Here is a 6 minute explanation on why Republicans are so obsessed with trans people, on why they spent 215 million dollars on ads demonizing trans people and why it's spending so much energy trying to pass legislation to make the existence of trans people illegal.
Spoiler alert: it isn't to protect kids, it isn't to keep women's sports fair, it isn't to keep women's spaces safe.
It's to uphold the tool of oppression... the patriarchy.