I think socially liberal movements have made so much progress, at least on paper, that they are running out of things to do. They went from fighting for the vote for women (50%), then Jim Crow for blacks (13%), to marriage equality for gays (2-5%), that now they are on to bathroom equality for transgender people (much less than 1%). So the intensity per oppressed person they are fighting for has to increase to satisfy the market demand for socially progressive activism. Note that the bathroom equality fight is framed in terms of transgender individuals getting “killed” which is the extreme outlier case (and even was in Jim Crow, but less so).