The Not-So-Hidden Transphobia in Silence of the Lambs

8/25/2014

The Silence of the Lambs has a transphobic message

Hollywood is a routine offender in promoting transphobia and cissexism—the negative attitudes and discrimination directed toward people whose gender identity, or perceived expression, is different from the sex they were assigned at birth. In my view, few films are as offensive as Jonathan Demme’s Silence of the Lambs, which demonizes and delegitimizes transgender individuals through portraying the serial killer, Jame Gumb—otherwise known as Buffalo Bill—as a psychotic transgender person. At the same time, normative expressions of gender are idealized as innocent. The result is a transphobic dichotomy with cisgender and transgender positioned as moral opposites.

For those who haven’t seen the film, Silence of the Lambs follows FBI Academy student Clarice Starling, played by Jodi Foster, as she solves a recent string of murders in the Midwest committed by the serial killer known as Buffalo Bill, played by Ted Levine. She enlists the help of an incarcerated cannibalistic serial killer and former psychiatrist, Hannibal Lecter, who analyzes the case files in order to uncover Buffalo Bill’s true identity. In this process, Starling discloses a traumatic event in her childhood involving waking up to the screaming of lambs about to get slaughtered. She ran away from her family ranch, attempting to save one of the lambs, but was unable to. Here, lambs are a symbol of innocence. Starling’s inability to save them and her subsequent nightmares are manifestations of her guilt. The film’s title is a reference to the end of Starling’s nightmares, when the screaming lambs become silent, ideally through her solving the Buffalo Bill case and saving his living victim, Catherine Martin. Throughout the film, it is revealed that Buffalo Bill is a transgender woman. She has applied for sex-reassignment surgery, cross-dresses, and prefers to hide her penis between her legs. Ultimately, Starling saves Martin through the clues that Lecter slowly discloses in exchange for a chance at a prison with better living conditions. In the end, Starling kills Gumb, and the closing scene of the film is of Lecter’s escape and intent to kill Frederick Chilton, a doctor who worked at Lecter's prison.

The trope of the killer transgender appeared in Psycho (1960)

Jame Gumb’s gender identity is handled in a number of very problematic ways. First, her character is a classic example of the killer transgender trope, also famously present in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Transgender women are often represented as psychotic killers as a lazy method of responding to mainstream society’s fear of gender nonconforming people. This popular trope in film reinforces the idea that being transgender is unnatural and perverted, and pathologizes gender fluidity. It’s a stowaway on the Hollywood global distribution machine, reaching into countless theaters and homes around the world and embedding transphobia in the minds of a wide array of viewers.

In reality, the opposite of the killer transgender trope is true. Often, transgender people, specifically women, are the victims of hate crimes based on their gender identity. In 2012, transgender women were victims of nearly 54% of anti-LGBT related homicides. Perhaps the dehumanizing representations of these individuals in mass media helped spread the idea that transgender lives are less valuable, and by extension, murdering them is more justifiable.

In addition to crazed killers, Silence of the Lambs portrays transgender women as imposters. After analyzing the Buffalo Bill case files, Hannibal Lecter muses, “Billy hates his own identity, you see, and he thinks that makes him a transsexual, but his pathology is a thousand times more savage and more terrifying.” This quote enforces the idea that other people can determine a person’s gender identity. Although Jame Gumb was a ruthless murderer who skinned people alive, if she identified as a woman, she was a woman. If a person thinks they are transgender, they are. In real life, transgender people’s identities are often scrutinized by cisgender people. There is a fascination with the genitals of transgender people, based upon the erroneous idea that one’s sexual organs determine gender. In a recent interview with Orange is the New Black actress Laverne Cox and RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant Carmen Carrera, Katie Couric asked Carrera, “Your private parts are different now, aren’t they?” This display of cisgender privilege (a cisgender actress would never be asked about her genitals) threatened to derail an otherwise constructive discussion about gender. Ultimately, the condition of Carrera’s genitalia bears no relation to her womanhood.

Transgender women are often represented as psychotic killers as a lazy method of responding to mainstream society’s fear of gender nonconforming people. This popular trope..[is] a stowaway on the Hollywood global distribution machine, reaching into countless theaters and homes around the world and embedding transphobia in the minds of..viewers.

A closer look at the diction of Lecter’s quote reveals more subtle issues. His use of the word “more” before “savage” and “terrifying” implies that there are savage and terrifying elements to actual transgender people. Since Hannibal Lecter is a serial killer himself, one might question his credibility as an arbiter of the film’s overall message. However, in addition to being a sociopathic serial killer, he was also a brilliant psychiatrist, whose analysis of the Buffalo Bill case files led to Gumb’s ultimate demise. His views regarding Gumb are highly regarded and portrayed as astoundingly accurate. Therefore, his psychoanalysis of Gumb represents the ultimate message of the film itself and should be seriously considered.

One of the most memorable scenes in Silence of the Lambs is the one where Gumb dresses up in a flowing cloth, tucks her penis between her legs, and poses in front of a mirror, all while wearing the hair and scalp of one of her victims. This scene is often touted as the film’s most disturbing moment. Buffalo Bill is supposed to be scary not only because she murders and skins her victims, but because she is male-bodied in women’s clothing. The “cross-dressing” is portrayed as especially sinister and perverted, but to stand or dance in front a mirror with one’s penis tucked between her legs is an exercise many transgender women actually perform. The film distorts this completely normal and often empowering activity with the juxtaposition of Catherine Martin screaming for help from the bottom of a dry well in the background. Real life transgender people may internalize this scene, and think that they should hide their non-normative gender expressions at the expense of their emotional well-being.

In addition to demonizing and stigmatizing gender fluidity, Silence of the Lambs idealizes normative gender expression. Conformity to gender roles is seen as innocent, an antithesis to gender variance. This is emphasized in the scene in which Gumb applies lipstick as she utters the chilling line, “Would you fuck me? I’d fuck me. I’d fuck me hard.” This scene is cut at the same time as Martin screams from the bottom of the well, just as the lambs screamed. Nobody could hear Martin, she was effectively silenced. The film showed a few seconds of Gumb, then switched back to a few seconds of Martin. Martin is illustrated as the innocent victim, conforming to the gendered damsel in distress trope, in contrast to Gumb, who is the gender-bending killer.

It is important to identify transphobia in films for a variety of reasons. In addition to media reflecting the prevalent attitudes and ideas of a society, media can also shape the ideas of a society. The negative representations of transgender people in visual media, especially film, contribute to their overall discrimination. In addition to the disproportionate amount of transgender women killed in anti-LGBT homicides, there is a high frequency of suicide among this subjugated population. 41% of Americans who are transgender or gender nonconforming have attempted suicide at least once in their lives. This startling statistic may be related to the lack of positive media representation for transgender people. Identifying transphobia and cissexism in film is a means of placing the responsibility back on media corporations and holding them accountable for how they portray marginalized groups. Fair portrayals of oppressed groups of people leads to an awareness of their real life issues. For transgender people, such issues include job discrimination, violence, healthcare, and exclusion in a variety of spaces. In real life, transgender people are not the killers, but rather the innocent victims of horrific hate crimes. The film Silence of the Lambs ignores this fact, effectively silencing the lambs.

Savannah Staubs

Savannah Staubs is an undergraduate sociology major and activist at University of Maryland, College Park. She skillfully avoids employment by illustrating zines, collecting leaf skeletons, playing her ukulele, and studying environmental justice.

94 Comments

Moth

1/8/2015 10:40:17 pm

While I agree that the movie itself is transphobic, I feel it important to also note that in contrast to the film's cissexism and demonizing of transgender people, in the eponymous novel by Thomas Harris, there is a segment that covers some of the territory you did. In chapter 28, Crawford visits Dr. Danielson, who works at the Gender Identity Clinic. Danielson notes, much like you did, that statistics prove that among transgender people, "The incidence of violence is a lot lower than in the general population". While this does not excuse a lot of the transmedicalist and cissexist references to trans people -- in both the novel and film -- it's interesting that the author considered putting that in.

