To me this whole “transgender” nonsense is just another fault line by which to divide people; it could have arisen at any time over the past eight years under our first “gay president”, but it was saved for now because Americans of all colors are uniting behind the Trump/Sanders movements (against the establishment). Now the establishment has to splinter the opposition along another front...
It does distract people from more Syrian Muslims brought in and the new wave of “unaccompanied minors” from south of the border, but the effort can serve multiple purposes at once.