The post I was initially responding to wasn't "genuinely curious". It was spreading lies about the bathroom bans being "reasonable responses" to sudden major changes, when the bathroom ban is the change.

It was not a benign post, it was a post dirctly attacking trans rights.

Why isnt it warranted? The people responding with hostility are literally under attack by one of the two political parties in the US. WHY is our defensiveness not warranted?

Passing laws and regulations directly attacking a tiny minorities human rights, and instituting policies / instilling overt bigots in positions of power whose only purpose is to hurt that tiny minority tends to elicit that type of reaction.

Banning trans people from the bathroom IS THE SUDDEN CHANGE. We have been using correct gendered bathrooms for decades, and now it's being suddenly changed and forcing us into birth sex based bathrooms.

Stop pretending that the push here is for the status quo - this bathroom bam is a CHANGE to the status quo.

Covid resulted in a MASSIVE backlog of cases.