Louis Friend

2/12/2015 12:46:33 am

It seems to me that this article and your comment are really stretching here. I'm fairly sure the movie says "that transsexuals are generally very placid and not violent" or words that effect. Also how many transgender killers are there in movies, i can find four. Which to my mind hardly constitutes a massive attempt at demonizing people. Furthermore none of the people represented are the way they're by dint of being transgender (I'd say the one in camp sleepaway isn't really transgender at all) but have rather snapped after terrible abuse. In most cases of serial killers particularly white men (just a general comment, no other meanings or insinuation) they are seen to be evil due to their inherent nature. Instead transgender people get a more of an out by having been portrayed as have been driven to their actions rather than actively seeking them out. So while you may disagree with the terminology in the film and you have a right to do so. It seems that attacking it simply for portraying someone who wants a sex change as capable of evil on the grounds of trans-phobia falls flat when the movie goes to some pains to point out the Jame Gumb is so vast an exception to the rule as to almost qualify for a different category.

Amy

6/27/2015 11:49:06 pm

There are countless instances in the media of negativity toward's non gender variant. The key thing here is that there are few instances prior to 2005 where this group is portrayed in a neutral or positive manner. This also has to do with the historically straight male dominated control centers in the media.

First off, the diagnosis in the movie that one who can have a desire to transition but is not even transgender is far reach and not rooted in reality. It's like when some say Obama isn't really black as he only one half black. It's actually taps into another problem trans folks have had to take on, that is the historic denial by the medical establishment of the keys to transition based on some arcane protocols to allow transition. Secondly the mention that transsexuals are actually rather passive is sexist. Its akin to saying most women are passive. Most importantly, what your missing here is very few people will remember the actual diagnosis but none forgets the twisted transsexual. I'm am living proof in that I am MTF trans and a butch lesbian I am dating who has a 22 yr old daughter mentioned the transsexual in the silence of the lambs to her butch mother possibly as a half joke to watch out for me. Even if it was in jest, the movie obviously left a strong negative impression in her mind.

Amy

6/28/2015 12:01:56 am

The most important thing that people are missing is it doesn't matter if the subject is a textbook transsexual. This person is clearly gender variant in the feminine direction and is thus fair game. It speaks directly to societies attitude that feminine expression (especially from a male) or being female is a second class position. This is exactly how straight male dominated society thinks.

Ice Bergen

10/30/2015 12:06:57 am

Silence of the Lambs won 4 academy awards. You aren't trans I assume, you don't know how it affects someone who is. I am trans, I know. Maybe my experience can't be generalized, but I reckon it can.

Billy Rubin

6/21/2017 06:31:39 pm

You are CORRECT. Early in the movie, Clarice Starling insists to Dr. Lecter, "there's no correlation between (in this case) transvestites and violence. Transvestites are very passive..."

Demme himself stated that he wanted to make clear that the movie is not about a psychopathic killer who is a psychopathic killer because he is a "not-typical person" (i.e., transgender). The movie makes quite a bit of effort to explain that Buffalo Bill is a psychopathic killer because he was ABUSED.

Jodie Foster is a lesbian. Is she transphobic for accepting the role of Clarice Starling?

David Warner played a super creepy Jack the Ripper in 1979's "Time After Time". Should straight men claim that this film vilfies them because Jack the Ripper is a psychopathic killer who preys upon prostitutes?

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3/14/2018 06:01:35 am

Read Marcus Aurelius, in everything ask what it is in itself, was is it’s nature.

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2/17/2015 04:22:34 am

From reading this article I can see that either A) You didn't watch the film with your full attention and you missed key parts or B) You watched the film but you had a preconceived notion that you would find it offensive/transphobic...and because of that, your judgement was blurred.
You said 'Throughout the film, it is revealed that Buffalo Bill is a transgender woman' but it is VERY explicit in this film that Buffalo is not a real transsexual. Dr. Lecter literally says 'Billy is not a real transsexual. But he thinks he is. He tries to be'. Lecter then goes on to explain that Bill was rejected from sexual reassignment clinics due to childhood disturbances associated with violence. He remarks that Bill hates his own identity so he thinks that makes him a transsexual but he is not. Lecter says that Bill's pathology is 'a thousand times more savage and more terrifying'.
Despite all of this you said, unbelievably: 'His use of the word “more” before “savage” and “terrifying” implies that there are savage and terrifying elements to actual transgender people'.
Where you even watching the film? Talk about misunderstanding quotations and then using them completely out of context. It seems that you are just trying to find things to be offended by.
I understand that transphobia is a problem and it is important that the media does not demonise transsexuals but this is not an example of 'Hollywood promoting transphobia' simply because the killer/villain in this film is NOT transsexual. In the screenplay Starling even says: 'there's no correlation in the literature between transsexualism and violence. Transsexuals are very passive'.
need to proof read it
ignore that last one
heres my comment
From reading this article I can see that either A) You didn't watch the film with your full attention and you missed key parts or B) You watched the film but you had a preconceived notion that you would find it offensive/transphobic...and because of that, your judgement was blurred.
You said 'Throughout the film, it is revealed that Buffalo Bill is a transgender woman' but it is VERY explicit in this film that Buffalo is not a real transsexual. Dr. Lecter literally says 'Billy is not a real transsexual. But he thinks he is. He tries to be'. Lecter then goes on to explain that Bill was rejected from sexual reassignment clinics due to childhood disturbances associated with violence. He remarks that Bill hates his own identity so he thinks that makes him a transsexual but he is not. Lecter says that Bill's pathology is 'a thousand times more savage and more terrifying'.
Despite all of this you said, unbelievably: 'His use of the word “more” before “savage” and “terrifying” implies that there are savage and terrifying elements to actual transgender people'.
Were you even watching the film? Talk about misunderstanding quotations and then using them completely out of context.
I understand that transphobia is a problem and it is important that the media does not demonise transsexuals but this is not an example of 'Hollywood promoting transphobia' simply because the killer/villain in this film is NOT transsexual. In the screenplay Starling even says: 'there's no correlation in the literature between transsexualism and violence. Transsexuals are very passive'.
You should stop blatantly looking for things to be offended by... because look at the stupid article it gave rise to.

Ice Bergen

10/30/2015 12:10:49 am

It is not "VERY explicit," it is mentioned as an offhand muse of Hannibal Lector. Should the audience be wise enough to believe a cannibal villain, as smart as he may be?

Transsexuals are very passive" is hardly a nice thing, just another stereotype." It contrasts the killer in Buffalo Bill, sure. It might be generally true, sure. But saying that is just another stereotype representing transsexuals.

You aren't transsexual, I doubt you can concieve of how this would affect a transsexual mind.

