#firsttheycame — Public Fediverse posts

Just finished watching Leeja Miller's latest video on new anti-trans rules in the US 🥺

Leeja referenced a Trans Relocation Guide, so we wanted to share this here for any US folks affected by this :TransHeart: :NonBinaryHeart:

Additionally, in case you're not already aware of it, there's a global, umbrella organisation called ILGA World that we recommend checking out. It's sub-divided into regional network organisations and has over 2000 member organisations.

The regional networks are:

• ILGA Asia
• ILGA-Europe
• ILGA Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) (no website - only a Facebook page)
• ILGA North America and the Caribbean (no website - only a Facebook group)
• ILGA Oceania (Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and Pacific islands) (no website - only a Facebook page)
• Pan Africa ILGA

ILGA-Europe produces a yearly Rainbow Map to rank European (and some adjacent) countries by LGBTQIA+ rights and equality.

If you are affected by the recent anti-trans rights actions taken in the US or elsewhere, please, please make a note of the above organisations, as well as the below websites about gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT):

• HRT Café
• DIY HRT Market
• DIY HRT Directory 2.0

Suffice to say, boosts very much welcome and appreciated :BoostsOKPrideSymbol:

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Way back sometime in the latter half of the 1980s, we watched Rupert and the Frog Song on VHS and heard We All Stand Together within it for the very first time.

We still remember how excited our dad was for us to hear the song for the very first time, and how much we enjoyed the music and lyrics 🎶

It wasn't until much later in life that we started to realise just how powerful and defiant some lyrics of the song verses were, whilst others were... noticeably less so.

The first verse begins as follows:

Win or lose, sink or swim
One thing is certain, we'll never give in
Side by side, hand in hand
We all stand together

We don't know what meaning(s) Paul McCartney intended with such lyrics, but to us this isn't just some song about friendship for kids: it's a call to stand, march, and support each other, no matter what happens.

Given Paul's working class background, it's perhaps no surprise that it feels inherently pro-social, pro-worker, and pro-union. It's positive, progressive, and powerful: exactly the kind of message that people need to inspire them to proect.

Given the strength of the first verse, it's perplexing to us how suddenly the tone shifts in the second, which begins:

Play the game, fight the fight

"Play the game" has multiple meanings, but it's likely about conforming to the rules of the establishment. In order to win the game, you have to:

• obey the rules;
• be on your best "sporting" behaviour; and
• not do anything controversial that might lead to a penalty for your side, particularly as that could cost you the entire game.

Beyond this, folks may even need to play the long-game, where you patiently plan, prepare, and outperform your opponents, particularly political ones, in order to achieve your goals.

The lyrics then call for the listener to "fight the fight". This seems likely to be the "good fight", which in the context of the times would likely be the ongoing battle for workers' rights against a government that considered unions and workers to be the enemy.

Okay. So maybe this is a bit grim for a young listener, but given all the obstacles stacked up against the working class, who were often treated like obstinate children themselves, it would make sense that the song encourages caution here. It was a different time. We can understand this, even if we don't fully agree.

What we don't understand is the apparent flippancy of the next line:

But what's the point on a beautiful night?

What the actual heck, song?!

Okay, okay, okay.

Maybe we're being too hard on the song here. Perhaps it's remarking that sometimes you need to take a break from the fight every once in a while for yourself to recharge, so you can keep fighting.

However, if this was the intended meaning, it's not been implemented well, in our opinion.

The phrasing "what's the point" makes it sound like the entire purpose of fighting is ultimately meaningless. That's not a positive message for kids: that's what you'd expect from the resignation speech of someone who's burnt themselves out fighting over decades to achieve their goals, only to begin to question why they were even fighting!

And yet, the verse then ends on:

Arm in arm, hand in hand
We all stand together

Maybe the song had a momentarily loss of hope, but then regained it, and is once again supporting the idea of unity, solidarity, and the strength of the group.

Alternatively, the song never actually recovered from the loss of hope, but is pushing on regardless, as we all need to support each other, even if we never achieve our end goals.

By going "arm in arm" and "hand in hand", it's both a show of group strength and an acknowledgement that everyone within the group needs some form of support from others around them.

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Okay... so… why have we written all this, particularly right now?

There are lots of answers we could give, but for us it ultimately comes down to these points:

• This song is inherently one of hope, but it could be so much stronger with a little rewording.
• Times are bleak right now for millions of people and people need a little hope.

We've had ideas ourselves on how we might reword the lyrics, but we're not a song writer. Heck, we're not a good writer writer… as this awful sentence no doubt highlights.

Our ideas are full of anger, rage, and a feeling of inevitable, unavoidable despair for all the people we know we won't be able to help, support, or save 🥺😞

In a way, we're perhaps a bit like the second verse: we expect to keep fighting battles not because we expect to win any of them, but because we need to support those around us regardless.

