@Malingspann #152497
Because Lois Einhorn was the first person Ray Finkle happened to meet while looking for someone to rob of their identity, after killing them.
He assumed that even if the authorities realized he was living somewhere under a stolen identity, they would never in a trillion years consider
as a possibility that he had stolen a woman’s identity.
Do you actually think this is a more plausible interpretation of this character? I mean, sure, it's fiction so you can make anything up, I guess. If she's actually trans though, her actions make sense. Otherwise you have a cisgender man doing something likely psychologically impossible and certainly very difficult to do in practical terms (living as a woman for an extended period of time, doing quite a lot to physically transition to female, and successfully "passing" well enough to fool everybody) for a ridiculous reason (c'mon, "I'm gonna kill and assume the identity of the first person I meet, regardless of gender" Really?).
@Malingspann #152501
Finkle apparently didn’t think that far. And in time, he learned to sort of live with it.
So the criminal mastermind with the long-term revenge plan "didn't think that far"? Doesn't seem very likely. What's much less likely is a cisgender man "learning to sort of live with it". I can tell you from personal experience that this would be very very difficult. Absolutely impossible? Perhaps not. And maybe you could say someone motivated by a quest for revenge would put themselves through anything. But choosing a female identity was not a necessity for this plan to succeed. It was a choice made by that character, who could have just as easily or more easily chosen a male identity. I don't believe that any cisgender person would consider doing something like this, and I doubt they would even think of it in the first place.
Now, from the point of view of the writers, she certainly was a man pretending to be a woman. But, *not* a cisgender man. I don't know if the term "cisgender" had been coined yet but I guarantee you the movie's writers hadn't heard of it. More importantly though, the writers of the movie would likely have not seen any difference between this character and any other transgender woman (who they probably would have referred to as "transexual"). This was the classic transphobic trope "man pretending to be a woman tricks other man into sex", played 100% straight. And that was kinda my original point. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is super transphobic.