&gt;Clearly, it&#x27;s not about protecting children, women, and the elderly. It&#x27;s about shaming a minority into submission since we&#x27;ve been making gains in terms of the national discussion.<p>It would be fruitless for me to speculate on the particular aversion you mention to transsexuals, but in general you&#x27;ll gain a better understanding by looking for a motivation other than malice; that&#x27;s seldom the explanation. The real rationale may be short-sighted, ignorant, wildly unfair, and unlikely to be advanced by the outlandish actions taken, but nonetheless there is some underlying thought process, and most people care far too much about themselves to go out significantly out of their ways to deliberately do harm to others.