Though trans people being fairly uncommon is certainly an issue on this front as other people have pointed out, it's quite nice to know that people have become more accepting by very nature of just knowing me

This sort of thing is great motivation for me to continue being out of the closet to the general public :)

It's why they stopped going after gay marriage so hard. It's tough to be against gay marriage when most people know someone who is gay and sees that it's not a big deal. The trans community is much much smaller so there's a good chance that someone doesn't know anyone who identifies as such, I'm one of those people. It makes it an easy target for conservatives to vilify and create more hate and division which leads to more campaign contributions.

Is that causal or correlative?