Lorelei

2/24/2018 05:42:42 pm

As a transwoman, and a HUGE lover of the book and film, I agree at least mostly with Eva. It is stated several times in the film and book that Bill is not a true transsexual, and instead that Bill is something very different. I would also like to say that while there are several fictional killers who impersonate the opposite sex I dont see any of them being actual trans people of any kind; ex. Norman Bates was not dressing as a woman because he believed he was a woman, but dressed as his mother specifically because of psychological issues that revolved around her. These characters may, to someone not paying attention, seem like a trans person but in reality their actions and impersonations aren't based on sexuality or gender identity but instead stem from trauma. Bill didn't become a killer because he wanted to be a woman and couldn't get a reassignment surgery, it's stated that he had actually already killed his grandparents completely not connected to his pattern of making a woman suit, he had already murdered his ex lover, whose head Starling finds. Also other than a single time in which he tucks himself, which I believe is something just about every boy did at least once in their formative years if not later in life, Bill is never presenting female. Even when, to Bill, he is presenting female it is in no way done in the way any transsexual ot transgender person actually would. Being transgender means wanting to feel beautiful in ones own skin, not wear someone else's. At no point on time could Bill have thought, "once this skin suit is done I'll be wearing it all the time out of the house. His identity problems were about a private sadistic gratification, not any form of gender dysphoria. I think that the early set up of it being said, "as an expert/trained psychologist he is not transsexual" is where they basically shut down your ideas that this film/book is transphobic. Also, as Bill is based on several true to life killers who equally were not trans but did things like Bill that may have seemed trans. As for the wording and stereotyping; statistics aren't stereotypes and how can you say an audience isn't quick enough to catch them State plainly that Bills not transsexual but expect people to catch a single sentence that may have undertones of transphobia in its wording.

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Liam

6/16/2016 09:26:27 pm

Thank you, this entire article was obviously created by someone who wasn't paying very much attention to the film, maybe the author should have reviewed his/her notes before posting the article!

Sofia

7/13/2016 02:24:53 am

Yes, even though the comment was kind of rude and aggressive, I agree.
Hannibal Lector's relationship with Clarice was already established as give and take. The information Lector provided Clarice was presented as truth and never disproven, so it seems as though Buffalo Bill was not transgender.
More importantly, Silence of the Lambs never presented cis men/women relationships as innocent. Silence of the Lambs repeatedly demonstrated the unfair/disgusting way stereotypical cisgender males treat women. The creepy flirtations from Fred Chilton, Miggs' lewd act, Lector asking about Starling's sexual fantasies, the FBI agent disrespecting Starling in the room full of officers specifically because she is a woman (even though he knows better), the advances from the scientist friends, etc..All of these cisgender men demonstrated disrespect toward women and to me the dangers/disturbing effect of cis men (who covet) was a greater theme in the film.
That being said, generalizing transgender people as "passive" is dehumanizing and the cross dressing man found in Lector's storage unit can be seen as a negative portrayal of people who do not conform to gender norms. The shot of his made-up face was meant to evoke shock and disgust rather than empathy.
I apologize if I offend any transgendered people by saying all this. I don't understand what it's like to be faced with so much hatred and I hope Hollywood changes its way of depicting non gender conforming people.

GratefulJoeNJ

1/12/2017 08:38:08 am

You missed the critical ASSUMPTION that the author present.s as FACT. THAT IS: you are transgender if you say you are.

Roberts

3/14/2017 03:09:05 am

That's factually incorrect, Transgender is day to day term for a medical condition called body dismorphia which in turn is diagnonsed by a trained medical proffesional. You don't decide you are trans-you either are or are not, your personal desires are irrelivant.

Paul Krendler

10/16/2017 06:25:04 am

You said everything I was going to. Couldn't have said it better myself. Completely agree.

An Idiot

6/24/2018 11:06:02 pm

I agree that Bill is clearly not meant to be a true transexual person . The "savage and terrifying" line is the clincher. In it, Lecter explains to us quite succinctly whats going on. Dude doesn't have actual gender dysphoria. He just hates himself and is a super sick puppy.

I also take issue with the idea that cishat sexuality is displayed with any meaningful form of innocence. Did you somehow miss every single dude in the movie creeping nastily on agent Starling? It isn't particularly subtle. She also ends up willingly going with Hannibal, although this is outside the scope of this particular movie.

Movies, like many forms of art, can be many things to many people. But in this case I definitely don't feel the facts that this critique point to line up in the way it claims they do. This sort of misdirected outrage is unwise for several reasons imo. First, it makes you sad and upset when there is no reason to be. Second, it distracts from truly poor representations of transexual people in media. We each only have so much time and attention to give, after all. Finally, it adds to the perception that trans people and allies are unrightfully histrionic.

The author's writing style is quite readable and their heart seems to be in the right place. I'd be glad if after reading the feedback, they realized it would be better if they didnt play it so fast and loose with the details to make a work (poorly) seem to conform to their biases and preconceptions.

Joe Flynn

6/25/2018 03:21:36 am

This and many of the other responses in this thread are thoughtful rejoinders to the lead. Every human being has some touch at least of pathology. The main point of the doctor's comment is that someone trying to be something they are not will inevitably have deeper pathology than the real article. Just look at the spectacle off all these faux Chrstians running around these days. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. People pretending to be Christians when they are not have fallen quite a bit further than the average genuine Christian.

Alex

2/21/2015 03:53:38 pm

If you read the book, it very thoroughly explains a few aspects of trans women and the process they have to go through. There is even a scene in the book where Crawford, the behavioral science section chief, has a talk with a doctor at John's Hopkins, and this doctor asserts over and over that trans people are not crazy, and that they need help and understanding. This and other scenes are not in the film, but they explicitly point out in the film that Bill is not transsexual. Bill is in essence the kind of person who would see a transsexual woman the way he depicts one, I think. He thinks that if he becomes a woman/adult/his mother, he will be free from his mental anguish (this is what the butterfly/moth symbolism is referring to, according to Lecter the the butterfly is a symbol of ones parent, or ones ability to become an adult). It becomes clear, in the book at least, that he's trying to sort of "replace" his mother by being a woman. He both hates her (for abandoning him) and worships her. I'm one of those people who usually favors the book over the movie, but I'd say the film definitely doesn't explain enough to deter ignorant people from associating trans women and Buffalo Bill based on imagery alone. I don't know, the film is one thing, but if you read the book there is a lot of in depth information on trans people and it's definitely not transphobic. If anything it comments on the ignorance surrounding trans people pretty well. I wish they didn't leave that stuff out but you can only put so much into a movie.

Alex

2/21/2015 04:14:44 pm

Having said all that, I think I should point out that the trans community could do without any representation that is too easy to misinterpret as negative. I'm sure a lot of people didn't read the book, and the imagery in the film is enough to add to the negative, but likely common, mental image of a trans woman as a crazy man in a dress. For this reason I think they should have put a lot of the scenes they left out into the movie, instead of presenting it as a horror film full of monstrous stereotypes. If you read the series, even Lecter turns out to be a trauma victim from the second world war, who needs extensive mental health care. The film certainly demonizes the mentally ill by portraying the characters without putting any emphasis on the background information. It also portrays Starling in a much more sexist light than the book does. The entomologists Starling consults are portrayed as almost mentally deficient in the film, whereas in the book they are just regular nerdy guys who are professional and well educated. They have to make movies this way to sell them to widest audience possible, so I'd have to agree with your main point at least, effectively this film does little for the real life equivalent of the people it portrays.

Chris Vouzoukos link

2/21/2015 10:35:02 pm

It occurred to me while watching this film for the tenth time that there would be outrage, so I’ve paused it, and first search engine result? Your Blog! Wow! Where to start? I don’t know if you’re transgendered or just a bleeding heart liberal seeking to rid the world of hurt feelings, but I have to agree with the other posts that you’re way off on this.

You state “it is revealed that Buffalo Bill is a transgender woman.” Buffalo Bill is a man, a killer of women, a psycho! In fact Lecter states, and you quote, “Billy hates his own identity, you see, and he thinks that makes him a transsexual” Lecter, a psychiatrist, a medical practitioner specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness, points out that Buffalo Bill is NOT a Transexual! He applied for sex reassignment surgery and was rejected, because he’s NOT a Transexual! The film makes the point that this person is not transgendered but just a psycho! But you insist on referring to that character as “she” and “transexual”. This and other language you use betrays your militancy on this issue.

