{"id":508770,"date":"2021-05-14T17:20:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T21:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=508770"},"modified":"2021-05-14T17:20:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T21:20:54","slug":"cbs-show-silence-of-the-lambs-made-life-harder-for-trans-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cbs-show-silence-of-the-lambs-made-life-harder-for-trans-people\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS Show: \u2018Silence Of The Lambs\u2019 Made \u2018Life Harder\u2019 For Trans People"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcbs-show-silence-of-the-lambs-made-life-harder-for-trans-people%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=508770&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Clarice.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Even though the 1991 Oscar-winning thriller \u201cThe Silence of the Lambs\u201d explicitly stated that the deranged psychopath Buffalo Bill was \u201cnot a real transsexual,\u201d LGBTQ activists have persistently <a href=\"http:\/\/cubmagazine.co.uk\/2016\/06\/trans-misrepresentation-in-the-silence-of-the-lambs\/\">condemned the film<\/a> as a work of transphobia. During this week\u2019s episode of CBS\u2019 \u201cClarice,\u201d which chronicles the life of Clarice Starling after the events of the film, LGBTQ activists were given a voice when a character on the show repeated the same talking points.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/culture\/lindsay-kornick\/2021\/05\/14\/trans-clarice-character-whines-silence-lambs-made-life\">Newsbusters<\/a>, in the May 13 episode, \u201cSilence is Purgatory,\u201d Clarice reaches out to a transsexual pharmaceutical worker, Julia, for help in an investigation only to be blamed for how the media portrayed Buffalo Bill as a representative of trans people. Full transcript:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"31\">\n<p>Julia: Buffalo Bill was clearly\u00a0 a monster, a-a-a killer, and I don\u2019t know what their story was, but they got labeled transsexual. And whether it\u2019s true or not, that word was then in every headline, every story, every gruesome tabloid photo right next to \u2018Murderer,\u2019 \u2018Maniac.\u2019 \u2018Psycho skins women, driven mad by transsexual desire.\u2019 That was the front page of the Baltimore Herald. Overnight, suddenly, the biggest story on everyone\u2019s minds was that transsexuals were monsters.<\/p>\n<p>Clarice: And this affected you personally?<\/p>\n<p>Julia: Clarice\u2026 I\u2019m transsexual. And\u2026 I have to keep that part of myself hidden because I could lose my job. My life. I have to hide who I am because of stories like Buffalo Bill. And at the center of all of those was\u2026 you.\u00a0You made my life harder.<\/p>\n<p>Clarice: I didn\u2019t write those articles. I didn\u2019t say those things.<\/p>\n<p>Julia: No, but the press were listening to you. And people like me don\u2019t have a voice. You had the power to say something, and\u2026you never did. So I needed to say something now.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cClarice\u201d showrunner Elizabeth Klaviter previously promised that the show would explicitly address the alleged transphobia presence in \u201cThe Silence of the Lambs.\u201d\u00a0 During a panel, Klaviter said that the original movie reinforced the negative stereotype that transgenders covet the female bodies they seek to transform themselves into.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we think back to 1993, the transgender community was largely invisible and there weren\u2019t many stories that were being told about the transgender community,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/tv\/clarice-writers-address-buffalo-bill-harmful-legacy\/\">said Klaviter<\/a>. \u201cThat meant that any portrayal of people who were trans had a weight to it and it informed the public\u2019s opinion of what it means to be trans. So when a character like Buffalo Bill popped up in an extremely popular movie as a trans person who is also a serial killer, doing horrific things to women, it reinforced a stereotype that already existed that transgender women were people who coveted and wanted to harm women and were part of a misogynistic culture, rather than human beings with an authenticity who are moving through their lives with the same desires and needs as any other human being.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jen Richards, who played the character Julia, said that friends would immediately mention Buffalo Bill when mentioning sexual transition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told a colleague of mine that I was about to transition and\u2026she looked at me kind of quizzically and replied, \u2018You mean like Buffalo Bill?&#8217;\u201d said Richards. \u201cThat was the only thing that came to mind when she heard \u2018trans.\u2019 That\u2019s not exactly what you want your friends to expect when you\u2019re going to transition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the 1991 Oscar-winning thriller \u201cThe Silence of the Lambs\u201d explicitly stated that the deranged psychopath Buffalo Bill was \u201cnot a real transsexual,\u201d LGBTQ activists have persistently condemned the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278195,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Clarice.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"CBS Show: \u2018Silence Of The Lambs\u2019 Made \u2018Life Harder\u2019 For Trans People","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Clarice.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"CBS Show: \u2018Silence Of The Lambs\u2019 Made \u2018Life Harder\u2019 For Trans People","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}