The Dads

A group of dads building a movement to support their trans and gender expansive kids in the U.S. are forced to make an impossible choice amid a shifting political landscape: stay and fight or flee the country.

Inspired by the Daytime Emmy Award-winning short documentary of the same name (Netflix, 2023), The Dads follows a community of fathers of trans and nonbinary children forced to choose between country and family. Filmed over the course of a year—from quiet retreats in rural Maine and Minnesota to protests, family milestones, a pivotal U.S. Supreme Court decision, and the collapse of gender-affirming care—the documentary captures a moment of national reckoning with striking intimacy. Directed by Emmy Award–winning filmmaker Luchina Fisher and executive produced by Dwyane Wade, this is fatherhood as an act of radical love and resistance.