On a number of occasions you say “her penis”, or Anti-LGBT or, my personal favourite, Cisgender! CISGENDERED? What the fuck is that? Tried looking that up in my dictionary and guess what, it’s not even a word. It’s a creation of twisted minds! The same twisted minds that see this as a Transphobic film. Oops! Transphobia another non-existent word. Since I’m looking up stuff, here’s another definition for you PENIS : THE MALE GENITAL ORGAN! By definition, if you have one (a penis) you’re male!!! Now I understand that some people are afflicted with this disorder, have it rough, and that sexual identity doesn’t always correspond with the sex organs one is born with, but can we tone down the militancy? Based on which, you’ll probably take exception to me using the word disorder, however words have assigned meanings and disorder is appropriate as it means: abnormal condition. And here’s another definition, ABNORMAL : Deviating from what is normal or usual. You’ll most likely take exception to that word too! But people who are transgender are a very small minority, some estimates are as low as 0.03% of the population. Therefore not the norm, not usual.

You use the phrase “Cisgendered Privilege” however your militancy betrays transgendered privilege, where one may not discuss these issues unless, one is in the transgendered spectrum. This is all ridiculous, instead of fostering empathy in those who are not in the spectrum you drive the conversation into the extremes by taking words changing their meanings so that there no longer is any common ground. So if you want to have a discourse on the plight of a very small minority of people save the militant language, it makes people weary. People like me who are center left, have Gay friends but are growing tired of the militancy and consequently tuning out.

Alex

2/23/2015 10:39:22 am

Dude, I have to agree with you that the trans community is filled with ridiculously convoluted, and seemingly arbitrary rules. I am trans myself and I think that trans people are doing more harm than good being so oversensitive. I want you to know that not all of us are like that. I can grasp that this isn't easy to understand, and it's up to us not to ask for SO MUCH when it comes to how people deal with us. It drives me nuts when trans people expect non-trans people to memorize all these rules. Having the right to medical care and legal protection is a real issue. I think it's kind of self absorbed to expect people to tiptoe around us, I mean how is that going to get us any closer to being accepted? Most people in the trans community who freak out about silly details are venting their frustration most of the time, and it's important to recognize how they feel, I think. While I'd encourage you to try and understand, I really do think you're point is valid. We will never be accepted if everyone else has to memorize a rule book just to talk to us.

If you feel like learning a few things, this podcast is pretty entertaining and insightful, and it brings up a lot of the issues you stated. It's long but it's worth watching if you have the time:
http://youtu.be/vFe1xEGtpjA

Also, read my above comments if you want.

Chris Vouzoukos link

1/27/2016 08:43:58 pm

Alex, first of all let me apologize if my tone came across as militant. I want to avoid that. Secondly I cannot fathom what it must be like to be afflicted with the sense that you do not feel right in the body you were born in, and the hell that must be. So I sympathize while I cannot empathize. It's just that since the last decade many in the LGBT community have ratcheted up the political rhetoric and have become more militant to the point where many people have been alienated from the cause of equality. Many of us who have supported the LGBT community in the past have been labeled homophobic or transphobic if we do not tow the political line. In fact one of my former employers was dragged into court by a LGBT activist group for political reason after years of support for that community. So please accept my apology, my rant was born out of frustration, but that must pale in comparison to the frustration you must feel every day!

dan

7/11/2015 10:34:32 pm

cisgender got put in the dictionary this year actually

Katie

9/5/2015 04:34:46 am

Let's maybe pause for a moment and recognize the irony in using caps and multiple exclamation marks (goodness!) to assert that PENISES ARE MALE THAT MEANS HE'S MALE END OF STORY, in going out of your way to use words that you assume will irritate someone, and in then accusing them of militancy for using words that you don't like. Now I understand that some people like you and me have it easy because enough of the various biological components of sex line up with our gender (and let's be clear, scientists have found it awfully hard to agree upon a definition for sex as simple as "your genitals look like a penis" http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2009/09/14/when-someone-is-raised-female-and-the-genes-say-xy), but can we tone down the militancy?

Look, the thing is that from a practical standpoint it doesn't matter as much as it should that the film and the book take a quick moment to lampshade this with "nope, definitely not trans, don't go making assumptions about trans people now." People are going to do that anyway, because they spent ten seconds listening to Hannibal say Buffalo Bill isn't "real trans" but the lingering image of "a sicko man wearing a woman's scalp and dancing around in a dress" is going to be what they remember when they think about the film. Cinema's a visual medium and words just don't carry the same weight.

Chris Vouzoukos link

1/27/2016 08:52:05 pm

Katie, my intention was not to irritate people, but I have noticed that people use words without knowing their meaning, or through laziness, hear an authority figure use a word improperly and then feel they can do the same. What this does is make any common ground of understanding impossible, as different people have different associations of common words. So if the purpose of language is to help people to communicate, but everyone has a different definition of what a word means, there can never be any communication or understanding, can there?

Ray

10/21/2016 05:42:08 pm

This is really a reply to Chris' comment below, which, for me, lacks a reply button.

Chris: Your question below reflects that your initial post was an act of aggression. Here's why:

Dialogue always involves both active speaking and active listening. Active listening requires the listener to do the work of trying to understand what someone else means. Take for instance pronouns. If you're not paying attention you'll have no idea what a pronoun refers to. Active speaking also means, sometimes, inventing new words and redefining old words to describe concepts that either didn't exist before or were understood differently. The transgender community, through the voice it has recently found (with recent here meaning recent on the scale of thousands of years of written history) is adapting old words and inventing new words to give voice to our experience. Since we members of this community literally never had a shared voiced language before, by necessity we have to invent words to describe our concepts. But this is a normal part of the process of speaking and listening. It happens all the time. The world didn't come to a standstill when the word "internet" was first used. Nor did anything untoward happen when "computer" stopped meaning person who computes and started meaning a particular kind of machine. And, separately, so many words have more than one meaning and varying connotations that it seems silly to provide an example. Nonetheless, sex is a great example. It can mean at least any of the following (without causing confusion in the receptive listener): (1) the act of copulation - whether with or without biological reproduction which is a meaning that has varied historically without confusing anybody; (2) the category that includes male, female, bisexual (see, e.g., the plant kingdom), and asexual (again see plants), among others; or even (3) the act of assessing a life form's distinction within the aforementioned category.

So, in short, no, it is literally not true that any chance of communication or understanding is precluded by using new words or having multiple, varying meanings to a word or even redefining old words.

Now to the point. The article contains no evidence that a single word was used "without knowing [its] meaning" or parroted based on the misuse of a person in a position of authority. This gets to the actual point you didn't realize you were making. The article uses language that is foreign to YOU and makes YOU feel uncomfortable because YOU do not understand it. But that reflects on you, not the author or what the author is describing. It shows that you are not listening (or reading) actively. It shows that you're being aggravated by differences you don't want to confront or think about. But, rather than take a pass on commenting on this post, you did choose to respond. And that was an act of aggression. Whether you realize it or not you were lashing out at the author and trans people for existing and challenging your preconceptions.

Ged Ein

6/2/2015 02:44:34 pm

Buffalo Bill is based on an amalgam of serial killers including Jerry Brudos, who dressed up in his victim's clothing, and Ed Gein, who actually made a female skin suit.

I would like to take a stand here and now and personally object to all authors using reality as their source material if that reality does not conform with my view of the world.

I think we can all agree on that.

Sebastian

6/3/2015 12:20:57 am

Equality means an equal chance to be the bad guy (or girl) in the movies, too. Every single Hollywood villain can't be a neo-nazi or a land developer. Not real diverse.

Doug

8/11/2015 11:34:00 pm

OK, I normally don't like commenting on an article before finishing it, but Norman Bates is not transgender at all.
If you can't understand that then there's no way you can appreciate the subtlety of Gumb's psychological condition.

Jason

9/1/2015 01:31:13 am

First, fascinating article. I am not sure if I fully agree with it yet, I will let it digest, but you make some insightful observations.

