Now is it just me or is hatred for trannies directly proportional to the prevalence of trans activism? It feels like back in the day the general reaction to deciding that you were a woman now was a resounding "ok whatever".
'Trans visibility' was always doomed to self-defeat. I've mentioned North Carolina's 2016 bathroom bill elsewhere on this site - you might remember it, NC mandating that people use the bathroom of their sex, rather than gender identity. The public response was negative to the point where they rolled it back a year later.
Now, people are shrugging as Congress introduces far pettier and more mean-spirited bathroom bills. And it's not hard to see why, particularly if you've read any studies about the incidences of mental illness, autism and Cluster B personality traits with regards to trans people. You just cannot take a group of people that's several more likely to be autistic (with the social cluelessness that involves), several times more likely to seek both attention and drama, and several times more likely to be legitimately crazy, and expect the general public to embrace them.
Trans activists will tell you that the reason public opinion seems to have turned on trans people is that the right has spent years pushing anti-trans propaganda, but I'm guessing that a lot more people who have changed their opinions for the negative did so because of their observations of trans people. For years, they'd smugly point out how anti-trans legislation got zero traction. People didn't sign on, because they only heard about trans people from Fox News or whatever, and everything they heard basically sounded like bullying a small group of harmless people. But that perception hinged on trans people basically being invisible - years of trans activism that brought about trans visibility lead a lot of people saying 'Oh...uh, no thanks'.
And it's because they overplayed their hand. If they'd rested on their laurels after the NC bathroom bill was defeated, they'd probably still be in the same position they were eight years ago. They'd be this tiny under-the-radar minority, and the people who had bad experiences with their coworker or family member who trooned out would just be people who had a bad experience with an individual.
But thanks to trans visibility, that's fading. The general public might not be able to put it into words like a KF autist, but they're catching onto the fact that trans people are, as a group, much less reasonable and mentally stable than average. And they insist that they should be able to talk to your kids.
