There is a psychological phenomenon I've witnessed, where people are unable to accept an idea without applying it to themselves. Like they can't accept that trans people have needs and wants without feeling like it will encroach on themselves and change how they feel about their own gender. I don't know what to call it besides selfishness, or projection, or what. It's the same thing when nazis get called out and people who have never confronted their own racism feel attacked from the sidelines.

Could it be an innate awareness in the US that at any point, any group could be "next', so it's like a game of musical chairs to put yourself in the group who is pointing at the next one to be persecuted? We are at an early stage with trans rights, these are the same people who would have been against desegregation or gay marriage.

I mean we barely have those things. We've barely fixed anything when it comes to vulnerable minorities rights besides building a flimsy barrier to keep people from getting stoned to death by religious extremists.