Hating someone because of what type of person they are, and inventing devious characteristics about them, is prejudice.
This is a mischaracterisation. One of the issues I have most problem with in this whole debate, isn't anything to do with trans people. Its how their cause has been piggy backed and weaponised by alt right against women. Its created a toxic political environment where everything is about them and us and everyone shouts but no one listened.
So I'm going to say here, just how much listening are you doing Djnoun?
Social media adds to the problem by making it a competition where you have to 'win' or prove you are right. There is no room to step back and actually say, 'ok I fundamentally disagree with you on points x, y and z but on a and b you are spot on.
The culture surrounding this subject has become you have to belief and support every single idea coming from trans activists and if you don't you are a traitor or a bigot.
That's deeply unhealthy on a wider political level. Plus its also potentially harming to trans people themselves.
It always find it striking how voices within the trans community itself are ignored or dismissed as not the right kind of trans or how the experiences of those who thought they were trans but have changed their minds are ignored. Why? Keep asking why?
So I'm going to say here, just how open minded to these arguments are you Djnoun?
It's so easy to go back to the biology answer. Ok, cool. Although, we don't necessarily know everything there is to know about the human body, and especially we know hardly anything about how the brain works. But that doesn't excuse the nonsense projections about how we're all going to be violently assaulted.
No we don't know how biology works. So why aren't we exploring it more instead of simply ignoring what biology we do know in favour of what we don't know?
You have conflated two very different concerns here by linking it directly with violence. Some argument about biology do come back to violence. But not all. Some are about the biology of men and women in a totally unconnected why - for example in research, and for example is there a difference between the experience of men and women who transition and their reasons for doing so. If you remove the concept of sex and replace with gender which is happening, you are also removing a huge about of information and data and degrade sciences ability to find medical patterns and solutions.
You have no evidence that these people are violent and want to rape us. You may believe it strongly based on your prejudices. But that doesn't make it a fact.
Sometimes the absence of evidence, doesn't mean something isn't happening. We need to be conscious of this in politics. Why didn't all those women report Weinstein? Why didn't all those people report the sexual abuse they suffered as children? Power imbalances mean that the most disadvantaged in a society are simply voiceless.
In some cases it is true that prejudice and unconscious bias does play a role in seeing demons where there are none. Equally too though, blindness to a problem because your experience of life is narrow or privileged is also an issue and barrier to seeing problems.
This is no where near as black and white as you make out. We should ALL be challenged in what we think and question ourselves if we feel the need to turn off the computer if someone does say something which gets under your skin because someone says something that makes us want to switch off the computer. Is it because they have said something offensive or is it because they held a mirror to ourselves which revealed a glimpse of the uncomfortable truth within ourselves that we don't want to acknowledge?
Engage with the debate and what people are saying rather than dismissing them from the outset as 'transphobes' and bigots.
We ALL might learn something if you do. It at least moves things forward rather than being stuck in this rut of silencing.