As some have noted, Buffalo Bill was based in part on real life serial killer Ed Gein. Norman Bates, who you reference, was also based in part on Ed Gein (as was Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre).

I would have liked to see you reference other transgender villains not based on Ed Gein if you are intending to make sweeping conclusions about Hollywood portrayal of transgenders (or even limiting it to the horror/thriller genre). Nevertheless, the article piqued my curiousity and I will consider your arguments the next time I watch Silence. Thanks for posting.

DaveG

8/28/2015 07:53:19 am

This screed has "Victim" written all over it.

Ice Bergen

10/31/2015 04:10:17 pm

So? Maybe you never experienced what its like to be transgender and view Silence of the Lambs, so maybe it makes sense to be victimized.

Taliah

9/10/2015 06:23:47 am

Firstly, both the book and the film explicitly state that Gumb is NOT transsexual

More generally, though, if you are looking to TAKE offense you will always find it.

Is it sexist if a dramatised serial killer is male? Would it be racist if the character were black or asian or...?

To conspicuously obsess over an explicitly non-transsexual character in a fictional movie as a source of alleged transphobia is to trivialize the very real problems that REAL transsexuals (and cisgendered people for that matter) have to face.

Are there cases of media-led misperception and prejudice held against transgender? Yes. This is not one of them.

Ice Bergen

10/31/2015 04:11:28 pm

What if we don't choose to take offense to it? What if we're not looking to find something to take offense to? What if watching this movie and being transgender automatically makes you react negatively?

C.M.Starling

3/13/2016 04:59:36 pm

Well said. In addition, in the film Clarice mentions "There's no correlation in literature between transsexualism and violence. Transsexuals are very passive--"
P.S. I am from the the American south and love everyone. "Big ups to people of all stars & stripes"

Kevin

1/4/2016 01:10:08 pm

The feminist agenda. Make men hate their own identities growing up, then convince them it is gender disphoria so they get sex reassignment surgery

Barby Days Young

3/12/2016 05:27:10 pm

Well written, easy to read. Now I actually understand a movie I've watched several to.we and never understood. I also understand your message of tolerance and love for one another. I have learned that genitals does not determine sex. And you are who you are in your head and not always your body. Thank you.

Greg

5/5/2016 03:20:22 pm

I agree Silence of the Lambs is seriously problematic. It's director, Jonathan Demme, has said as much. His statements about the film lead me to believe that the film was meant to depict someone who "thinks he's transsexual" as part of a broader pathology, not a real transgender person - an important distinction.

http://www.queerty.com/silence-of-the-lambs-director-understands-why-film-was-considered-transphobic-20140725

Even then the film is problematic. Depicting someone who "thinks he's transsexual" reinforces the falsehood that transgender people are suffering from dysphoria and are confused. And it seems likely that, as you note, Demme and others still thought of a biological man in a dress as a creepy flourish - Demme and the original author made hay out of the transgender killer trope.

That said, I don't think Demme was trying to depict transgender people as being dangerous or mentally ill. I think he saw Gumb's feelings of being a woman as part of his attempt to escape his true identity. Nonetheless, the film wound up using and reinforcing transphobic stereotypes.

Swirlingout

6/15/2016 06:44:52 pm

The film was popular in part because of its plot's feasibility. Men are violent. Men who think they are women have a lot going on.

Men are men are men are men.

Alex

7/21/2016 08:50:42 pm

You guys do know that Buffalo Bill is based on truth right? There really was a man named Ed Gein, who really did believe that he wanted a second change after his mother died, and it was only then that he started digging up women's graves and making a suit out of them, as well as murdering 2 other women himself. So really, this movie maybe does take that idea a little too far in the dancing scene, but you can't hate too much because there is so much to Bill's character that has to do with his severe mental state that makes it much more than just "trans people are crazy." I do understand however that lots of people watching this might take the things that happen in this movie to heart and think wrongly about trans people. However, I would certainly have liked this article to point out the fact that the character in this movie is based on a true person, and therefore not just the sole creation of some author and Hollywood director.

Jana Peterson

10/21/2016 12:36:07 am

You clearly did not do your homework little Starling...

The book fully states he is not transgender, but mentally ill which was why he was rejected by several hospitals for gender reassignment. There is a big difference. Do your homework. You clearly wrote this based off watching a movie and that's pretty dang lazy. It's a great book, highly recommend.

Ray

10/21/2016 04:11:20 pm

Ladies, Gents & others,

I watched this movie as a bigender teenager. This character - whether based on a real person or not - along with "Murdoc" from MacGyver, the villain from Ace Ventura based on the character from the Crying Game, all led me to associate "trans" and "dysphoria" with violent, aggressive mental illness. Literally, something to be hunted down and killed by the good guy. This movie and similar representations of "transness" cut me to the core. Because these were prominent representations with basically no counterexample, they hurt me. I found this article because I was exploring where some of my own fear of myself and my identity comes from. This article resonated with me and my experience of the movie.

Let's take a step back. No one is asking anyone to censor anything. The article makes an important point, and one that I found useful, about the representation of trans people in media. That's not asking anyone to walk around on egg shells; it is critiquing something. It is voicing something.

Now, another point. A psychiatrist's opinion, I'm sorry to have to explain, does not and cannot define someone's sexual identity or gender. Period.

Next, noting cisgendered privilege, by the way, does not make one militant either. It is only noting that some people don't have to worry about whether they fit in their own body. Having that privilege allows people to ignorantly state things like: "having a penis makes you male." This may be true for scientific sex assigned at birth, but it is not true for the sociobiological construct of gender. Having uncritical cisgendered privilege also allows people to blithely state that having a very small number of trans people in the general population some how makes it less problematic to have only a handful of negative representations out there of people associated with being trans. Most people have at least some identity where they are not privileged. Please think from that vulnerable part of yourself before engaging in conversations like these.

Of course, it's my folly to engage any body online. People are very willing to say things online that they would never say to my face when it rests on a 6'5", 220 lb body wearing the suit and demeanor of an aggressive trial lawyer. Trolls are trolls are trolls whatever their identity. And, sorry, but anyone who takes offense at being called out for their privilege is a troll.

If you're still listening, I will explain briefly. I walk around in a white male body, usually, as I noted, in a suit reflecting my financial privilege. In other words, I am privileged in so many ways. Sometimes it is painful to recognize that I have a particular privilege. Usually it is my whiteness, but sometimes it is also my male body or relative financial stability. It is painful, I find, particularly because it makes me recognize that I do have my own unique identity rather than that I am just "normal." But that does not justify my attacking people who point out my privileges. Cisgendered privilege is no different. If you hear the word privilege, and you do not share in the community invoking the word, it means stop and listen. Think but do not speak. Perhaps stand in silent solidarity. But don't (1) take offense; (2) try to rewrite an experience with yours or (3) worse yet, try to erase an experience with "science."

To be clear, however, I am not addressing the people attacking this article. I am only adding my voice to the voice of the author and to the voices of those defending the points raised by the author. Because other trans readers deserve to know there are voices of support out there. Much love to everyone.

Liam B

2/14/2017 04:51:59 pm

The bad guy calls himself transsexual, must be transphobic. The villain is a woman, must be sexism. If the villain is gay, must be homophobic. If the villain is African-American, must be racist, etc. After the Super Bowl, there was a news article about how Islamophobic an episode of 24 was because the main villain of the episode was Muslim. This is based on the assumption that all non-White-Straight-Men are incapable of villainy, which is far more stereotypical than the movie itself. Please, inform me of all-time movie villains, and give me the numbers of how many are white men. Most. But you get one self-proclaimed transsexual serial killer in this movie and suddenly its transphobic. Makes no sense.

Ruby F.

