You know, back in the 50's and 60's, people were terrified of gays and lesbians, and thought that it was a "choice". Well, since then, gays have come out of the closet and more and more people find out that they know someone who is gay. It's because of that, that gays have become more accepted, because people know more about them and that they won't "infect someone with the gay".
However..............very few people know any, or even about, transgendered people.
You fear the most, what you understand the least.
They all know now. It's all throughout the media and the schools.
They don't know any transgendered people but they ALL know of them, very keenly right now.
Knowing about someone, and actually knowing them are 2 different things. When I was growing up in Montana, I never knew of anyone in my community that was gay. When I got to my first command in the military, I became friends with a dude named Paul, and about 6 months after we started hanging out, he told me he was gay. I told him we wouldn't have any problems if he didn't hit on me, and that I would never hit on him. Well.............not only did I find out that gay men are natural magnets for pretty women, I also learned that they make GREAT wingmen. Girls go up to him, he talks me up to them, they go out with me.
On my last sea tour, I rented a room from a lesbian couple who was also in the Navy. Probably one of the better places I lived, and yeah, there were a lot of LGBT people that came through that house, but nobody ever gave me a problem, and we were all good friends.
That is where I learned that transgendered males aren't into women, they are into other males.
Interestingly enough, out of all the times that I hung out with them, I only got bothered ONCE, and when my friends saw some guy hassling me, they came in, one claimed to be my boyfriend and told him to buzz off. Other than that, I never had a problem hanging around them.
Nope, if a person can swallow their bias and actually get to know someone who has a different sexual identity than them, they will find that other than their choice for sexual partners, they are pretty much like everyone else.