1. The vast majority of trans people are good and decent people

 

The vast majority of trans people are good and decent individuals, who suffer prejudice and demonization by hostile groups who promote false narratives that incite public anger and abuse.

 

2. The false narratives that stigmatise trans people

 

The playbook is to take rare and isolated misdeeds of a tiny minority - just as all groups of people have miscreants - and generalise those actions into a false narrative that frames all decent trans people as threats and perverts, which they aren't, weaponising the isolated incidents to turn the public against decent trans lives. This has generated growing prejudice, danger and hostility on the streets. It is a conscious strategy.

 

3. Groups that campaign at the expense of trans people

 

Among the groups that campaign at the expense of trans people's fair interests are: some socially conservative Christians; some feminists with gender-critical beliefs; politicians putting votes before justice; those who use social media to slur trans people; and mostly right-wing news media who orchestrate hostility toward trans people by conflating isolated wrongdoers with trans people who do no wrong and contribute to society.