"In episode seven of the new series, which dramatises (beyond recognition, some would argue) Gein's monstrous crimes - including his conviction of killing two women, his suspected involvement in multiple other murders, and his fascination with grave-robbing, bodily mutilation, and fashioning garments and furniture out of skin - Murphy and his team make their bid to stomp out age-old suggestions that Gein was trans."
"They do so through an imagined, never-actually-happened conversation between Gein and Christine Jorgensen, the first woman in the US to undergo gender reassignment surgery. "I don't think you and I are alike at all," Jorgensen tells Gein, following up with this didactic note: "The transexual is rarely the perpetrator of violence, Mr. Gein. We are far more likely to be the victims of violence.""
Monster: The Ed Gein Story stages an imagined conversation between Gein and Christine Jorgensen to counter decades-old claims that Gein was transgender. The exchange includes Jorgensen telling Gein that transexual people are rarely perpetrators and are more often victims of violence. The series portrays Gein as gynephilic—deeply aroused by the female body—rather than transgender, and visually presents him wearing women's skin. The production aims to separate trans identity from violent criminality historically reinforced by media and films such as Psycho and The Silence of the Lambs. The portrayal seeks to correct sensationalized reporting and entertainment portrayals that conflate gender variance with pathology or violence.
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