6/20/2017 09:55:31 pm

I have always been a big fan of the film and one of my favorite things has been that I've considered it to be a feminist film. I am grateful to this article for helping me to see the transphobia in this movie. I still think that it is a fine piece of filmmaking but am troubled by what I think is unintended transphobia but transphobia nonetheless. I also still think that it goes further than most films to be blatantly feminist in many scenes, and I still love those scenes, but I realize now that it is not as enlightened as I thought. I don't think this means that I cannot appreciate the film for what it does accomplish, both artistically and culturally, but what considering this film in light of the insights in this article does do Is to offer a sensitive teaching moment: That even well-meaning, feminist-aspiring people can unintentionally transmit less than ideal portrayals of and messages about gender, and that all of us can learn and evolve by being open minded and really listening to those as thoughtful and insightful as the author of this article. This is the way that we, as a society, can do and be better, and the combination of well-meaning but perhaps sociologically less-than-perfect works of art and authors such as Savannah Staubes help us traverse such territory.

Ann

9/7/2017 02:54:23 pm

Teachable moments are teachable moments. I can clearly see how the transmisogyny label rears up. Perhaps if the psychotic killer had been a straight (cis) man, which makes more sense to me than a transvestite or transgender man/woman, since misogyny has such a long, old history, Then the idea of wearing a woman's skin to RIDICULE femininity and womanhood is far more grounded than the confused reachings of Buffalo Bill (was he abused, was he trans... we know he was psychotic), and the dance in front of the mirror could be taken as serious or ridicule, as I've known cis guys who've done same. But as the stylings of American Psycho show, when people are seriously messed up, they do messed up things on a gargantuan scale. It is a problematic take in retrospect. Thanks for peeling off layers of an onion.

Robert

2/13/2018 11:57:36 am

Maybe I've misunderstood but wasn't a big part of Buffalo Bill's character that he WASN'T transgender?

That the only reason he wanted to change his gender was because of psychological abuse?

I'm pretty sure there is a line in the film where Hannibal explicitly states that Bill "isn't transsexual".

Dave

3/2/2018 07:33:10 pm

This movie is awesome because it portrays the fundamental TRUTH about Transgender people - they are psychologically ill.

Notice how the writer calls it a him then a her after it wears a wig and a dress and tucks its penis in between it's legs.

Now "he" is a "her" according to the writer of this article.

Stupid idiots. "He" is a "he". Doesn't matter how many dresses it wears or surgeries or hormones it's a he and will always be a he.

Rosemary

5/14/2018 05:25:31 pm

Why are you trying to treat us trans people as if we aren't human?

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SPCE

8/29/2018 11:40:56 am

In Psycho, Norman Bates was definitely not transgender. The psychiatrist in the film is even asked if Norman is a “transvestite,” and the doctor replies that he is not. He then proceeds to point out the differences between someone dressing up in women’s clothes to achieve a personal satisfaction, and Norman’s case. He was literally just dressing up like his mother because his mental illness led him to believe that he was her. That’s all. Even when I was younger, the idea of him being trans never crossed my mind, and I thought it was ridiculous that the doctor even brought it up.

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9/17/2018 10:09:58 am

I would like to let all know that the size of your Penis really matters in your relationship or marriage. I got married to my wife about 1 month after we met on a photo studio, we lived happily for the first 3 months of our marriage until i and my wife started having quarrels at home because i couldn't satisfy her on bed with my little penis. Actually my penis was very small, it measured about 4.5 inch long on erection and i am 39 years old. My wife said it was forbidden by the women of this world. My wife started sleeping with other men outside. Sometimes i will return from work without finding my wife at home and whenever i call or ask her where she was, she will always snub at me and sometimes just tell me to go get a larger dick. All this continued for a long time and it hurt me so much that i was at the edge of breaking up on the marriage till when i read about a doctor called DR.OMOHAN. online. I never thought i could smile and be in a happy marriage again if not for the help of DR.OMOHAN. I got the doctors Emails:(dromohanherbalmedicine@gmail.com ) on the internet and i emailed him, and he got back to me with some encouraging words, he got me some herbs cream which i use for just 8 days and i began to feel the enlargement of my penis, and without surgery. This went on for a little period of about 10 days and to my surprise my wife keeps screaming that she love my big dick now. Now my wife no longer cheat on me, and my penis is now about 10.5 inches long on erection and off course very large round. And now my wife uses breasts, hips and bums enlargement. I and my wife are very happy for the help rendered to me by DR.OMOHAN , and i want to say a big thanks to Doctor for the help. You can contact the Doctor now on his Email:( dromohanherbalmedicine@gmail.com ) Am thankful to the doctor for helping me.
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9/22/2018 01:15:47 pm

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1/18/2019 01:38:01 pm

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stella sean

1/30/2019 02:21:21 am

My husband came to me and apologized for the wrongs he did and promise never to do it again. Ever since then, everything has returned back to normal. Thank you Dr bante for saving my broken Marriage. Dr bante is the best online spell caster that is powerful and genuine. Email him now today. Email him: bantespelltemple@ gmail. com Call or text him: (+2347059073543 )visit blog:http://bantespelltemple.blogspot.com

james mccall

2/3/2019 07:13:02 pm

HOW DR OKOUGBE HELPED ME ENLARGE MY PENIS SIZE FROM 3.5 INCHES TO 11 INCHES LONG AND 8.0 GIRTH
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2/7/2019 06:14:23 pm

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Alex Williams

2/8/2019 08:18:02 pm

Happy

2/9/2019 05:01:44 am

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david ken

2/12/2019 07:50:33 pm

Hello viewers around the Globe, I was despondent because i had a very small penis, about 2.5 inches soft and 4 inches hard not nice enough to satisfy a woman, i have been in so many relationship, but cut off because of my situation, i have used so many product which doctors for me, but none could offer me the help i searched for. i saw some few comments on the INTERNET about this specialist called Dr,OLU and decided to contact him on his email: Drolusolutinthome@gmail.com) so I decided to give his herbal product a try. i emailed him and he got back to me, he gave me some comforting words with his herbal pills for Penis Enlargement, Within 3 week of it, i began to feel the enlargement was surprised when she said that she is satisfied with my sex and i have got a large penis. Am so happy, thanks to Dr OLU I also learn that Dr OLU also help with Breast Enlargement Hips and Bums Enlargement etc.. If you are in any situation with a little Penis, weak ejaculation, small breast_hips_bums do get to Dr OLU now for help on his email (Drolusolutionhome@gmail.com) or add him on whatsapp line +2348140654426

alfreed siang

2/12/2019 10:29:47 pm

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Relanes Ihab

2/16/2019 01:39:03 am

Hello viewers around the Globe, I was despondent because i had a very small penis, about 2.5 inches soft and 4 inches hard not nice enough to satisfy a woman, i have been in so many relationship, but cut off because of my situation, i have used so many product which doctors prescribe for me, but none could offer me the help i searched for. i saw some few comments on the internet about this specialist called Dr, OLHIA and i decided to contact him on his {oliha.miraclemedicine@gmail.com} so I decided to give his herbal product a try. i emailed him and he got back to me, he gave me some comforting words with his herbal pills for Penis Enlargement, Within 3 week of it, i began to feel the enlargement of my penis, " and now it just 4 weeks of using his products my penis is about 9 inches longer, and i had to settle out with my Ex girlfriend Ella, i was surprised when she said that she is satisfied with my sex and i have got a large penis. Am so happy, thanks to Dr OLIHA I also learn that Dr OLIHA also help with Breast Enlargement Hips and Bums Enlargement etc.. If you are in any situation with a little Penis, weak ejaculation, small breast_hips_bums do get to Dr OLIHA now for help on his email {oliha.miraclemedicine@gmail.com} or whats app him number: +2349038382931

