Dave wants to wear a dress to school. Donald doesn’t like it because he thinks only girls should wear dresses. Dave says he’s a girl, too. Dave says she wants to be called Samantha. Other girls are perfectly happy with Samantha wearing a dress and playing with them, until Samantha chooses a doll which Marjorie wanted to play with. Angry that she can’t play with her doll, Marjorie tells Donald Samantha is bad. Donald says; “See? I told you it was bad!” Meanwhile Kevin stole the doll Jocelyn was playing with and started kicking it around the schoolyard, breaking it as he does. Donald says “Dave caused that!” And half the other boys agree with him. Now Samantha gets sent home from school by the teacher for fighting with Donald, while Samantha had done nothing but wear a dress and play with dolls. Neither Dave in boy clothes, nor Samantha in girl clothes show up at school the next day. Donald keeps shouting that kids like Dave are the problem. Marjorie agrees with him. Kevin destroys another doll, but they’re fine with that because he’s not wearing a dress.

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.

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

[ I am not condoning, just informing ]

Hate is learned.

Personally I have an acquaintance that talks about how terrible trans people are all day. As far as I can tell he has no real personal reason to hate, but he subscribes to the republican agenda. The Republicans demonized Trans people so now he does too.

I really think it’s that simple for these empty heads. They hear people on TV and such talk about the “terrible Trans people” who will “invade restrooms and grape your daughter” so that’s their belief now.

It happens on both sides too. Far too many people just whole ass believe and subscribe to these talking points purely because it advances their parties agenda. Of course the parties have to sugarcoat it or straight up lie about these groups to push the belief. The evidence is right in front of us.

For example, this exact post. Talking about Trans hate like its everywhere all the time in our face. It’s just not like that. Sure a lot of people hold these beliefs, fewer wholeheartedly believe all of it, even fewer will try to do something like write politicians about it, and even fewer will go to the streets and propagate their hate. But the old saying is true “if it bleeds it leads”. Stories about hate and death are front page and shoved into our faces because it sells. Were all more aware of these problems because talking heads never shut up about it. The rise on social media and internet has made this problem exponentially worse.

Used to be if there was a shooting on the other side of the country I wouldn’t hear about it. But now there can be a shooting in Australia, a LGBT hate parade in Europe, and civilian deaths in gaza, the news cycle will make sure I know about all of it.

Not saying it’s a bad thing to know about stuff in other parts of the world, but we need to be careful lest we forget that the entire world isn’t like this. It’s overrepresented in media but it doesn’t have to be our lives.

Also closeted Trans or something idk, I live with this same fear and these are the things I try to remind myself whenever it’s just too much. Hope this helps.

I think that att the core its the “ew!” factor combined with “i would love this but I’m too closeted and if I cannot have fun, nobody can” which is then used and abused by savvy politicians who need a scape goat for people to trample to death while they secretly steal the people blind.

I could be mistaken , though

People need something to hate, decided to pick trans since they probably did zero research, decided “BoYs iN GiRls LocKeR RooM BaYuD!” And let the hate roll. Anything to make a bigot feel better about themselves, and misery is good company for a group of shitty people.

What they should focus on is all the hatred and rape and child molestation within the church

Actually I don’t know anybody who hates trans people. Tbf it’s a pretty dull subject.

Rich people want you to focus on people who can’t defend themselves well, so you’re looking away while the rich people are stealing money from you.

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.

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.

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.

Homophobes lost the culture war around gay folks so now they’ve moved on to the next group they can abuse.

Look at Umberto Eco’s properties of fascism.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism

There’s 14 properties. The fight against trans people falls into 8-10 different properties.

Trans people are a strawman for modern fascism. Just like immigrants.

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.