meet the cast
ZACKARY DRUCKER AS “AGNES”
Agnes approaches the UCLA Gender Clinic with one very specific goal: to have gender confirmation surgery. To accomplish this task, she produces an impenetrable narrative of self that does not allow for a fluidity or revision of experience. She is in a long-term committed relationship, and works as a secretary.
ANGELICA ROSS AS “GEORGIA”
Georgia is a trans woman from the South who is looking for help - from the Church, the military, and now the gender clinic. Due to the racist climate in Los Angeles at the time, she faces constant scrutiny by police and is unable to find work. Though far from her birth family and community, Georgia is happily married and eager to find new pathways for her future.
JEN RICHARDS AS “BARBARA”
Barbara is located in the heart of a sprawling underground network of trans people in 1950s Los Angeles. As a community ambassador, Barbara is often responsible for educating doctors about the more intricate details of trans life and organizing meet-ups where people share resources about transition.
SILAS HOWARD AS “DENNY”
Denny is an affable, working class man who finds himself occupying the borderlands between what we might now call butch lesbian and trans man. Uninterested in pursuing surgery, as he doesn’t want to lose access to the lesbian community. Denny is partnered and employed.
max wolf valerio as “Henry”
Henry lives a solitary life: a reclusive writer isolated and alienated from the world around him. Denied medical care, unable to get a job because his legal documents don’t match his gender, Henry is experiencing a pervasive hopelessness about his tenuous position in the world.
stephen ira as “jimmy”
Jimmy is a 15 year old kid who approaches the UCLA Gender Clinic feeling confident about his identity as a boy, even while his parents and doctors continue to tell him otherwise. Jimmy is playful and easy-going, often joking about himself and others throughout the interviews.