US EditionWho Is Paris Lees? Meet the Creator of What It Feels Like for a Girl
- BBC released the 8-part drama What It Feels Like for a Girl on June 3, 2025, set in Nottingham and Hucknall, telling Byron's coming-of-age story.
- The series adapts Paris Lees's 2021 memoir about her troubled youth, prison sentence, gender transition, and challenges as a trans woman in the UK.
- Byron, played by Ellis Howard, struggles with identity, family tension, and Nottingham's nightclub scene, while encountering characters like Lady Die and facing party culture risks.
- The Times praised the series for its blend of humor, emotional depth, and unsettling moments, highlighting its strong writing, while Lees described turning her memoir into a television adaptation as a deeply personal and significant endeavor.
- The drama's release highlights ongoing trans representation issues amid UK legal rulings and aims to advance understanding through a personal, reflective narrative.
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What It Feels Like for a Girl: a 'fearless and compelling' coming-of-age drama
"What It Feels Like for a Girl" is a long way from your "typical female bildungsroman", said Rachel Aroesti in The Guardian. The eight-part series has been adapted for television from Paris Lees' "excellent" memoir recalling her life as a working-class teenager called Byron growing up in a small Nottinghamshire town.Seen by others as a boy, our protagonist's early gender dysphoria is "angrily dismissed by their macho father", and the idea of one…
'A passport to liberation': The inside story of What It Feels Like For a Girl, 2025's buzziest LGBTQ TV show
“I feel blessed to be part of a show that humanises trans people, that has queer people in the very fabric of it,” says Ellis Howard of this electric memoir adaptation from media figure (and former Attitude columnist) Paris Lees The post ‘A passport to liberation’: The inside story of What It Feels Like For a Girl, 2025’s buzziest LGBTQ TV show appeared first on Attitude.
How Paris Lees became a UK queer icon
WORDS BY KATIE BASKERVILLE What It Feels Like For A Girl, a television adaptation of Paris Lees’ experimental, exhilarating memoir, has just dropped on BBC iPlayer. Here’s where you might recognise its creator. If you’re anything like us, you’ve already binge-watched What It Feels Like For A Girl, the catty, chaotic coming-of-age story following a young Byron (played by Ellis Howard) as they navigate growing up queer in the Midlands during the e…
Who is Paris Lees? Meet the creator of What It Feels Like for a Girl
New BBC Three series What It Feels Like for a Girl is now available to watch in full, starring Ellis Howard as Byron, a teenager stuck in a small working-class town who escapes to Nottingham and is adopted into a hilarious and chaotic family of trouble-makers.However, Byron is later seduced by bad boy Liam, and a shocking encounter occurs that will change life forever.The series is based on the book of the same name which was released in 2021, a…
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