That's not why you are obsessed with trans people. You are terrified that the next woman you ogle covetously or catcall won't have the parts you expect.
You don't care about protecting women. The only thing you care about is protecting your fragile sense of masculinity.
Because I have thought about why people choose to hyper-focus on trans-folk, and it's one of the few explanations that makes sense, at least for men.
Why would someone say that they're "protecting" women, but advocate against abortion rights, divorce, sufferage, or higher limits on the age of consent to marry?
Why would someone say their religious views are incompatible, but have switched sects twice in the past decade because they disagreed with the direction their previous church was going in?
Why would someone claim to be protecting children from indoctrination yet vote for indoctrination of their own political views?
The contradictory explanations never made sense to me. The self-interested ones do.
Indeed, I did not itemize out every possible rationalization I have seen. The exact shape of the rationalization isn't terribly interesting or germane.
It's the underlying insecurities that those forms of motivated reasoning are covering up for that is far more illustrative.
You don't care about protecting women. The only thing you care about is protecting your fragile sense of masculinity.