i live in boston area. you are totally correct, at least where i live… there is this movement and rich white liberal douchebags who want to turn every trans person into a martyr. every community group puts out calls to recruit trans folks because they want to prop them up and brag about how ‘inclusive’ they are, and what greater prize is there than a trans person, the most marginalized! It’s weird and fetishistic. Most of the people pushing this mindset are straight white college-educated people. A lot of trans people have their own groups, doing their own sports leagues, etc, and glad for it. They don’t wnat to be associated with the crazy fetishistic douches who want to fawn over them and ask them what their pronouns are every 5 minutes.

It’s just the new version of ‘i have a gay/black friend’ nonsense that went around a couple of decades ago.

I’ve known enough trans people in my life to know they are just people. I worked in theater and have been activity involved in community groups. Some of them are great, some of them are horrible human beings. Some of them are lovey dovey hippies, others are hate filled violent monsters and sexual predators. But in ignorant rich white liberal person land, trans people aren’t people, they are props to virtue signal to each other and lecture each other about ‘ignorance’.