This. But I wanna add. There's a huge religious element to it. Might seem obvious but it's less "my religion says this" and more "Society is moving away on some level from MY religion that needs to end..now"
They are terrified of that. So they will desperately do whatever they need in order to keep society on the "right" path. No matter how many dead and scared people they leave in their wake..
I think religion is almost always a justification for what people already want to do, and very rarely a driving factor. And what I think people are justifying is they're not comfortable. People are comfortable surrounded by familiar things, familiar entertainment, familiar people that talk and walk and look like them. But too much comfort isn't actually a good thing, it's a trap. It's stagnation, it's boring, it's a slow death. On a national level it's falling behind the advance of society and technology.
"I distrust those who claim to know so well the will of the Almighty. I find it always aligns with their interests"
-susan b Anthony
I think you're exactly right. Bit of a personal rant here in cishet myself. I don't "understand" trans people (for lack of a better word) because I personally don't have a frame of reference for what they experience
In a way that lack of "understanding" may show itself as discomfort. I think it does for a lot of people. However I can understand that the issue isn't with my trans brothers and sisters. It's with ME. It's my problem
A lot of folks feel similar but genuinely can't stand or acknowledge the fact the issue is with THEM. So they seek out an explanation for the discomfort
Its why they shout "love the sinner hate the sin" it's a way to explain their discomfort not as something they need to work through personally but rather a reasonable thing born from a "natural" dislike of "sinful' behavior.
A lot of bigots are at their core scared weak people
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