And they're upping the ante with each attack. When the gay community decided to come out of the shadows, they largely (with a few exceptions) just wanted to be allowed to live their lives free from fear of persecution. There was some effort expended on moving beyond forcing society to accept open homosexuality to celebrating it, but nothing like what we're seeing now from the trans community. A lot of the gay community looked at the extremists among them and said, "No, not a good idea, bring it down a few notches, flamer".
Now, the trans community is demanding that society be forced to speak affirmatively of them, that science textbooks be re-written to change the definition of man and woman, that an entire field of medicine be changed so their views are no longer considered a disorder that needs treatment, that people be censored and destroyed for merely talking the wrong way about them, that they have unfettered access to children without parental' consent, that girls have to accept the presence of men when they are at their most vulnerable, and so on.
You know, when homosexuals wanted to get married, some of us warned that it was just the camel's nose under the tent flap, that we would see a lot more things being forced on us. They laughed, but here we are...