‘A passport to liberation’: The inside story of What It Feels Like For a Girl, 2025’s buzziest LGBTQ TV show (EXCLUSIVE)

Hannah Jones as Sasha, Ellis Howard as Byron and Laquarn Lewis as Lady Die in What It Feels Like For a Girl (Image: BBC)

“This show is going to bring a sense of community and light for trans people stuck in those awful towns like I was as a kid,” says rising star Hannah Jones, through tears, before reflecting on her new TV show’s theme of found family that will resonate with many LGBTQ people. “Even if you’re in that awful place – Hucknell for example! – with parents who don’t understand you, people around you at school who just don’t get you, there is refuge. There is family in your not-blood family.”

Attitude is chatting with the cast of What It Feels Like for a Girl, the BBC’s electric eight-parter based on

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