steve

2/17/2019 06:09:30 pm

There are still real herbal doctors out there, despite the fact that there are lot of scammers out there that claim to be doctors, I got my penis enlarged with the help of Dr. Okpoko, and he also provided remedy for me which cured me from premature ejaculation and erectile dysfunction, I haven't been able to satisfy my wife since I got married, until I decided to check online on the internet if I could get help to my problem, so luckily I met his email address on one of the site I checked, I saw where his email was posted with a testimonial of how he help cured a guy from erectile dysfunction, so I decided to contact him and explain to him my own present predicament, and he promised to help me out, I thought he was trying to take advantage of me and just get my money because I have lost a lot of money in the past trying to get over this problem, but to my greatest surprise, he actually provided a solution for me as we agreed, after he received money from me to get the items he used in preparing the remedy he sent to me,
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THANK YOU FOR READING

noah james

2/22/2019 06:22:11 am

Hello everyone, am very happy to share this little awesome testimony about Dr olu a great herbal doctor who help me enlarge my penis size.3.2 cm to 8.3 cm longer with his herbal cream mixture, my girlfriend is now so amazed with the autonomous size of my penis , if you you are also in need of help on how to enlarge your penis to become bigger and stronger I adverse you to contact Dr on his email (drolusolutionhome@gmail.com) ) you or contact on whatsapp number +2348140654426 because he is one of the best herbal doctor that i can only show you up to, if your penis is 4.2 cm and want to get it reach 9.2 cm within three weeks i Dr olu is also specialized on obey m breast and boobs enlargement i advise you to contact him for help

caluss

2/23/2019 02:48:58 am

I am very happy for posting on this blog on how a great spell caster helped me to bring back the love of my life. I know there are lots of women like me out there who has done so much to have back their Husband, I am here to tell you the answer is right here. I sincerely believe if there are up to five spell casters like Dr. isong this world would be a better place, I have seen people complaining on how fake spell castes promised to help them but couldn't. with Dr isong I tell you your problem is already solved because i experienced alot when my Husband and I had been apart for 4years and I couldn't bear living without him, I have tried everything to have him back but nothing was working until I saw numerous testimonies about a spell caster call Dr isong on how great his work is. I contacted him immediately and follow the step that he ask and in the next 48 hours my husband called me and was eager for my forgiveness and that he wished nothing more than to have me in his arms forever. I filled so much joy and happiness that I found Dr isong. I hope you all here will find this testimony of mine and get your husband back in just 48 hours isong contact is drisongspellhome@gmail.com you can also call or whatsapp him on +2347063612587.

williams pater

2/26/2019 08:08:34 pm

Hello everyone i Am williams pater and i am from USA i am here to give my testimony about an herbal doctor called Dr,olu I was heartbroken because i had very small penis,not nice to satisfy a woman, i have been in so many relationship, but cut off because of my situation, i have used so many product which doctors prescribe for me, but could not offer me the help i searched for. i saw some few comments on the internet about this specialist called Dr,OLU and decided to email him on his email i saw on the internet,(drolusolutionhome@gmail.com ) so I decided to give his herbal product a try. i emailed him and he got back to me, he gave me some comforting words with his herbal product for Penis Enlargement, Within three weeks of me use it, i began to feel the enlargement, " and now it just 4 weeks of using his products my penis is about 8 inches longer, and i had to settle thing out with my ex girlfriend , i was surprised when she said that she is satisfied with my performance in bed and i now have a large penis.thanks to DR OLU for is herbal product. you can also reach him with emsil drolusolutionhome@gmail.com though is..number WHATASPP him today on this number [ +2348140654426 ]

denail

3/2/2019 11:28:04 am

I want to share a testimony of how Dr.Omohan herbal mixture cream saves me from shame and disgrace, my penis was a big problem to me as the size was really so embarrassing,and i was also having weak erection problem. I can't make love to my wife and my penis was just too small a full grown man like me having 4 inches penis and to worsen it i don't last in sex i cant even last two minutes it was really a thing of shame to me. My wife was really tired of me because my sex life was very poor,she never enjoyed sex,i was always thinking and searching for solutions everywhere until when i saw a testimony of how Dr.omohan herbal mixture cream have been helping people regarding their sex life, so i decided to give him a try and to my greatest surprise in less than one week of taking the herbs my penis grow to 8 inches i couldn't believe my eyes and as i speak now my penis is now 8 inches and i do not have week erection again. I can make love to my wife longer in bed. And my marriage is now stable,my wife now enjoy me very well in bed. can contact him dromohanherbalmedicine@gmail.com or call or what-apps him through +2348164816038. . .he also specialize on the following things

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Thanks for the Enlarging my penis sir, you indeed save my marriage...I am really grateful sir,

david ken

3/8/2019 06:32:43 pm

Sonna Anderson

3/18/2019 12:17:57 pm

Its a pleasure for me to write this testimony about how i got my Genital Herpes cured a month ago. i have been reading so many comments of some people who were cured from various diseases by Dr .Agbonhale, but i never believed them. I was hurt and depressed so I was too curious and wanted to try Dr. Agbonhale , then i contacted him through his email when i contact him, he assured me 100% that he will heal me, i pleaded with him to help me out. My treatment was a great success, he healed me just as he promised. he sent me his medication and ask me to go for check up after one weeks of taking the medication. i agreed with him i took this medication and went for check up a , to my greatest surprise my result was negative after the treatment, i am really happy that i am cured and healthy again. I have waited for 3weeks to be very sure i was completely healed before writing this testimony. I did another blood test one week ago and it was still Herpes negative. so i guess its time i recommend anyone going through Herpes HSV-1 or HSV-2, HIV, HPV, Hepatitis B, Diabetes, Cancer reach him through Email dragbonhaleherbalhome@gmail.com OR add on whatsapp +2349073130326.

sherni maram

3/18/2019 11:17:12 pm

What else can I say about him, today am very grateful to him as I am finally cured of herpes disease that I have been eating me up for over a year and 6 months.After searching for different means to get my self cure but nothing seems to work out,Behold today i can boldly stand and testify to the world at large that with the help of an herbal medicine,I have found myself back to my feet and healthy again in just after few days that i got in contact with a GOD sent man,through help on a blog which talk about herpes cure,how she was cured through the herbal medicine too which was sent to her from doctor Dr Adeola.So i decided to give this great man a try by contacting him via his email and mobile no,explained to him what my problems his and he told me all would be fine and well by the time he his done with is own work that i just have to believe in him which i did ,low and behold,today i am very happy as it was just all like a magic that is why i have come here to testify to the world at large and also to share my experience because I know there are many people out there who are also in searching for cure to one disease or the other,you can as well get Dr Adeola the great now for herbal medicine help through his contact address on dradeolaherbalhome@gmail.com also on mobile wha'sapp no +2349027752454 as i fully believe he is able and capable also getting rid of disease like
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HPV
CANCER
ALS. ..

