This is what we are experiencing as well. These young folks aren't just hateful towards trans folks, they run the gamut. My daughter long since declared our home a safe space for queer folks so we hear a lot of experiences. My daughter's high school, always tops in the area, dropped ratings over recent years because they cannot keep kids from marginalized groups from being bullied out of the district. So much so that a school that prided itself on exclusivity, for the first time, opened its enrollment to kids outside the district.
Not to pick on Linux because I know his heart is in the right place, but he needs to follow the money so to speak. The Republicans are attacking education because they know that education creates empathy. They want to radicalize these young folks against marginalized groups because they know it helps them going forward. It has shit to do with what Trans folks are doing, because right wingers are doing it to everyone. This is a coordinated effort of leaders in the right wing to keep themselves in power. They saw the writing on the wall. Brown people are increasing in numbers, and young people, through education, were becoming more tolerant. Black people haven't increased their percentage since the 60's. Let's back burner them for the time being and go after Hispanics and Gays, who are growing(for LGBTQ I mean out in the open membership numbers). So they create a belief that Trans folks are pedos, Hispanics are rapists, murderers, gangbangers, and Black folks are unqualified for leadership because DEI. My daughter's school is a microcosm of what's going on in the country.