
In my experience most of them don’t believe it, they just don’t think it’s worth correcting because we’re are “wrong” anyway and shouldn’t be defended. The ones that do genuinely believe this crap are so deeply indoctrinated in the cult that trans people get seen as ONTOLOGICALLY violent, and any specific case true or not is just a reflection of that foundational truth. It’s honestly similar to psychosis in a lot of ways.
The logic is that they look at the human being and feel revulsion and discussed and directly attribute a moral evaluation to that. As if their emotions, give them an insight into the moral character of the person they’re speaking to. This is also all conservatives including the entire center right Democratic Party.
older conservatives seem to still believe hormonal/reproductive medicine is stuck in the 70s, transwomen are basically a tall man in a corset that like to wander into bathrooms and assault people. they're so cis het that they truly believe the trans person is male and can't stop themselves from committing gender violence because that's just "what guys do". also conservatives are not sexually attracted to them and find trans people creepy so its easy to demonize them.
Relentless media messaging that largely consists of stories/testimonies from young, attractive, white women about how they’ve been harmed/harassed by a very caricature type of trans woman. Of course 99+% of the stories are false, but when you believe even one in a hundred of those stories, they add up with how aggressively they’re pushed.
My dad is constantly sending me Instagram reels/tiktok story times of fake news clips of tearful 20 year old women saying how they were cornered and threatened in restrooms, then further threatened when they reported things. He genuinely thinks it’s an epidemic because he spends every day consuming these stories.
It all feeds back into the whole capitalism/billionaire conspiracy of “hey mediocre white guy on Facebook, it’s me, Elon musk. The only reason you’re not worth a billion dollars like me is because of all the (insert minority group here) and welfare queens stealing your taxes. I’m just like you! All your misery is their fault, and I’m letting you in on that secret”. It’s easier to believe that and hate everyone else than it is to accept the truth.