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* TurnTheOtherCheek: Hannah responds to Isabella's bullying and mocking her not with any kind of retaliation, but only kindness. She even expresses concern on seeing Isabella has been bruised on her arms, realizing that this means she's being abused. Isabella is won over by her compassion in time.
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* MarketBasedTitle: The Danish localization of the series is known as ''Hannahs hemmelighed'' ("Hannah's secret"). It doubles as an ArtifactTitle in the two last episodes given that she's outed at the end of the second episode.

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* MarketBasedTitle: The Danish localization of the series is known as ''Hannahs hemmelighed'' ("Hannah's secret"). It doubles quickly becomes as an ArtifactTitle in the two last episodes given that she's outed already at the end of the second episode.episode 2 in season 1.
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* TwoferTokenMinority: Hannah's school is majority white, with her friends Olivia and Natalie both being of Asian descent (East in Olivia's case, South for Natalie). Along with that, a supporting character is a boy of East Asian descent who's also gay. Hannah's friend turned enemy Jasmine is AmbiguouslyBrown.

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* TwoferTokenMinority: Hannah's school is majority white, with her friends Olivia and Natalie both being of Asian descent (East in Olivia's case, South for Natalie). Along with that, a supporting character is a boy of East Asian descent who's also gay. Hannah's friend turned enemy friend-turned-enemy Jasmine is AmbiguouslyBrown.dark-skinned.
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* TheBully: Isabella, a girl from Hannah's former school who knew her pre-transition and thus knows her previous name, bullies Hannah using this knowledge. However, over time she warms up to Hannah (who's very kind to her in spite of this, as she sees Isabella has suffered abuse due to bruises on her arms), and stops this.

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* TheBully: Isabella, a girl from Hannah's former school who knew her pre-transition and thus knows her previous name, bullies Hannah using this knowledge. However, over time she warms up to Hannah (who's very kind to her in spite of this, as she sees Isabella has suffered abuse due to bruises on her arms), and stops this.it.
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* SoapboxSadie: Hannah becomes a nice version, growing into a committed activist for trans right (and LGBT+ kids more broadly) at her school, pushing to amend the school's dress code so the students can wear what makes all of them comfortable.

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* SoapboxSadie: Hannah becomes a nice version, growing into a committed activist for trans right rights (and LGBT+ kids more broadly) at her school, pushing to amend the school's dress code so the students can wear what makes all of them comfortable.
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* TheFlapper: In the series finale, the girls all dress up with flapper styles for a student party (boys also wear retro outfits from the '20s era).


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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: At the end of her rope already, Hannah tells off two girls who joked they should transition and join the boy's team because it would be easier then. Both apologize.


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* SoapboxSadie: Hannah becomes a nice version, growing into a committed activist for trans right (and LGBT+ kids more broadly) at her school, pushing to amend the school's dress code so the students can wear what makes all of them comfortable.
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* ClosetGay: Sarah is a closeted trans boy introduced in the first season (but later comes out). Then in season two a couple other minor closeted LGBT+ kids are introduced too, who get support from the school Pride group that Hannah starts.

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* ClosetGay: Sarah Josh is a closeted trans boy introduced in the first season (but later comes out). Then in season two a couple other minor closeted LGBT+ kids are introduced too, who get support from the school Pride group that Hannah starts.



* TwoferTokenMinority: Hannah's school is majority white, with her friends Olivia and Natalie both being of Asian descent (East in Olivia's case, South for Natalie). Along with that, a supporting character is a boy of East Asian descent who's also gay.

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* TwoferTokenMinority: Hannah's school is majority white, with her friends Olivia and Natalie both being of Asian descent (East in Olivia's case, South for Natalie). Along with that, a supporting character is a boy of East Asian descent who's also gay. Hannah's friend turned enemy Jasmine is AmbiguouslyBrown.
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* TwoferTokenMinority: Hannah's school is majority white, with her friends Olivia and Natalie both being of Asian descent (East in Olivia's case, South for Natalie). Along with that, a supporting character is a boy of East Asian descent who's also gay.
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* NotSoDifferentRemark: Olivia states she can somewhat relate to Hannah's struggles as a trans girl because she's had some similar things for being Asian (prejudice, stereotypes, etc).

