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I think a lot of the people currently freaking out about it have been, either individually or collectively, throwing red flags their entire life that say, "I am dangerous to anyone who does not conform to cis-hetero-normative culture," and trans people have wisely avoided them where possible and stayed in the closet where not.
One of my close friends' parents don't know they're trans because they know for a fact how badly they would react. They're conservatives and they're transphobic. It's stopping my friend from transitioning.
Now trans people are in the news and those same transphobic people are wondering where they've all come from and they're reacting in exactly the hostile way that the trans people who avoided them had predicted.