Trans Dudes with Lady Cancer: Film Screening & Filmmaker Q&A

What are the chances that two trans masculine people living under the same roof would be diagnosed with “lady cancer” in the same month? One with breast cancer and the other with ovarian cancer. Trans Dudes with Lady Cancer is a courageous and personal story about filmmakers Yee Won Chong and Brooks Nelson journey within a medical system that is scrambling to figure out how to provide affirming care for transgender people.

Running time: 33 minutes

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Filmmaker Q&A: 

We are delighted to announce that filmmaker and participant Yee Won Chong is visiting us all the way from Portland, Oregon, and will take part in an in-person Q&A following the screening, hosted by Joe Henson (Cancer Champions Manager, The Rainbow Project).

Yee Won Chong: Filmmaker 

Yee Won uses their lived experience as a political asylee from Malaysia and a community-organizing background to uncover our commonalities and shared struggles. Yee Won’s political asylum status, which was based on their sexual orientation, gender identity, and political opinion, gives them a unique perspective on our world. Yee Won believes that by building on our collective experiences, people can galvanize their power to create a just society.

Yee Won is also passionate about using storytelling to change hearts and minds. Yee Won’s TEDx Talk, “Beyond the Gender Binary,” is used widely by educators and trainers to spark conversations about gender. They are co-filmmakers and one of the main subjects of “Trans Dudes with Lady Cancer”.  TDWLC has reached thousands of healthcare practitioners through screenings at the National Cancer Institute, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, GlaxoSmithKline Oncology, the Veterans Administration, and many more institutions across the U.S. The film also reached audiences in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, and India. The University of California, Davis, School of Medicine include the film in its first-year students’ core curriculum since 2023.

Joe Henson: Q&A Host

Joe Henson is the Cancer Champions Manager at The Rainbow Project, and runs the first LGBTQIA+ Cancer support service in Northern Ireland in partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support. He has worked in the LGBTQIA+ charity sector for 11 years, with a focus on training, policy, service management and development. The service won a Macmillan Professionals Award for Equity in 2026. As a trans man with a history of working within, alongside and for marginalized communities, his focus is reducing health inequalities faced by the LGBTQIA+ community.

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Buy Tickets 

Tickets can be bought direct from QFT: Trans Dudes with Lady Cancer + Q&A showing at Queen’s Film Theatre, Belfast.