You cannot separate transphobia from homophobia. The person who hates a trans woman for "looking like a man" often also hates a gay man for being "effeminate." Both are attacks on the same core principle: the right to exist outside of rigid, birth-assigned gender roles.
The transgender community faces a range of challenges, including:
The history of the transgender community and LGBTQ+ culture is not a recent phenomenon but a long-standing "story" of diverse identities existing across nearly every culture for millennia
Consider the case of the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, a beloved lesbian institution that ran for 40 years. Its "womyn-born-womyn" policy explicitly banned trans women. For years, the broader LGBTQ establishment was silent. It took a new generation of queer activists to stage protests and boycotts, finally forcing the festival to close in 2015. That rupture—between cisgender LGB people who saw gender as immutable biology and trans people who saw it as identity—was the civil war no one wanted to admit was happening.