It’s a mixture of fear, ignorance, and virtue signaling. I vaguely supported trans rights because I didn’t really pay enough attention to know what they were demanding, or to understand the sick, fetishistic nature of MTF transgenderism. I knew about transvestites, I just hadn’t realized that they were now calling themselves transgender. The mainstream media does a great job of obfuscating these things. When you add that to the liberal need to be the most tolerant one in the room, you get handmaidens.