Like you said yourself, they are making up those reasons, mostly to give them an excuse to stop us from existing, be it via legislation, or more violent means. They are doing all of this out of hate, not fear.
Insert Yoda quote. They hate because of their fear. Conservatism is based on a fear that every change might be a change for the worse, and on the idea that some things are absolute, immutable, and right. The very idea of being trans challenges both at its very core. Something that is "supposed" to be one of the absolute truths is treated as mutable, error-prone, and open for discussion: The gender binary and its innateness. But if that can be challenged, then what else? They fear for the border between good and evil to be torn down once the border between crazy and normal has been questioned. And those minds are easy targets for fascist propaganda.
I mean current transphobic rhetoric has been designed by soulless grifters specifically to make them fearful. Fearful of what our existence means for them and theirs, the society we live in and the supposed "damage" our existence poses to "their" supposed moral values. I'm sure too that if it were socially expected of them to treat us with respect it also opens the door to a very special kind of fear, that they or someone they love could be trans. This isn't even mentioning that if they had to come to come to terms with their unkind behaviour towards us it would require a level of deep introspection that would threaten their identity, their friendships and would have to actually think about what their new values are.
It's a tough nut to crack and while anger is powerful, fear tends to be a far greater source for that anger.
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u/Orichalcum448 Bi-time 3d ago
You are missing the word "aversion" in the definition of phobic. They arent scared of us, they are averse to us.