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It's been days and I'm still pissed off about that Criminal Minds with the Norman Bates of Mexico plot. Given the incredibly low incidence of violence by trans women and the incredibly high incidence of harassment and violence against them, can we please retire the whole serial killer in a dress concept? I'm also looking at you horrifically bad X-files movie. I keep thinking about how much better the Listener and Bones have handled trans issues in the recent past. (The Listener did a beautifully sensitive look at the problems faced by trans men teenagers, in which all the social services types did the right thing, in contrast with a realistically a*****e parent. In Bones, the woman's death had nothing to do with her trans status and every time booth was assholish about her, one of the science types would correct him according to character. All the corrections except Angela's were mild, but it created a sense of booth being the socially out of touch one. Seriously, when is the last time you saw a fictional trans victim of violence who was treated respectfully as her gender by all but two characters on the whole show? I can't think of one. The episode seemed very awkward as a whole and really old fashioned and out of touch with modern psychology, which is really jarring in a show about using psychology to catch criminals. I'm not even going to touch the race issue here because it's been done better and more knowledgeably elsewhere, but the whole thing managed to combine race fail and gender fail into one big cluster ********.