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= Framing Agnes (2018 Short Documentary) = Framing Agnes is a 2018 short documentary film directed by Chase Joynt and Kristen Schilt. The film delves into case files from a 1950s gender clinic, bringing in a cast of trans actors to address the legacy of a young trans woman who was forced to choose between honesty and access.

Framing Agnes was nominated for "Best Documentary Short" at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival

Plot Synopsis
The film looks at Harold Garfinkel's case study of "Agnes" from the 1950s, which is considered the "locus classicus" of sociological research on transgender people. Agnes, a 19-year-old secretary in Los Angeles, went to Robert J Stoller's UCLA gender identity clinic in 1958. Agnes drew attention to the topic of gender identity, and debated how doctors can treat patients, like Agnes, who appeared to have a conflict between their physical bodies and their internal sense of themselves as gendered beings.

Sociological History of Transgender Studies
“Being perceived … as a gender-normative cisgender person grants you a kind of access to the world that is often blocked by being perceived as trans. … This lack of access … can be understood as producing a disability. … ” (pp. xi–xii).

As the world continues it's upward trend of evolving from Pre-21st century lifestyles, there seems to be one specific community of people who continue to face inequality and unfairness, trans people. Some may ask how we have even gotten to the point where the trans community just wants to be accepted for who they are in present day, and not judged based upon their "biological" sex at birth.

Cast

 * Chase Joynt Director
 * Zackary Drucker as Agnes a trans woman seeking gender confirmation surgery
 * Angelica Ross as Georgia a black trans woman seeking acceptance from the community but fears the inability to support herself due to not having access to jobs
 * Jen Richards as Barbara
 * Silas Howard as Denny
 * Max Wolf Valerio as Henry
 * Stephen Ira Beatty as Jimmy