In "The Doctor Falls", the Doctor says the following in response to why he's taking a certain course of action:

Winning? Is that what you think it's about? I'm not trying to win. I'm not doing this because I want to beat someone, or because I hate someone, or because, because I want to blame someone. It's not because it's fun and God knows it's not because it's easy. It's not even because it works, because it hardly ever does. I do what I do, because it's right! Because it's decent! And above all, it's kind. It's just that. Just kind. If I run away today, good people will die. If I stand and fight, some of them might live. Maybe not many, maybe not for long. Hey, you know, maybe there's no point in any of this at all, but it's the best I can do, so I'm going to do it. And I will stand here doing it till it kills me.

As a queer, trans person living in a country that considers us a "a huge problem to a sane world" and which is actively rolling back our rights and protections, we very much vibe with this  

For us, this isn't the only reason we continue to battle on in spite of seemingly impossible odds, but it is very much a core reason  

We know we can't save everyone. Heck, sometimes it feels like we're not doing any good whatsoever 😞

And then someone will message us for help and be incredibly grateful, advise that they've changed their Steam login using our guide, or thank us for having helped them previously  

Again, this reminds of a section of dialogue from an earlier Doctor Who episode, "The Fires Of Pompeii".

DONNA: You can't just leave them!
DOCTOR: Don't you think I've done enough? History's back in place and everyone dies.
DONNA: You've got to go back. Doctor, I am telling you, take this thing back. It's not fair.
DOCTOR: No, it's not.
DONNA: But your own planet. It burned.
DOCTOR: That's just it. Don't you see, Donna? Can't you understand? If I could go back and save them, then I would. But I can't. I can never go back. I can't. I just can't, I can't.
DONNA: Just someone. Please. Not the whole town. Just save someone.

Sometimes, you've got just to save someone, you know?

Or at least try.

And we are trying...

... often very trying 😅

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@SleepyCatten for sure. the Doctor has a ton of good inspirational material.
@SleepyCatten and you've already helped so many people. You're heckin' awesome! 🫂

@SleepyCatten I practically know The Doctor Falls speech by heart, in these times I often find myself wanting to scream the next couple lines of that passage at certain people, some ‘leftists’ and ‘allies’ in particular:

You're going to die too, some day.
How will that be? Have you thought about it?
What would you die for?
Who I am is where I stand. Where I stand,
…is where I fall.
Stand with me.

These people say they have principles, they have values, that they care.

Yet I hear barely a peep from them in this current moment — if they won't speak out now, take action now, when will they? The silence is deafening, and it tells me they stand for nothing.

I understand it isn't easy, and not without cost, but things that matter rarely are.

@SleepyCatten One of these is of course my own MP, who I know full well has been informed by multiple people — largely those much better informed than I, but I've also contributed some of my own thoughts — of the various ‘concerns’, yet out right refuses to put a thing on the record, no written responses to questions, no public statements, nada.

They clearly stand for nothing.

Not even willing, as a back bencher, to hint they know what we know they know, much less ‘fall’.

They clearly stand for nothing.

We need so many more people in power with Twelve's attitude, informed by Donna of course — why he has that face, who are willing to actually stand for something.

Especially when it seems hopeless.

A bit more punching racists on sight (Thin Ice) wouldn't entirely go amiss either…