Of course it does not make sense. It does not have to. It is a diversion. Basically, attacking trans persons is the new anti-abortion campaign. The latter's extreme results have pissed off even "conservative" voters when it directly affected them, as well. So now they picked a new target to attack that is only a minimal percentage of the entire population and only minimal support from the population at large. It is not even about trans people, it is about riling up people about some made up bullshit (like trans people eating children or whatever) so people do not start thinking about how the super rich make them super poor. It is all diversion from the class struggle. Keep them fighting some imagined enemy so they do not start building guillotines and chopping off the heads of billionairs. That is all there is to it, really.