Why do groups opposed to homosexuality and recreational transgenderism often bait and switch and attack the unrelated group of born transsexual persons instead?

Answer 1

Many people have minimal knowledge about the birth anomaly of transsexualism, and they confuse it with various sexual preferences. There is no way to know what goes on in the mind of people and why they attack others. However, here are probably some common reasons:

1. LGBT opponents often don't realize that transsexualism is not a sexual preference and is not the same thing as recreational/non-op transgenderism. They don't realize it is more akin to a medical condition and not a choice nor orientation.

2. The opponents don't realize that not all TS persons support the LGBT community. There are TS groups which try to promote TS folks apart from the LGBT and show everyone they are a part of the Mainstream (general public) community.

3. The opponents don't realize that many to most TS persons consider themselves Mainstream, not a part of the LGBT. If having cancer doesn't mean you are a part of the LGBT, they why should being born with the wrong genitals? Most TS persons never asked to be a part of the TG nor LGBT communities.

4, LGBT opponents tend not to notice nor appreciate the risks that TS persons who are also a part of the opposition take.

5. LGBT opponents tend to confuse the choice to crossdress with the need for corrective surgery. They see the surgery as the furtherance of a "delusion," not as something therapeutic and habilitative.

6. Most TS persons who oppose LGBT behaviors and recreational crossdressing never speak up. So people on both sides of the debate mistake their silence for assent or even consent.

7. The media does a good jump in lumping those with transsexualism in with people that the public really does hate. Most people who think they dislike persons born with transsexualism really don't. They just don't know this is a birth condition and that transsexualism is not a recreational behavior, not a way to vary someone's gender, and not a form of homosexuality.

8. Haters in general tend to believe stereotypes, look at everyone in lumps, and paint everyone with a wide brush.