The trans issues play well into the American right left culture war divide as most issues are, stripped of any nuance and having their arguments boiled down to the lowest common denominator belief of "freedom". Whether that be freedom to do something or freedom not to have something done to you. Doesn't really matter though as either position has become some essentialized and abstracted from what the original issue was that it serves it's purpose well as fodder for the red vs blue propogandizing that takes place each election cycle where the politicians give lip service to the ideas their constituents care about while consistently failing to provide any real benefit to the American people beyond perhaps inadvertently providing the political entertainment industry with all it's material.

I'll always argue that safety and prosperity are more important issues to pursue than freedom because freedom requires both. You can be legally free to do something but if you can't do it safely and lack the means to do it you aren't truly free.

In terms of the trans issue the entire conversation has gotten away from "what is the best approach to ensure the long term happiness and success of people who are struggling with this issue" through the culture war machine to "they're coming for your children!" Whereas where the flavor of that argument is "The Dems are coming to make your kids trans" vs "The Right wants your kids to die!" comes down largely to region and socio-economic status as to which is believed.

Like any good propoganda there are shades of truth to both of the LCD mainstream political opinions. There's a great deal of Leftwing desire to promote inclusivity in ways where they've not fully thought out the social effects of their rather shallow desires to be nice to everyone, we've seen it with bullying in the past where they inadvertently give the kids more ideas of how to bully each other, and there's a great deal of right wing desire to impose a kind of rigid one size fits all approach to problems that might be effective for the majority but likely fails to address issues that will effect minorities severely enough that it will hinder the overall ability to provide societal stability in the long term.

In reality any society is going to need a healthy left and right wing functioning both to innovate new solutions are work out exceptions to policy and to insulate against bad ideas and poorly thought out solutions to problems. Currently both sides absolutely hate each other and act in opposition consistently ostracizing anyone who doesn't go in lockstep with the more ideologically "pure" or "extremist" positions on issues and that greatly hinders anyone's ability to actually properly construct policies that will be stable or even functional.