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Tbh I don't really care much about trans people, in the same way I don't give a fuck about the person living 3 streets away that I don't know. I don't understand why people give a shit what someone else wants to be called, or wether they want a dick, vagina, tits or a funky mix. It doesn't negatively affect anyone's life in any way, so I see no reason to negatively affect theirs.
Religious nutjobs and authoritarian cunts are the people negatively affecting other people's lives. And so their lives needs to be equally negatively affected for true balance in the world.
I guess like a kind of karma, only I don't believe any force of nature will take care of it, so people must do it instead.
I'm 46. I've lived in a lot of places, and I have met a lot of people-- people of all shapes, sizes, flavors, etc.
Of all of the people who hold some sort of bigotry (especially the actual bigoted assholes) I ever met, not a single one of them arrived at that opinion by themselves. Most everyone holds some sort of biases and bigotries, even those who actively try not to. It's human failing... we all have them. But there's a difference between a minor, subconscious bias and "I don't want X people in my church." One of those can, very easily, be addressed with education, social exposure, etc. Generationally, one of those things was going away because it was being addressed. The second issue, the outright bigotry, on the other hand, I believe is a much more complicated issue requiring a more complicated solution. It appears, outright, to be much more simple, but that's just what it look like. u under the surface, I suspect that there is much more that contributes to this attitude... and that understanding that is critical to combating it.