DOROTHY LISA

3/19/2019 06:02:49 am

My name is DOROTHY LISA, I want to share a great testimony on this website on how great a man called Prophet Abulele helped me in getting pregnant, me and my husband have been trying to have a baby for over 12 years, but they were no luck so we decided to contact the family doctor and after all the test have been done, he said to us that my Fallopian tube is not functioning. then one day I was in the office when a friend of mine who had the same problem with me, got her baby after she contacted Prophet Abulele. she directed me to him and when I contacted him through his email: prophetabulelehealingtemple@gmail.com and he prayed for me and sen+t me an herbal medicine, which I took for few days and in 3 weeks’ time, as he told me, i was feeling somehow and I went to meet the family doctor who told me that I am pregnant. if you know that you have a similar problem like this, or any fertility issue and you want to be pregnant you can contact Prophet Abulele: prophetabulelehealingtemple@gmail.com OR WhatsApp him on +2349022406159

john peter

3/22/2019 12:31:39 pm

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WEAK ERECTION
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PROSTRATE CANCER
HIV/AIDS
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ALS
HPV 123
PILE
ASTHMA
HEART FAILURE
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cathy

3/23/2019 12:46:17 am

Be careful About many doctors,and testimonies claiming they can cure Herpes or they were been cured,I was scam 3 times Not Until someone refer me to Mrs Okojie who do what I called magic because after I contacted her she send me medication to use and within 7 days my herpes was gone.if any body need help she can be reach via email at mrsokojiehealinghomeforall@gmail.com

jewell

4/5/2019 06:42:09 am

Hello all my viewers My name is KAREN from USA!I am very happy for sharing this great testimonies,The best thing that has ever happened in my life is how I won the euro million mega jackpot. I am a woman who believe that one day I will win the lottery. finally my dreams come through when I email Dr clement. and tell him I need the lottery numbers. I have spend so much money on ticket just to make sure I won. But I never know that winning was not so easy like that until the day I meant the spell caster online which so many people has talked about that he is very powerful of casting any kind of spell gambling spell,so I decide to give it a try.I contacted this great Dr and he did a spell and he gave me the winning lottery numbers. But believe me when the draws were out I was among winners. I win seven million Dollar. Dr. clement truly you are the best you make me won seven millions dollar through lottery.I am so very happy to meet you dr, I will be forever be grateful to you dr. Email him for your own winning lottery numbers allmightbazulartemple@gmail.com or you can call him for your own help to win big money today/whatsapp +2347051758952 post by KAREN from (USA am from Florida spring Hill for reading.he can also help to cure any kind of disease or getting your ex back like, Dr clement cure all kind of disease with my herbal medicine is nice dr or getting your ex back like
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Ellie Simmons

4/7/2019 03:16:55 am

Hello everyone ,this is unbelievable,i'm not asthmatic anymore , month ago i contacted Dr Sambo for a herbal treatment for asthma , he told me that he has a herbal medicine that will make me free from asthma forever , my condition was getting worst . i never believed but i got the herbal medicine , he instructed me on how to use them , i followed his instructions religiously and to my greatest surprise i was at my friends place and she used a very concentrated perfume and i was able to stay with her till i left and we made dinner together we fried meet , i was inside smoke for a while and nothing happened , i went to the hospital for a test and the doctor confirmed that my airways are opened and no more extra mucus and its not swollen . he said he needed to know how i got this miracle and i told him about Dr Sambo , if you are asthmatic and you want to get completely healed , Dr Sambo is the only solution . inhaler will not cure you . contact him now for your total cure and thank me later Dr. Sambo his contact details seen below: divinespellhome@gmail.com
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denail

4/9/2019 12:31:39 pm

I want to share a testimony of how Dr.Omohan herbal mixture cream saves me from shame and disgrace, my penis was a big problem to me as the size was really so embarrassing,and i was also having weak erection problem. I can't make love to my wife and my penis was just too small a full grown man like me having 4 inches penis and to worsen it i don't last in sex i cant even last two minutes it was really a thing of shame to me. My wife was really tired of me because my sex life was very poor,she never enjoyed sex,i was always thinking and searching for solutions everywhere until when i saw a testimony of how Dr.omohan herbal mixture cream have been helping people regarding their sex life, so i decided to give him a try and to my greatest surprise in less than one week of taking the herbs my penis grow to 8 inches i couldn't believe my eyes and as i speak now my penis is now 8 inches and i do not have week erection again. I can make love to my wife longer in bed. And my marriage is now stable,my wife now enjoy me very well in bed. can contact him dromohanherbalmedicine@gmail.com or call or what-apps him through +2348164816038. . .he also specialize on the following things

1. HIV / AIDS
2. HERPES 1/2
3. CANCER
4. ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease)
5. Hepatitis B
6. chronic pancreatic
7. emphysema
8. COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
Thanks for the Enlarging my penis sir, you indeed save my marriage...I am really grateful sir,

Brian

4/12/2019 08:10:14 pm

(HOW MY FATHER WAS CURED FROM ALS) My father of 48 years of age got cured from ALS permanently, he was diagnosed at the age of 33 years and he have been on a sick bed for many years,he recently got cured with natural herbal treatment from Dr Oseiboh the traditional herbalist healer. I'm so happy that my father can now live a normal life with me again after many years he suffered from ALS all thanks to Dr Oseiboh, my father is now free from this deadly disease called ALS, if you are passing through the same problem you can contact him via his email you should know about his natural herbal treatment, Dr Oseiboh email is been attached to my post reach him for help droseiboh12@gmail.com or whatsapp him or call him through his phone number +2347017565415. He can also solve problem like dis. ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION, DIABETES type 1 and type 2, HERPES GENITAL WART, LOW SPERM COUNT, WEAK ERECTION, BREAST ENLARGEMENT, PROSTRATE CANCER, HIV/AIDS, PENIS ENLARGEMENT, HPV 123, PILE, ASTHMA, HEART FAILURE, PREMATURE EJACULATION, HEPATITIS A,B,C AND MANY MORE.

BOB MICHEAL

4/17/2019 07:18:44 pm

HOW DR AZIBA HELPED ME ENLARGE MY PENIS SIZE FROM 3.5 INCHES TO 11INCHES LONG AND 8.0 GROWTH
I got married 2 years ago and it just seemed that there was no excitement in my sex life. My dysfunction to perform to the best of my abilities in bed made it harder for my wife and me to have a good time during sex. And i was having the feelings that she may decide to get a divorce one day. I knew something had to be done in order to improve my sex life and to save my marriage because my marriage was already falling apart, so when i was on my Facebook page i came across a story of how Dr Aziba helped him enlarged his penis to 8ins better.so i Immediately copied the Email address of the Dr and explained to him my problem,he gave me some simply instruction which i must follow and i did easily and my friends Today, i am the happiest man on Earth, All Thanks to Dr Aziba for saving my marriage and making me a real man today.i asked him about some popular diseases like HERPES,HIV AIDS,HEPATITIS, DIABETICS, CANCERS, WART, Get Ex back ,etc....... which are affecting most people he said there is no disease without a cure , he has it all...You can as well reach the Dr below for help on your problem, for he has the solution to all...
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mooren

4/21/2019 08:14:53 am

After my boyfriend of two years broke up with me, I could barely speak without crying. I felt blindsided and didn't know what to do. I didn't know if I could get him back and the anxiety was unbearable. I spell with Dr clement, not knowing fully what to expect but knowing I needed somebody who had been there before. I wanted our relationship back and so I wanted to make sure I had all the guidance and resources possible to do that. Dr Eghika was simply wonderful. His process of work is calming and I could tell that he genuinely cared. The things that he suggested I do to get [my boyfriend] back seemed difficult, but Dr Eghika warned me that they might be. But I knew I wanted to get him back, so I followed the plan he laid out for me and the things he ask me to buy which he also helped me out for. Within the week, me and my boyfriend were back together and we are so in love! I know that it doesn't always happen that quickly, but Dr clement said, in my case, it could happen that soon - and it did! I'm so grateful and can say that if you have been broken up with and want to get that person back, Dr clement t is the best! I'll never forget how much he helped me. His contact are email:and website is www . everything is for good. webs.com allmightbazulartemple@gmail.com or whatsapp +2347051758952.and he will surely help you

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6/26/2019 08:29:13 am

Recently I have been researching transgenderism and I'm of the opinion now it may be more prevalent in Hollywood then most non-suspecting viewers would expect.
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Any additional thoughts plz comment.

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7/12/2019 12:15:50 am

Um, Buffalo Bill is not transgender. Hannibal says it himself. Buffalo Bill deluded himself into believing he has gender dysphoria and was turned down by many medical places for gender reassignment surgery because of that.

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