Is a trans person depicted predatorily?
Browse movies, tv shows, books and more where a trans person is depicted predatorily.
A common transphobic trope is the stereotype of the trans person who wants to "trap" a cisgender heterosexual person into having sex with them. This trope is most often applied to trans women characters, but for the sake of broadness this category can apply to trans men characters as well.
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Movie • 1991 Report
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jdpamv
Buffalo Bill isn’t trans but, yes, a character who could be easily mistaken for trans and was probably trans-coded is predatory and this portrayal is harmful to trans people. (And especially to GNC people, who can overlap and also aren’t inherently predatory, seeing as the character is GNC rather than trans canonically. More on that in the Man in a Dress category, though)
Movie • 2000 Report
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jdpamv
The only trans character is sexually predatory and it's implied she only transitioned to get ahead in sports.
Movie • 1994 Report
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jdpamv
A trans woman is the main villain and her sleeping with Ace Ventura is portrayed as predatory. She’s also sexually assaulted and outed by the protagonist in a way that’s glamorized and portrayed as the right thing to do.
Movie • 1975 Report
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jdpamv
*Frank is a crossdresser/gender nonconforming. "Transvestite" was once what both crossdressers and trans people were called but the term is now deemed outdated and is often considered a slur (if not in the time and context of this film). But yes, he's sexually predatory throughout.
Video Game • 2011 Report
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thenumbereleven
Transgender woman Erica does not disclose she is trans to her partner, even after having sex with him. He is uncomfortable when this is revealed (stating that he wants his "V-Card back"), which she laughs off.
Anime • 1999 Report
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jdpamv
There’s an island full of grotesque caricatures of trans women who prey on men.
TV Show • 1997 Report
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jdpamv
Not sexually IIRC but there have been portrayals of trans women as predatory. The most notable instance was that one where a trans woman (or someone pretending to be one, it's unclear) uses her statues to injure a bunch of women in sports. The other instance was in The Cissy, where Cartman pretends he's trans to use the women's bathroom.
Movie • 1983 Report
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jdpamv
Not necessarily sexually but the only trans character is a serial killer and thus predatory in that regard.
Movie • 1993 Report
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jdpamv
Very adjacent. Mrs. Doubtfire is a man pretending he’s a woman (specifically a nanny) to see his kids after losing custody. When they find out Doubtfire has a penis, it’s immediately assumed that this is a sexual predator. The same man pretends to be many other women that he thinks his kids shouldn’t be trusted with, one of them being a trans woman (the kids’ mom immediately assumes, again, that this is a predator).
Book • 2000 Report
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jdpamv
Not a confirmed trans character but Rita Skeeter is described as masculine in offensive ways adjacent to transmisogyny and she preys on Hermione (a child) in her shapeshifted animal form.
Movie • 1960 Report
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jdpamv
The killer has DID and kills people in their woman (and thus debatably trans) identity.
Movie • 2014 Report
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jdpamv
Unconfirmed if Snatcher is trans but they have a drag persona that they use to ”fool” the cishet men of their town into being attracted to them and the persona is also used to prey on the child protagonist.
Video Game • 2011 Report
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SiRenfield
“Predatory” is maybe the wrong word here but their transness is something of a twist and a good part of their character arc involves dysphoria and fear of their partner(s) finding about her true nature. Plus they murder people in multiple timelines so maybe in the non-sexual sense?
Movie • 2011 Report
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jdpamv
A trans woman has sex with a man while he’s drunk.
Video Game • 2018 Report
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QuintusHazard
In Volume 18, Lanque isn't stated to be trans within the game but he is canonically trans according to the creators. He coerces the MSPA Reader into having sex with him (in the good ending the MSPA Reader stops him before things get too far, but he still tries). He claims to be a virgin and that it would be one of the last chances he might have to have sex before being sent off-planet, but it's implied that he isn't a virgin and just says this in order to get people to have sex with him.
TV Show • 2019 Report
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Mulu
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It's not stated if the character is trans but a shapeshifter character with a female appearance seduces and convinces a man to have sex, only to turn into a male presenting appearance midway in order to blackmail him, playing on the "trap" trope.
TV Show • 2018 Report
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jdpamv
Not to slander or discriminate, though, it’s a documentary and she was predatory IRL.
TV Show • 1999 Report
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ChaoticGourd
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Christopher tells a story about a Transwoman who is burned with acid and disfigured bc she tried to "trick" someone into sleeping with her. Basically the "Gay Panic" defense.
TV Show • 2005 Report
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Movie • 1986 Report
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Movie • 2016 Report
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randomlytoriii
A guy does drag for a chance to go to Hawaii. It's mostly comedic. He offers to fuck the two guys after, which felt like a cheap joke.
Book • 2020 Report
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jdpamv
The whole book is transphobic propaganda. An AMAB character disguises as a woman to get into their spaces and murder them. It’s a bigoted nightmare and something only JKR could’ve written.
Movie • 1987 Report
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Sid
No, but a gay person is, and right at the start there’s a newspaper article about a trans woman that’s presented as an example of society going wrong
Anime • 2008 Report
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Stressedtoimpress
Yes. The trans female character, Grell, is not only constantly misgendered but portrayed as repeatedly hitting on/harassing uninterested men and is called a pervert
Video Game • 2017 Report
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A character that could be perceived as trans is depicted as a bit creepy towards Link.
Book • 2004 Report
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Anonymous
He’s a vampire with no genitals who rips people apart.
Movie • 1988 Report
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MagitekVai
Not sexually, but a trans woman is depicted as a mass murderer
Movie • 1999 Report
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rafalawliet
(spoilers) it's never stated if the character is actually trans or not, but either way the movie is horribly transphobic and has a very harmful depiction of trans and gender non-conforming people. The trans character is a pedophile who is portrayed as ""a man pretending to be a woman/maternal figure"" in order to gain the trust of children and (literally) eat them. They are also a twist villain and the main characters yell at them "she's a man!" when their gender identity is revealed.
TV Show • 2020 Report
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prettybeebalm
This is a bit tricky since it’s meant to be humorous, and involves magic body swapping so neither character is actually transgender, they just end up in a body of the opposite gender.
The man is imagining a scenario where the woman currently in his body uses it to go try and aggressively pick up men at a club. It is a bit predatory, the men are repulsed and rebuff any advances.
The man is imagining a scenario where the woman currently in his body uses it to go try and aggressively pick up men at a club. It is a bit predatory, the men are repulsed and rebuff any advances.