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Being trans isn't a "movement". Being openly anti-trans is part of a reactionary political movement, though, one that can't die out fast enough.
Being trans isn't a movement in of itself, but there is a trans movement. You can deny it all you want, but it's there. Unfortunately, at least in the US, the general public is increasingly becoming more trans across all age groups and political affiliations (according to Gallup). This is reflected by the fact that there more anti-trans legislation than there was a few years ago. The reality is that the trans movement is heading in the wrong direction. Either the people with influence in the movement are focusing on the wrong things, members of the movements can't organize or don't care enough to, or the movement is being poisoned from the inside either by extremists or bad faith actors. Regardless, if people keep ignoring it, the anti-trans positions will steadily gain more ground and civil rights will regress.