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A heartfelt, unfiltered portrait of love, grief, and trans joy - told through letters written to a boy named Wes. | dG1fZ3MzLUlwWW81Ymc
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00:00So I want to talk about the architect of all of this.
00:06I was wondering how you would finish the statement, Dear Wes.
00:15Dear Wes, why don't you see us as human beings?
00:20Why are you able to sacrifice us so easily?
00:24Why is it you're so readily killing us,
00:27letting us suffer without any help at all?
00:34I'm tired.
00:36I'm so tired of fighting you.
00:40The world is big and wide and scary,
00:42and you can't understand everyone's experiences,
00:45but that doesn't mean you can keep ignoring us
00:48and hurting us.
00:51I know there's medicine that can cause puberty.
00:57I'm not allowed to have that medicine,
01:00even though it's safe and reversible.
01:02Please stop hurting kids like me,
01:04and please stop making us grow up with fear.
01:07You're the health secretary.
01:13You could stop trans people suffering,
01:17but you don't.
01:19We deserve better.
01:25Dear Wes,
01:28Listening's not enough.
01:30Time to take action.
01:33That's lost most of itself
01:35As the waves came crashing down
01:37And there's a wreck

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