Dear Wes... | movie | 2025 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

A heartfelt, unfiltered portrait of love, grief, and trans joy - told through letters written to a boy named Wes. | dG1fcnJrSjFWbWRnSFk

Transcript

00:00As a trans kid, you don't have any autonomy.

00:03It's sort of constantly taken away from you

00:05by the media, by doctors, by the Minister, Secretary for Health.

00:14There's been a big pushback in the NHS against gender-affirming care.

00:20It's not generated by a kind of genuine desire

00:24to see positive outcomes for young trans people.

00:27It comes from a place of believing

00:29that transness is a pathology,

00:34an illness that is to be cured.

00:38When the puberty blocker ban was renewed,

00:42it was especially crushing

00:44because one of my friends had recently died who was trans.

00:49That felt like no-one was looking out for us,

00:53no-one cared about us.

00:54To me, in my life, this massive thing had happened and no-one cared.

01:01So this is also about a much wider fight to restrict autonomy,

01:06to make people less able to express themselves

01:08and to reassert quite traditional gender norms onto society.

01:17I want to believe that we'll put enough pressure on streeting

01:21and we can overturn the ban,

01:26but in reality, I don't think people in government really care about trans kids,

01:32and I think we're sort of a minority that can be sacrificed to them.

01:35and I do have time for it.

01:48Let's take a minute.