Draft:The Village (Wrabel song)

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"The Village" is a song by American singer Wrabel that was released in 2007. It has more then one version, Male to Female (MTF) and Female to Male (FTM) with minimal lyrical changes between them. It is inspirational song to transgender people due to pointing out that someone's identity can't be stopped by Transphobia.^{[1][notes 1]}

Wrabel wrote the song the same day that Donald Trump removed federal protections for transgender people (February 2007).^[2][1]

In an interview with Billboard, Wrabel described the song as "the most important thing to me that I have ever done and probably will ever do. It's the closest thing to my heart." ^[1]

One of the videos was directed by Dano Cerny depicts a FTM teenager struggling with gender dysphoria, and using a binder to flatten his chest. He also deals with family members who does not accept him. At the beginning of the video, there is a quote that resonated with some transgender people. ^{[notes 2]} Around 1:22 in it, the video cuts to a TV screen with the news of Trump banning transgender people from the U.S. Military.^[1] It ends with a caption "Dedicated to all the colorful birds" and a hashtag of "#TransRightsAreHumanRights"^[1]. Wrabel asked his production team to rush the video because of the ban of trans military personnel. ^[1]

Another one of the music videos is a collaboration with the dancing group Unity. They got Wrabel's attention by getting a golden buzzer for preforming with the FTM version on Britain's Got Talent. In the video, each of the unity members spoke about their experience with how the world treated them. ^[3]

• Wrabel - the Village
• Wrabel - the Village (MTF version) [official audio]