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A terrific story, well written, acted and produced.

For the people who think this is evil or warped, I say this: this is just the world catching up with what's always happened.

I am have limited knowledge on this topic. I'm learning too and will most likely use clumsy wording.

Since the start of time, there have been gay people. And since the start of time, there have no doubt been people who don't feel comfortable in their own identity. For many of us who are catching up (and this includes me) now is the time to educate people of the trials, highs and lows that trans people -- including young people -- must feel.

I don't believe young people watching this show are going to suddenly "become trans".

Instead, this show serves a number of purposes.

1. It educates people (including young people and parents) that trans people exist. There are people who don't feel comfortable in their own identity. Trans people have feelings, troubles and challenges.

2. For trans young people, this gives them the opportunity to think about their own situation and maybe give them courage or empowerment if they have doubts about themselves

3. Like racism, sexism, homophobia and many other social issues, it's about time discussion like this exists. The message that I feel it tells young people (and older people, like me) is that trans people exist, be kind (like you should be kind to everyone who meet in life) and accept people for who they are.

For the wowsers, the ignorant and the fearful - we're now as a society catching up with talking about things and ideas that have existed for a very long time. It's time to catch up, put your old, backwards ways of thinking behind, and be open to new ideas.

In Australia, we had a national plebiscite on legalising gay marriage, which was unnecessary and painful for many people. But, the positives were that the discussion helped to educate many people in Australia that gay people are just people.

So I say well done for creating "First Day". Well worth watching and well worth discussing with young people and older people.

First day is so sweet and Evie is such a great actress! Considering all ways Australia is currently failing trans youth - it's exciting to see that there are people out there who will back stories like this. Have followed Julie's work since starting from..now, so great to see her be able to take her story telling to a new, bigger, platform!

This show, in just it's first episode alone, stands it's ground and is a beautiful demonstration of diversity and how to cope and help.

Highly recommend.

This series is absolutely fantastic. It's heartfelt and one of the most thoughtful and honest stories about the experience of growing up trans that I've ever watched.

If this was a better world, I would say that it should be shown in schools as a part of a curriculum on tolerance and acceptance.

If you are trans, or you know someone who is and you'd like some insight on what they may be experiencing, or if you're open-minded enough to want to try to understand something that might not make sense to you, I highly recommend watching this series. It's available to stream on Hulu, and it isn't very long - just 8 episodes, none of which I believe were longer than a half hour, and it's definitely worth your time.

I binged this today on Hulu and thought it was excellent. The story was compelling without being preachy, and the acting was superb. It's sad that at least one other review has attacked it for having an "agenda," when the only agenda is that people deserve to be accepted for whom they are. Being transgender is not a mental illness, no matter what small minded people claim.