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* ComingOutStory: Hannah comes out to Olivia first as a trans girl, who's accepting and keeps her secret. Later she also tells how she'd first done it to other kids (she's been forcibly outed in the present). She had told her mom and dad she's a girl from early on, but it took years for them to accept this. Afterward, one of the apparent girls she tells was inspired and he comes out to Hannah telling her he's a trans boy, but his mom never listens. After having heard this, Hannah vows to help him as best she can.

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* ComingOutStory: ClosetGay: Sarah is a closeted trans boy introduced in the first season (but later comes out). Then in season two a couple other minor closeted LGBT+ kids are introduced too, who get support from the school Pride group that Hannah starts.
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Hannah comes out to Olivia first as a trans girl, who's accepting and keeps her secret. Later she also tells how she'd first done it to other kids (she's been forcibly outed in the present). She had told her mom and dad she's a girl from early on, but it took years for them to accept this. Afterward, one of the apparent girls she tells was inspired and he comes out to Hannah telling her he's a trans boy, but his mom never listens. After having heard this, Hannah vows to help him as best she can. In the second season it's shown Hannah's doing just that, and he's living now with his very accepting grandmother.
** In season two, after Hannah starts a Pride group, a couple of the students who join are closeted, with the others telling them how they came out.

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The series ran from 2020 to 2022, with two seasons that had 4 episodes each.



* BritishBrevity: The first season has only four episodes running around 25 minutes each.

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* BritishBrevity: The first season has only four episodes running around 25 minutes each.each, and the second season had the same.


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* TransEqualsGay: In season two, Hannah is asked if due to being trans she's gay as well. She points out they're not the same thing.
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* MarketBasedTitle: The Danish localization of the series is known as ''Hannahs hemmelighed'' ("Hannah's secret"). Doubles as an ArtifactTitle given that she's outed at the end of the second episode.

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* MarketBasedTitle: The Danish localization of the series is known as ''Hannahs hemmelighed'' ("Hannah's secret"). Doubles It doubles as an ArtifactTitle in the two last episodes given that she's outed at the end of the second episode.
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* MaliciousMisnaming: Hannah is bullied by Isabella, in part, using her deadname (which she knew due to them attending the same school before Hannah's transition).
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* MarketBasedTitle: The Danish localization of the series is known as ''Hannahs hemmelighed'' ("Hannah's secret"). Doubles as an ArtifactTitle given that she's outed at the end of the second episode.
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* {{Transgender}}: Hannah, the protagonist, is a trans girl. Later at camp, another kid named Sarah comes out to her as a trans boy too.
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12-year-old trans girl Hannah is starting high school, though she's afraid of how other kids will react to her gender. At first, Hannah keeps it secret with the help of the school until she's ready. However, a student from primary school is there and knows, mocking Hannah for this. It becomes clear soon that her gender won't stay secret for long, and Hannah will have to deal with the fact will integrating into her new school.

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12-year-old trans girl Hannah is starting high school, though she's afraid of how other kids will react to her gender. At first, Hannah keeps it secret with the help of the school until she's ready. However, a student from primary school is there and knows, mocking Hannah for this. It becomes clear soon that her gender won't stay secret for long, and Hannah will have to deal with the fact will while integrating into her new school.



* OutOfTheClosetIntoTheFire: After Hannah is outed as a trans girl, she gets a lot of mockery on social media, more bullying, and soon loses on her newfound friend, Jasmine. However, it's {{downplayed}} since most other kids are more curious than hostile, with the negative reaction blowing over quickly.

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* OutOfTheClosetIntoTheFire: After Hannah is outed as a trans girl, she gets a lot of mockery on social media, more bullying, and soon loses on one of her newfound friend, friends, Jasmine. However, it's {{downplayed}} since most other kids are more curious than hostile, with the negative reaction blowing over quickly.

