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Explain Like I'm Five

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Explain to me like I am a literal 5 year old. What is the hate towards Trans people? Is it just because they a different? Did they do something to garner the hate? I was raised different and change... (lemmy.world)
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Are good. And accepting the weird or different was the way to go.

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[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

I think most of the other comments are overthinking it.

Sure the bigots will come up with 'reasons' but I genuinely think it's mostly guys' fear of accidentally having feelings for someone who has or even had a penis: They don't want to be 'fooled into being gay' like it's contagious.
Even one of the slurs they use is "trap" - as though the intent of being trans was to catch innocent cis straight men off guard and corrupt them.
(Of course in reality being anything but upfront would likely just get the trans woman murdered, but so could being upfront. And the bigots think people choose it.)