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CW transmedicalism
Alternatively, the character can be clearly coded as a closeted trans woman, but then you need to have some psychiatrist lecture people "no, this is actually not a transs***al, but somebody who is only consumed completely by dreams of living as a woman full-time because of this contrived fetish that nobody has ever heard of before (because i just made it up)."Yes, this means that Ray Blanchard is literally Hanibal Lecter if Hanibal Lecter was a complete idiot.
The movie, Bone Tomahawk, takes this one step further and has a Native American man talk to a group of white people and tells them "these aren't real Native Americans you're up against." I was expecting eldritch horrors with tentacles and bird heads who spit acid or some shit. Nope! Just some cannibals coming to steal white women!
At least we got to see a settler cleaved in half from crotch to head, so that was nice. Really fucking weird decision to do the "not really trans" trope combined with a racism.