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In this Australian series, 12 year old trans girl Hannah is starting high school, though she's afraid of how other kids will react to her gender. At first Hannah keeps it secret with the help of the school until she's ready. However, a student from primary school is there and knows, mocking Hannah for this. It becomes clear soon that her gender won't stay secret for long, and Hannah will have to deal with the fact will integrating to her new school.

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!!''First Day'' provides examples of:



* BritishBrevity: The first season has only four episode running around 25 minutes each.

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* BritishBrevity: The first season has only four episode episodes running around 25 minutes each.



* DoNotCallMePaul: Hannah doesn't like being called by her former name (deadname) as is common for trans people. It's used by a girl who knew her pre-transition. She threatens to reveal it with everyone before Hannah eventually tells her this doesn't matter, she'll still be herself. When curious kids asked her before what it was, Hannah politely declined to say.
* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: Hannah is outed as transgender on social media after starting with a new school. At first it seems like her bully Isabella did it, but she insists it's untrue. It turns out she's right, and a boy from a higher up grade did this after learning Hannah's gender by overhearing teachers talking.

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* DoNotCallMePaul: Hannah doesn't like being called by her former name (deadname) as is common for trans people. It's used by a girl who knew her pre-transition. She threatens to reveal it with to everyone before Hannah eventually tells her this doesn't matter, she'll still be herself. When curious kids asked her before what it was, Hannah politely declined to say.
* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: Hannah is outed as transgender on social media after starting with a new school. At first first, it seems like her bully Isabella did it, but she insists it's untrue. It turns out she's right, and a boy from a higher up grade did this after learning Hannah's gender by overhearing teachers talking.



** Olivia and Natalie, Hannah's friends, also show her great compassion. Neither rejects Hannah after learning she's transgender, accepting it without hesitation, and Olivia even sets up a notification which shows all the positive comments about her online, as a way of offsetting the negative ones. When a girl gets her period suddenly at camp, Natalie also helps her at once, reassuring her that it's fine.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: {{Averted}}, a girl named Briony unexpectedly gets hers at camp and stains her pants. Luckily Natalie had put in a huge amount of sanitary supplies when she packed, and gives her a tampon.
* OutOfTheClosetIntoTheFire: After Hannah is outed as a trans girl, she gets a lot of mockery on social media, more bullying and soon loses on her newfound friends, Jasmine. However, it's {{downplayed}} since most other kids are more curious than hostile, with the negative reaction blowing over quickly.
* SecretKeeper: Hannah has Olivia promise to keep her secret as a trans girl after coming out, afraid of other people's reactions. She then gets outed to the whole school anyway however (by someone else).
* {{Transgender}}: Hannah, the protagonist, is a trans girl. Later at camp another kid named Sarah comes out to her as a trans boy too.
* TransTribulations: Hannah has to face being bullied, called her old name, a boy and otherwise poorly treated over being transgender. Later a trans boy who was inspired by Hannah comes out to her, saying his mom flatly refuses to listen while he's trying to tell her about this.

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** Olivia and Natalie, Hannah's friends, also show her great compassion. Neither rejects Hannah after learning she's transgender, accepting it without hesitation, and Olivia even sets up a notification which that shows all the positive comments about her online, as a way of offsetting the negative ones. When a girl gets her period suddenly at camp, Natalie also helps her at once, reassuring her that it's fine.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: {{Averted}}, a girl named Briony unexpectedly gets hers at camp and stains her pants. Luckily Natalie had put in a huge amount of sanitary supplies when she packed, packed and gives her a tampon.
* OutOfTheClosetIntoTheFire: After Hannah is outed as a trans girl, she gets a lot of mockery on social media, more bullying bullying, and soon loses on her newfound friends, friend, Jasmine. However, it's {{downplayed}} since most other kids are more curious than hostile, with the negative reaction blowing over quickly.
* SecretKeeper: Hannah has Olivia promise to keep her secret as a trans girl after coming out, afraid of other people's reactions. She then gets outed to the whole school anyway anyway, however (by someone else).
* {{Transgender}}: Hannah, the protagonist, is a trans girl. Later at camp camp, another kid named Sarah comes out to her as a trans boy too.
* TransTribulations: Hannah has to face being bullied, called her old name, a boy boy, and otherwise poorly treated over being transgender. Later a trans boy who was inspired by Hannah comes out to her, saying his mom flatly refuses to listen while he's trying to tell her about this.

