.fm |date= |accessdate=2013-09-07}}</ref>
The album cover depicts Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb (Ted Levine) from the 1991 film ''The Silence of the Lambs'', who is a male serial killer often wrongly described as transgender.<ref>{{cite book | last=Garber | first=Marjorie | year=1997 | title=Vested Interests: Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety | publisher=Routledge | page=116 | isbn=978-0-415-91951-7 }}</ref>
==Track listing== {{tracklist | headline = EP | all_lyrics = Laura Jane Grace | all_music = Against Me! | title1 = FUCKMYLIFE666 | note1 = acoustic version | length1 = 2:53 | title2 = True Trans Soul Rebel | note2 = acoustic version | length2 = 3:15}}
==Personnel== * Laura Jane Grace – guitar, vocals
===Art and design=== * Steak Mtn. – art direction, design, typography, and illustration
==See also== *Against Me! discography
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Against Me!}} {{Authority control}}
Category:2013 singles Category:2013 songs Category:Against Me! songs Category:Transgender-related songs Category:Songs written by Laura Jane Grace Category:LGBTQ-related songs