We honestly want to ask how you would reword the song to strengthen it.

• What would you change?
• Why would you make those changes?

Right now, our anger would turn the second verse into:

Fuck their game! Time to fight!
Stop ceding ground to the bigoted right!
Arm in arm; hand in hand
We must stand together!

Not exactly the most-inspiring version it could be 😅🤦‍♀️

What would your version of "We All Stand Together" be?

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Hannah Phillips has produced some great videos over the years, but this is arguably one of her most-impactful ones yet :TransHeart:

JK Rowling Has Lost Her Mind

Please boost and share as widely as you can, especially for any friends, family, loved ones, or co-workers who:

• don't realise the real-world harm JK Rowling has done to trans people, particularly by funding anti-trans-rights individual, organisations, causes, and court cases
• mistakenly think that they can "separate the art from the author", particularly with the Harry Potter reboot

If they ask for the receipts, link them to detailed content like:

• A timeline of JK Rowling's anti-trans shift
• JK Rowling, Transphobia, & The Supreme Court

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Hey folks :TransHeart:

As you're almost-certainly already aware, access to GAHT is increasingly being restricted, being outright banned, or otherwise unavailableb to many trans+ people under 18 in many places across the world 😔

For example, the UK had already banned new prescriptions of GnRH agonists (a type of puberty blocker) for any trans+ person under 18, and is now genuinely considering banning all private GAHT prescriptions too 🤬

GAHT is literally lifesaving medication for many trans+ people :BlahajHuggingTransHeart:

Without it, many trans+ people under 18 will struggle even more with mental health, and many will not make it to adulthood 😭

If you are a trans+ person under 18, or are a supportive family member or friend of someone who is, please start to make contingency plans now for the worst-case scenarios 🥺

We highly recommend bookmarking the below website and making copies of all relevant info and links in case it gets taken down:

• HRT4All
  • Before the site will let you in, it'll ask you to answer a quiz, after which it'll create a cookie called "quiz_passed" with a value of "true".
  • The website seems to have intermittent issues with the quiz, so if you encounter any issues, delete all cookies for the website and reload.
  • If all else fails, you can use an extension called Cookiebro in Firefox or Edge to import a "quiz_passed" cookie from a JSON. (Contents for Firefox cookie; contents for Edge cookie.)

If you're 18+ or soon will be, please also do the same for these:

• The DIY HRT Directory 2.0
• HRT Café
• DIYHRT Market.
• r/TransDIY Wiki.

Please note that there is now at least one homebrewer who offers estradiol sprays.

We all need to prepare now, before it's too late 🥺😞

Enough lives have already been lost. We can't save everyone, but we need to try to save as many as we can ✊

Boosts very much appreciated :BoostsOKPrideSymbol:

Edit 2025-08-19:

• Added some info to help anyone struggling to log in to HRT4All.
• Added info on additional resources.

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Yesterday, after years of a sustained onslaught by heavily-funded anti-trans and anti-rights lobbying groups, the UK Supreme Court caved to their disformation and hate through an unust ruling that will negative impact many living within the UK 😞

If you are unaware of what happened, are unclear on the details, or perhaps have yet to read anything from a non-anti-trans source, the below explainers may help:

• QueerAF - UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren’t Women under the Equality Act 2010
• TransActual
• Reaction post by Ellen Jones with the warning - "Queer people: it's your rights next"

Although the ruling was specifically against trans+ women, it will have far-reaching implications not just for all trans+ and non-binary folks, but for all intersex individuals and gender-non-conforming cis people, such as masculine-presenting or -sounding cis women.

The floodgates are now wide open to further discrimination against anyone who isn't a cishet person who conforms to arbitrary gendered expectations, as well as the further erosion of human rights within the UK :FaceExhaling:

If you are a trans+ person living in the UK, please, please be kind to yourself. Step away from doomscrolling and prioritise self-care if you can, please 🥺

If you are in contact with anyone in the UK who will be impacted in any way (directly or indirectly) by yesterday's ruling, please, please reach out to them to offer genuine support, kindness, and love :NotoEmojiPinkHeart:

If you wish to use YouTube, please use an extension like YTBlock to block any anti-trans channels or content. There's a similar extension called uBlacklist, which allows you to block websites in search engine results. Both extensions are compatible with multiple major browsers.

And for anyone who needs someone to tell them what to do right now, your current mission is to survive, even if it's solely out of spite and defiance against tyranny.

Your continued existence is resistance ✊ :TransHeart: :NonBinaryHeart: :AgenderHeart: :BiGenderHeart: :GenderfluidHeart: :GenderqueerHeart: :IntersexHeart: :IntersexInclusivePrideHeart:

Boosts always welcome :BoostsOKPrideSymbol:

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