For every complex question, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong, to paraphrase HL Mencken.

This is probably one of those times.

There are lots of small, vulnerable minorities that are unable to adequately defend themselves. Muslims in the U.S., for instance. Wiccans. People who play role-playing games. Japanese. Jews. Twelve year olds. Communists. Parakeet owners. Sex offenders.

It is not simply enough to say, "Well, it's easy!"

It's not easy to paint twelve year olds as the ultimate evil, despite their lack of power (if they had more, they wouldn't almost all be stuck in school).

It becomes increasingly easy as the group either directly or plausibly is a symbol of or actually the cause of a massive upheaval in the dominant culture. A lot of people find upheaval unpleasant unless the existing culture is already excruciatingly intolerable (even if it's bad, people who are at least barely afloat do not always want to rock the boat). It also becomes increasingly easy as the group is associated with an actual threat (c.f. Muslims after 9/11, Communists during the time of Stalin especially).

I don't think the Christian move of noting how meek and persecuted one is actually works out all that well, historically, unless you have an afterlife to look forward to.

Trans people *are* a huge political target right now. It's a very uncomfortable position to be in. But if the idea is to figure out how to improve things, you have got to get into the difficult parts of the analysis--out of all the myriad possible targets, why specifically trans people, why now? Is this, like with role-playing gamers, a terror-fad that will pass? Or will it linger until something changes to improve things?

If your goal is only to make people feel less bad about what's happening, while giving no leverage to change things, well, fair enough. But I worry about the prospects for trans people I know because I hear almost no voices that don't sound an awful lot like "more of the same", and it was the same that led to the current situation. So unless the current situation is actually pretty great, I should be worried for them.