They would say that this helps the average citizen by preventing it from being okay to be trans in American society which has benefits like:

• Preventing your kids from becoming trans

• Ending boys pretending to be girls so they can rape and spy on your daughters in gender-segregated spaces.

• Stopping “woke” doctors who embrace “trans ideology” from profiting off of coercing your children into expensive and unnecessary medical treatments.

• Removing “woke” teachers from tricking your kids into becoming trans, or giving them the option to be trans.

• Having to deal with trans coworkers and accommodating their workplace rights.

…and so on. These are almost exactly the same prejudiced justifications used in the past against gay rights in America.

In this new round of American-style fascism, our government has been coerced into being taken over by an extreme right-wing contingent of American political life: Christian nationalists, white nationalists, neo-liberal economic extremists (which used to be called plain old conservative economics), conspiracy theorists, and narcissists. These people have an extreme and unbalanced worldview that flows from their political, economic, social, and emotional wants and needs instead of the fundamental human rights of citizens in a democracy.

Beyond the sociopolitical convenience of having a group to scapegoat and channel political action against, there is a genuine conservative hate for those that do not conform to general conceptions of gender and sexuality. To conservatives, you’re either in or out - with us, or against us, and the people that make them feel weird about sex and gender are easy to exclude. That trans people are human and have rights and live under a democratic government with equal protection under the law becomes harder to integrate into conservative thinking than simply hating them and the accompanying societal norms.