My gut feeling is that most of the anti trans crusading is actively harmful for the growth of these people. Not because people in general care about trans people put because they don’t. It’s possible to drum up some moral panic about children being mutilated, but that also requires a quite large departure from consensus reality that’s expensive to maintain given that gender-affirming surgery on trans children pretty much isn’t a thing. On top of that, it’s difficult to go around yelling about other people’s genitals without being seen as weird and off-putting.