A few bad people who hate others because they think putting others down means they win picked a fight on the playground. They got other people on the playground to join them because they yelled the loudest and some kids thought that the louder you yelled, the more right you were. The people they were yelling about just wanted to be on the playground too, but the yelling people didn’t want them on the playground, so despite the fact that they didn’t want to, the people being yelled at played a competitive game against the people who were yelling.

After a long long long time (LOTS of sleeps) the yelling bad people won against the people they were yelling at.

The yelling people didn’t know what to do then. They only knew how to be angry and they couldn’t find anything else or anyone else to yell at and people were starting to leave their team because all the excitement was gone and there wasn’t a competitive game to play anymore.

So the bad yelling people panicked and started randomly picking other, smaller groups of people on the playground to yell about. They made up things about them and told lies.

It didn’t work at first, and they tried telling lies about lots of different groups of people one after another, and eventually they started picking on some people who were JUST different enough that some of their old yelling teammates who got bored and left believed those lies and joined the yelling again. There was SO much yelling and it was so much louder that it was impossible for anyone near the yelling people to hear the truth.

And that’s how we got from “abortion as an issue” to “trans people as an issue”.

There is no valid reason to dislike trans people. There is no valid reason to care if someone is trans. There is no valid reason to treat trans people differently.

You can substitute any color, religion, and culture for the word trans too.

A lot of people don’t personally know any trans people. A lot of right wing media says that trans people are bad and that they want to make a lot of changes to society that might effect you too. So it’s easy to hate people when you don’t actually know them, and your “news” is telling you that they are bad.

Hate is learned.

It’s the ‘ick’ factor, plain and simple. The “culture war” is all about giving idiots a group of people to hate so you can win their votes by oppressing that group. Most of the world is cis, and most cis people never spend a second of their lives thinking about how their experience isn’t universal. So when they see a trans person just living their lives, they’re more apt to be judgmental than curious: “Obviously, if that person’s lived experience is different from mine, there’s something wrong with them.”

Trans people are easy to scapegoat because they’re a minority and their very existence challenges the narrow worldview that most cis people possess. They’re a godsend for evil people looking to oppress people for power.

Because they are such a tiny AND unprotected minority, they are fairly easy targets for othering / discrimination.

[ I am not condoning, just informing ]

I think most of the other comments are overthinking it.

Sure the bigots will come up with ‘reasons’ but I genuinely think it’s mostly guys’ fear of accidentally having feelings for someone who has or even had a penis: They don’t want to be ‘fooled into being gay’ like it’s contagious.
Even one of the slurs they use is “trap” - as though the intent of being trans was to catch innocent cis straight men off guard and corrupt them.
(Of course in reality being anything but upfront would likely just get the trans woman murdered, but so could being upfront. And the bigots think people choose it.)

They make stupid people question themselves. When stupid people start questioning themselves they get frustrated and angry.

Fascism cannot function without scapegoats, and trans people are the smallest minority group. Once they normalize persecuting the smallest group, they move up to the next group which is slightly larger than the previous. It’s the Nazi playbook.

It looks like autistic people are next, based on RFK’s bullshit.

Trans women look like women, men want to fuck women and they usually arent picky. Men wanting to fuck the leggy blonde with huge tits and a penis just made them gay. How dare she make them gay!.

The Patriarchy is weakened when gender is not absolute.

When the Patriarch is threatened hatred is the response

I think it’s really just as simple as they are different and people just don’t like things that are different. Compounding the fact is a lot of people don’t have any first hand experience interacting with a trans person and so believe what theyre told through their favorite media source.

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The problem with trying to explain it is that bigotted hatred isn’t logical. Try to get any actual bigot to explain it and you’ll get many (often contradictory) reasons.

The reality is both more boring and more sinister than what you probably expect if you’re looking for sensible reasons.

People who hate are easier to control. The powers that be choose a minority that can be bullied without consequences, create bullshit reasons for it, and encourage people to be afraid of and hateful to that minority. Those fearful and hateful people raised kids to be fearful and hateful. Those kids grew up to make their own fearful and hateful offspring. Some of these kids grew up to join the ranks of the powers that be, and brought their fear and hate to the decision making process. Combine this with the systematic destruction of public education, and you have current events in the us.

Culture war nonsense is favored by governments that want you to have an “enemy” to point the finger at instead of them, it’s a classic strategy that the Nazi party used during the Holocaust. We’re susceptible to propaganda, all of us are, and a trans people are a minority that’s easy to point at - and get a lot of people with rigid values on sex and gender to listen. You can get that basic “ew that’s unnatural” response with bathroom or anti-trans women in sports rhetoric, regardless of whether there’s merit to the claims.