I really wasn't going to weigh in on this, but I agree. People are misconstruing ambivalence and disagreement with "hate" and "fear". Which is a general problem in our discourse these days. We always turn it up to 11 no matter what. For example, I think Joe Biden is a corrupt fool who has never had an original idea in his entire political career, but I don't think he's "evil" or a "threat to democracy". He's just a bad President who deserves the boot.
Same for the 20% of the alphabet people. For all intents and purposes, they're just LARPer's. I don't "hate" or "fear" them, my only real problem is that I wish they'd stop trying to make me play their game. The dorks in the park playing Wizards and Elf's keep their fantasies confined to their group of friend's and don't bother me while I'm shooting hoops. The LGBT whatever, whatever "community" seems to think that everyone else in the world needs to be in on their game. But we don't. And we shouldn't need to be. Writ large Western society doesn't care what you do; just don't bother the rest of us with it.
It's when you start trying to preach that something as basic as the bedrock of biology "isn't real" that people will push back. But its not the people who are pushing back that are the radicals, its the ones trying to suddenly redefine what it means to be human. Had the alphabet people just stuck with saying, "Hey, consenting adults are going to pretend to change their gender by cutting on themselves and wearing women's or men's clothing. Cool?" We all would have said, "Cool. This Bud's for you!" Instead, its become, "HEY! You there minding your own business! LISTEN TO ME!!!! Men can be women, and women can be men!!!! Gender is a CONSTRUCT!!!! If you believe genetics and tens of thousands of years of history instead of me you're a BIGOT!!!!" As such, for anyone with a functioning prefrontal cortex, it should come as no surprise that approach makes a lot of people unhappy. What's the answer?
Nuke it from space.
Or not. All I know is that we've reached a low point in our discourse where everything is politicized (Marx predicted this, BTDubs). We're losing cohesion as a society as we break further and further into "identity groups", "tribes", "sects", whatever; that look at each other as an enemies rather than just someone with another point of view. Until we can find some common cause, be a it a depression, world war, Vulcans landing in Bozeman; I fear we're just going to continue to scream "hate and fear" past each other rather than talking to each other.
Anyway, I'm going to go drink another Deseret IPA and watch The Bear.