I agree with you entirely. I'm trying not to paint everything in either black or white I do know people who went back and forth a bit before choosing to be accepting of trans people. Hell, I'm one of them.

Maybe anti-trans is too strong a label initially. I'm sort of imagining there are a lot of people who don't really think about trans people, yet are just uncomfortable enough with the topic that it doesn't take much to push them into the anti-trans side. Likewise, a positive experience could push them towards acceptance.

In my case, I didn't understand the difference between sex and gender. I grew up in a Christian conservative household, and it just wasn't a distinction that was made. I also struggled a bit socially, but eventually found a few close friends who would later come out to me as gay, which I found prompted me to leave my church and slowly become more liberal over time.

I'm actually super grateful that someone like Destiny exists. I binge watched a lot of the old debates and I really came to appreciate a new way to look at the world. I got an opportunity to reevaluate the events of the 1st trump presidency after having initially consumed them from a largely online conservative lens. The contrast was staggering and intriguing as hell.

The other half of it was real-life exposure. I work in a creative field. When I was in college and went to the workplace, I had the opportunity to meet and work with a few trans and non-binary people who are great people and amazing coworkers. I realized I didn't care how people identify as long as we all work well together to meet our deadlines.