The Amazing Digital Circus proves that you can be really straightforward in your storytelling and character dynamics and people still won't get it because they refuse to engage with what the show actually presents and just pretend that whatever they made up in their head is true
I looked this up and it’s being done for courts to recognise assisted reproduction, surrogacy, and same-sex couples during disputes
So the backlash is another example of how transphobia gets used to justify pushing more restrictive & conservative values across the board