LogFAQs > #947619153

There's not just one reason why trans people get so much shit, tbh, and some of the reasons behind it are actually pretty complicated in ways most people aren't really aware of. The most obvious reasons are fairly straightforward; it's usually some combination of homophobia, misogyny, insecurity about one's own sexuality/identity, and/or ignorance/misinformation often instilled in someone from a trusted religious/political figure.

A slightly more complex contributing factor is that a lot of people have these ideas of how a person *must* be to be "successful," and if they aren't living in accordance with said standard, they are regarded as a "failure" and held in disdain by default. To people who fixate on such a thing, seeing someone not only not even attempt to live in accordance with that standard but be perfectly content not to is an outright affront, and to the more extreme, they view people actively not living up to said standard to be a threat (not to civilization as they'll often claim, but to their own rigid world view); if someone isn't living up to that standard and they *aren't* miserable and failing, it challenges them. Incidentally, this is often the underlying motive behind people openly encouraging the harassment of trans people.

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