This is literally the formerly held view by many, possible you, about Homosexuality. Transgenderism has been around for the entire history of humankind. It is way more common in non-Western civilizations, probably due to religious affiliation.
The "rise" is more likely due to people being much more comfortable and feeling safer to be open about themselves.
Again, someone else having more rights doesn't take away your rights.
This is so week-kneed and just intellectually dishonest because you don't ever want to take a stand on much of anything for whatever reason. Milk toast about everything doesn't work man. What rights are you talking about here? What rights of trans people are being taken away or are a threat? You need to define what you're chastising people about... for once. So I will wait to hear what you have to say about this. I'd like to know exactly what you think people want to take away.