@Josette77 I want to attempt to answer a question you asked:
”I guess I'm wondering how people see this improving? Do trans people have to no longer exist in order for people to feel safe"?”
For me, there are two significant parts of modern transactivism that I object to and I will first comment on each and how I think the situation could be improved. Then I will address your second question separately.
Firstly, I object to the lobby that has influenced the medical profession to move from safe medical practices for children (watchful waiting) to unsafe treatment protocols (affirmation, puberty blockers, mastectomies, cross sex hormones).
There needs to be a return to evidence based medicine and bodies like WPATH which is largely a lobby group, need to acknowledge that fact and the fact that they are unable to present an unbiased view. You wouldn’t expect those with uncured anorexia to develop and lead medical groups creating treatment plans for anorexia patents and those whose gender dysphoria is unresolved to the point where they felt the need to undergo medical transition should not be creating and pushing treatment plans for those with gender dysphoria.
Secondly, I reject the current transactivist demand that men who claim they are women are actually women and should automatically have unfettered access to all women’s spaces and be treated as women in all circumstances.
That situation could easily be improved by an acceptance that, while those men would prefer not to be men and would rather not use men’s spaces, that doesn’t mean they are women and should have access to women’s spaces. If they are uncomfortable in men’s spaces, then they need to campaign for their own, separate spaces, as women and disabled people have done before them.
As for ”Do trans people have to no longer exist in order for people to feel safe"?”
That word exist always strikes me as odd. People can, within reasonable limits, change their bodies as they wish. They can also claim an identity that is in conflict with reality without making any physical changes.
I can’t stop people’s from doing either of those things, and their existence doesn’t affect me or make me feel unsafe as long as they don’t demand “rights” that impinge on mine.
While men who claim they are women are demanding access to women’s spaces and the powers that be are enabling them to enter those spaces (and in particular try to ostracize women who object) then THAT is what makes me feel unsafe. So those who transition (and those whose internal feelings cause them to claim they are trans) don’t need to stop existing.
They do need to stop insisting that they should be treated as if they were the opposite sex and come back to a more realistic position where it’s accepted that they wish they were a different sex, but that there are some times when they understand that sex matters and in those circumstances and spaces, it needs to be acknowledged that they should either be accommodated with their own sex or in separate spaces.