I watched all 4 episodes of First Day thought I’d share my thoughts..
So, main character called Hannah - transgender girl starting high school, it’s filmed in Australia. First episode breaches the issue of toilets, and at first she is told she has to use the sick bay toilets, the main character obviously wasn’t happy with this.
Mum won’t let hannah sleep over at friends houses unless they and their parents know they are trans. This was dressed up as ‘we need to keep you safe’ but we all know it’s more likely to be the other way round and it’s about keeping the other girls safe. Hannah decides to tell one friend she trusts about being trans, friend is fine with it, I think this scene was meant to be emotional but I didn’t feel it.
Eventually everyone finds out Hannah is trans when a student in another year sends a mass text to everyone in the school. Hannah ends up taking a week off school. Her friends are ok with her being trans, apart from one who leaves their group. In later episodes she is eventually allowed to use the girls toilets after a lot of nagging of the head teacher from her friends.
There’s a kid who Hannah knows from primary school who keeps threatening to deadname and tell everyone about her being trans but never does. It’s briefly implied ‘Isabelle’ has some shit going on at home (Abuse) and honestly I was more interested in her story than Hannah’s but it wasn't explored further.
The last episode they go to a swimming camp, Hannah is in a girls dorm, funny how that was fine but at the start she couldn’t even use the girls toilets. I guess like was mentioned a few times throughout the show, people knowing you’re trans is the most important thing above all else. Forget about any potential safety issues or how if it was the real world not all girls would be so chill about having to share a dorm with a male. One girl gets her period unexpectedly, another girl has a whole stash of sanpro and upon seeing it one of Hannah’s friends say “there’s enough here for every girl at camp!”. Then it cuts to a bit later where the friend apologised to Hannah for that comment because it wasn’t inclusive and she ‘didn’t think’. She said nothing wrong imo and shouldn’t have apologised for saying a perfectly normal thing. Friend then says Hannah is lucky she doesn’t have to deal with periods, then Hannah says she wishes she did
Ohhh almost forgot. The parts where Hannah is explaining what being trans is. She describes it as “when you’re born a girl or a boy but you’re actually the opposite”. I didn’t like the way this was explained because it makes it sound like a medical condition rather than a mental one, and there was zero mention of dysphoria which, imo would make it easier to understand. The character said you know from around 2 or 3 that you are trans (but what about rapid onset gd?). Also felt it was a bit simplistic and too much emphasis on stereotypes (what a surprise), this could potentially cause kids to wonder if they are trans too when they wouldn’t have otherwise just because they wanted to play cars when they were little.
Overall I found it to be nothing more than pro trans propoganda and I won’t be letting my kids access this show because all it would show them is how to make way for men in your female only spaces in the name of being ‘inclusive’. Not a fan.
But she’d read other people saying Rowling was transphobic and decided that was the case. I think it’s partly because it became the prevailing ‘woke’ perspective? And people are afraid to step away from the narrative for fear of being kicked out of the club?