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In this Australian series, 12 year old trans girl Hannah is starting high school, though she's afraid of how other kids will react to her gender. At first Hannah keeps it secret with the help of the school until she's ready. However, a student from primary school is there and knows, mocking Hannah for this. It becomes clear that her gender won't stay secret for long, and Hannah will have to deal with the fact will integrating to her new school.

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In this Australian series, 12 year old trans girl Hannah is starting high school, though she's afraid of how other kids will react to her gender. At first Hannah keeps it secret with the help of the school until she's ready. However, a student from primary school is there and knows, mocking Hannah for this. It becomes clear soon that her gender won't stay secret for long, and Hannah will have to deal with the fact will integrating to her new school.

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In this Australian miniseries, 12 year old trans girl Hannah is starting high school, though she's afraid of how other kids will react to her gender. At first Hannah keeps it secret with the help of the school until she's ready. However, a student from primary school is there and knows, mocking Hannah for this. It becomes clear that her gender won't stay secret for long, and Hannah will have to deal with the fact will integrating to her new school.

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In this Australian miniseries, series, 12 year old trans girl Hannah is starting high school, though she's afraid of how other kids will react to her gender. At first Hannah keeps it secret with the help of the school until she's ready. However, a student from primary school is there and knows, mocking Hannah for this. It becomes clear that her gender won't stay secret for long, and Hannah will have to deal with the fact will integrating to her new school.



* BritishBrevity: The first season has only four episode running around 25 minutes each.



* IJustWantToBeNormal: Hannah struggles with this, wanting to just be treated like any other girl but very anxious at first over how they'll react at her school if she's known as transgender. She makes loyal friends however who are accepting. The ending indicates that things have normalized for her.

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* IJustWantToBeNormal: Hannah struggles with this, wanting to just be treated like any other girl but very anxious at first over how they'll react at her school if she's known as transgender. She makes loyal friends however who are accepting. The ending season one finale indicates that things have normalized for her.
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* SecretKeeper: Hannah has Olivia promise to keep her secret as a trans girl after coming out, afraid of other people's reactions. She then gets outed to the whole school anyway however.

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* SecretKeeper: Hannah has Olivia promise to keep her secret as a trans girl after coming out, afraid of other people's reactions. She then gets outed to the whole school anyway however.however (by someone else).
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* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: Hannah is outed as transgender on social media after starting with a new school. At first it seems like her bully Isabella did it, but she insists it's untrue. It turns out she's right, and a boy from a higher grade did it after learning Hannah's gender.

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* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: Hannah is outed as transgender on social media after starting with a new school. At first it seems like her bully Isabella did it, but she insists it's untrue. It turns out she's right, and a boy from a higher up grade did it this after learning Hannah's gender.gender by overhearing teachers talking.
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* ComingOutStory: Hannah comes out to Olivia first as a trans girl, who's accepting and keeps her secret. Later she also tells how she'd first done it to other kids (she's been forcibly outed in the present). She had told her mom and dad she's a girl from early on, but it took years for them to accept this. Afterward, one of the apparent girls she tells was inspired and he comes out to Hannah telling her he's a trans boy, but his mom never listens. After this, Hannah vows to help him as best she can.

