The 'report' is another heavily biased opinion piece from the Telegraph, designed to appeal to the right audience—you know, the ones who still wish pitchforks were a thing (back in the good old days etc).
No one was ever asking for special treatment, just to be treated with some dignity, not marginalised, victimised and to have some of the same rights as other citizens.
So what, why does that bother people? They're different: so what?
A few years ago, no one cared about trans people.
It's been the rise of popularism, led by right wing bigots, and supported by enough dumb people that's put trans people in the firing line, and made the T in LGBT a thing.
Approximately 0.6 of the US population identifies as trans. Real threat, eh?
The amount of time and effort put into this is stupid and disproportionate. But who needs sense when stupid means we can have fun being hateful.