Mmmmmno.
Frankenstein is transphobic, claims non-binary director
Frankenstein is not tranphobic for the same reason Hamlet is not transphobic. There was no trans to be phobic about when the works in question were created.
Frankenstein is transphobic because it is about “a constructed body”, a non-binary filmmaker has claimed.
Jane Schoenbrun, an American director who describes herself as trans and queer, said the Frankenstein adaptations, based on Mary Shelley’s 1818 gothic novel, are an example of older horror films featuring a “trans monster”.
“This image of the trans monster kept coming up, whether that be Norman Bates or Buffalo Bill or Frankenstein as a constructed body, and there was this lineage of trans people having really complicated feelings about those movies,” Schoenbrun told The Hollywood Reporter.
That’s a less stupid claim – typical news media trick to make the story sound more provocative than it is.
“In one sense, those are the places where they saw representations that felt familiar or comforting in some way to their own experiences – but also, those movies are super f—ing transphobic and problematic,” the filmmaker added.
Maybe that’s because trying to escape your own body is not a healthy impulse, so stories about it make it sound like an unfortunate choice.