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* ComingOutStory: Hannah comes out to Olivia first as a trans girl, who's accepting and keeps her secret. Later she also tells how she'd first done it to other kids (she's been forcibly outed in the present). She had told her mom and dad she's a girl from early on, but it took years for them to accept this. Afterward, one of the apparent girls she tells was inspired and he comes out to Hannah telling her he's a trans boy, but his mom never listens. After having heard this, Hannah vows to help him as best she can.
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In this Australian miniseries, 12 year old trans girl Hannah is starting high school, though she's afraid of how other kids will react to her gender. At first Hannah keeps it secret with the help of the school until she's ready. However, a student from primary school is there and knows, mocking Hannah for this. It becomes clear that her gender won't stay secret for long, and Hannah will have to deal with the fact will integrating to her new school.

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* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Hannah is bullied by other kids for being transgender, while Isabella takes the lead.
* TheBully: Isabella, a girl from Hannah's former school who knew her pre-transition and thus knows her previous name, bullies Hannah using this knowledge. However, over time she warms up to Hannah (who's very kind to her in spite of this, as she sees Isabella has suffered abuse due to bruises on her arms), and stops this.
* ComingOutStory: Hannah comes out to Olivia first as a trans girl, who's accepting and keeps her secret. Later she also tells how she'd first done it to other kids (she's been forcibly outed in the present). She had told her mom and dad she's a girl from early on, but it took years for them to accept this. Afterward, one of the apparent girls she tells was inspired and he comes out to Hannah telling her he's a trans boy, but his mom never listens. After this, Hannah vows to help him as best she can.
* DoNotCallMePaul: Hannah doesn't like being called by her former name (deadname) as is common for trans people. It's used by a girl who knew her pre-transition. She threatens to reveal it with everyone before Hannah eventually tells her this doesn't matter, she'll still be herself. When curious kids asked her before what it was, Hannah politely declined to say.
* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: Hannah is outed as transgender on social media after starting with a new school. At first it seems like her bully Isabella did it, but she insists it's untrue. It turns out she's right, and a boy from a higher grade did it after learning Hannah's gender.
* GoodParents: Hannah's parents (and brother) completely support her in the present as a trans girl. The only rule which we see them lay down (not having a sleepover at kids' houses who don't know her gender) is for her safety.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Hannah struggles with this, wanting to just be treated like any other girl but very anxious at first over how they'll react at her school if she's known as transgender. She makes loyal friends however who are accepting. The ending indicates that things have normalized for her.
* NiceGirl:
** Hannah is a very sweet, kind girl who just wants to have friends and live like her peers. She never bears any grudge toward her bully Isabella, and expresses concern about Isabella's bruises, knowing this means she's being abused by someone. Isabella is eventually even won over by her kindness too.
** Olivia and Natalie, Hannah's friends, also show her great compassion. Neither rejects Hannah after learning she's transgender, accepting it without hesitation, and Olivia even sets up a notification which shows all the positive comments about her online, as a way of offsetting the negative ones. When a girl gets her period suddenly at camp, Natalie also helps her at once, reassuring her that it's fine.
* NoPeriodsPeriod: {{Averted}}, a girl named Briony unexpectedly gets hers at camp and stains her pants. Luckily Natalie had put in a huge amount of sanitary supplies when she packed, and gives her a tampon.
* OutOfTheClosetIntoTheFire: After Hannah is outed as a trans girl, she gets a lot of mockery on social media, more bullying and soon loses on her newfound friends, Jasmine. However, it's {{downplayed}} since most other kids are more curious than hostile, with the negative reaction blowing over quickly.
* SecretKeeper: Hannah has Olivia promise to keep her secret as a trans girl after coming out, afraid of other people's reactions. She then gets outed to the whole school anyway however.
* {{Transgender}}: Hannah, the protagonist, is a trans girl. Later at camp another kid named Sarah comes out to her as a trans boy too.
* TransTribulations: Hannah has to face being bullied, called her old name, a boy and otherwise poorly treated over being transgender. Later a trans boy who was inspired by Hannah comes out to her, saying his mom flatly refuses to listen while he's trying to tell her about this.
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