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You've touched on why the Trans movement is fighting a mountainous battle. They may have the outward "support" of a lot of people, but true understanding requires people to change their internal worldview about how gender works and where their place in it is. Many older or middle-aged folks these days are not ready or willing to do that. They know where they sit in their binary and don't want to face they may not be one or the other.
this, but the left in general. we'll always be punching above our weight because the right and the center have the comforting, incorrect belief that everything is fundamentally okay.
I've heard this idea before and it boils down to this: how do you motivate people to rally behind an idea whose central tenet is that things are broken and need fixing? It's so easy to motivate people by saying things used to be great and we need to go back to when it was great (conservatives). But to admit things are wrong and we need to actually work to improve? People don't like hearing that they need to change. So it's a constant battle to keep people motivated enough to put in the work, but not disenfranchised and defeated about how much work it takes.
Talk to a Biden supporter who believes that Biden has always been pro-lgbt and anti-establishment and you'll see what the left has to punch harder than that