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Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.

Same with gender-affirming care for kids. Good-faith concern would be, "gee we should be making sure kids are appropriately assessed before receiving care and don't end up regretting it," realizing the numbers are tiny, kids are assessed and regret rates are miniscule and then dropping it.

Bathrooms: "Gee we should be making sure predators aren't pretending to be trans to get into women's bathrooms and attacking them," realizing this is essentially an urban legend and then dropping it.

I don't know how you're supposed to talk people out of the idea that policy shouldn't be punitive and cruel to vulnerable members of our society just to prevent a problem that only exists for the brief moment between first imagining it and then briefly thinking through the implications.

It's not an imagined problem, it's a made-up problem. The punishment and cruelty is the point, because transphobes want to force trans people out of doing normal things like sports and using public bathrooms.

I thought that's what I was saying? Are 'imagined' and 'made up' not the same thing?

Saw this without context, thought you were talking about voter ID laws... This basically covers every right-wing panic

Conservatives are obsessed with type II errors (i.e. someone guilty gets away with it) to the extent that they will curtail the rights of all of society if it'll stop one person. (This is an overly charitable reading.)