I'm not saying Hereditary was intentionally made as an allegory for the trans experience (it definitely wasnt) but the parts I find the scariest are the ones where you can feel the powerlessness, fear, and pain of being blamed by a parent for the nonexistence of their other child and the terror at seeing this drive said parent crazy, thinking up conspiracy theories about demons and acting against your best interest to resurrect your dead sibling.
Like even from a narrative perspective, Peter was basically not a character for the first half of the film, mostly existing in the background at home and being kind of a stereotype of a teen boy at school, while we actually see interactions between charlie, steve, and annie. the two siblings (i would argue the two identities, one of the awkward daughter seen at home and the happier and more socially adjusted boy at school) then are forced to interact together at a social gathering until, orchestrated by some demonic cult, the teen boy kills the little girl, which at least reads to me like a conservative transphobic parent's idea of their child coming out. Like both of them are literally possessed by a demon who is at least coded in mythology as a transgender man (demon with a feminine face but who is a man and feels discomfort when inhabiting the bodies of women). then, rather than support the surviving child, this mother rejects her son who suddenly is involved in the narrative and becomes a full 3D person in the story in favor of blaming him for the death of her daughter and then goes to extreme lengths to resurrect her daughter, despite it being painful and dangerous for her still alive son. at least to me this reads as the common idea that transphobes have of their children who are transgender having "killed" their child. anyways I thought it was cool. Ari Aster you sick little freak
