I have friends that think just because someone is transgender, they are a sexual deviant. I seriously don't understand people.

It's those people who don't understand, and rationalizing it is not really possible

You (the royal you) are not necessarily wrong or confused just because you're in the minority. But it definitely sucks.

Edit: before you -1 this out of homophobia, ask yourself what drives you to do so.

Yeah this is clearly another way that they're trying to make the LGBTQ+ community invisible and in this case make it illegal to discuss anything about them. It's a mask-off attack on about %5 of the population. As a non-American looking in closely, I lament the terrible environment my American LGBTQ+ peers find themselves in at home.