So is Buffalo Bill….

But he’s showing what society generally considers to be “womanly traits”, wouldn’t that make him a woman?

Solid answer estcst, never mind this basement troll.

"Look for severe childhood disturbances associated with violence."

That describes most trans.

"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."

That also describes most trans. Maybe Lecter was fcking with her like he did throughout the movie.

There was a lot of self hatred, too. He wanted to become someone else, which had something to do with his obsession with the moth's, why he put them in the mouths of his victims.

Yes - psycho killer, not a woman and it was a very satisfying kill

Oh

I see

He was indeed a transgender, but the Liberal standard is to disavow any transgenders who do negative things. Despite the fact that deadnaming and misgendering and all that are considered cardinal sins, this only applies to transgenders who display acceptable behavior.

There are plenty of people and fictional characters who fit all definitions of Transgender, but are rejected by the Liberals because their appalling behavior would give transgenders a bad name.

These include SotL's Buffalo Bill, the Nashville Trans Mass Shooter, Canadian Trans activist, Jessica Yaniv, and Internet celebrity and incest-committer, Chris Chan.

Because they are horrible people who do not project the right image, these bonafide Transgenders are denied their Trans identity and described as "just confused" and not really Trans.

Yes, PaladinNJ, hit the nail on the head. It was explained better in the book. As good of an adaptation of the source material Silence of the Lambs, the film, was of Thomas Harris's novel, the novel was about 400 pages. You can't capture every character, subplot, detail. I do wish, however, that the film devoted more time to Buffalo Bill;s psychopathy, which the book did very well. In the book, there were specific tests cited that proved to the gender reassignment doctors at multiple hospitals that Buffalo Bill was not a transexual. That, coupled, with his prior criminal record disqualified him for the surgery. That motivated him to seek alternative means to slip into his feminine skin.

Assuming the character merely self-declared as a woman, that is all that is required to be a woman under current progressive orthodoxy. But then, I am not a credentialed biologist