Silence of the Lambs is an excellent example of the way a transgender figure is othered and heteronormative gender is reinforced and stabilized. In this film, the self-castrated killer kills and skins young women to sew together a female bodysuit (Rigney). The killer's motive is the desire to possess and become an unattainable biological woman. His anger stems from the deception that he was born in the wrong body, defrauding him of what is rightfully his. In the case of The Silence of the Lambs, the film implies that biological sex is fixed at birth, that the desire to change one's biological sex is rooted in abnormality and psychosis, and that the ultimate and unattainable desire to change one's sex biological is rooted in abnormality and psychosis. sex leads to both madness and murder. The Silence of the Lambs is just one example of a number of contemporary films that portray a male-to-female character. In contrast, female to male characters, before the release of Boys Don't