When Millie is granted a prestigious fellowship in her hometown of Mobile, AL, she and her partner Avery, who is on the cusp of gender affirming top surgery, temporarily relocate to a hometown full of ghosts and the whispers of neighbors who can't understand how a nice girl like Millie could throw away the heterosexual life of service they all envisioned for her (surely it's Avery's fault sweet Millie doesn't go to church anymore). On a routine trip to pick up meds in the wake of Avery's surgery, Millie's innocent conversation with the pharmacist is overheard by Teresa, best friend of Millie's mom and quasi aunt to Millie, who puts together the snippets of conversation and wrongly assumes that Avery has breast cancer. Zealous woman of God that she is, Teresa immediately springs into action, rallying the church troops and organizing a gofundme to SAVE AVERY! Cue casseroles, checkbooks, and care packages.

As the clock of March Madness winds down, Millie attempts to manage her mom and Teresa, while grappling with what it means to return home when ‘home’ only seems to want the old version of you. Meanwhile, Avery is faced with an impossibly absurd choice – is it lying to not out themselves to refute a story they never told to begin with?

"I never asked for a gofundme" is a new queer comedy about the reality of gender affirming care, religion, and motherhood.