“We have heard the story told by the hunter and not by the lion, and not by the lions who not only fought back but got away,” “Pose’s” Angelica Ross says in a new trailer for “Framing Agnes.” The award-winning doc reimagines trans history in America through the story of one Agnes (Zachary Drucker, “Transparent”).
“Agnes” was the pseudonym of a young trans woman who “lied her way into the UCLA Gender Clinic to get access to surgery” and gender-affirming healthcare in the 1960s, the trailer tells us. “Framing Agnes” blends fiction and non-fiction and uses the “fascinating and celebrated figure in trans history” as a springboard to revisit other
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