A subtle aspect is that many of these people do like fucking trans women, but those trans women need to be vulnerable and disposable. When job discrimination is legal/encouraged, trans people turn to prostitution.
A lot of the conservative Christian machine is really a massive D/s kink. Punishing women for having sex, murdering trans women for making their dick hard.
So much of the actions of Trump, Musk, McConnell - it’s a power fetish. That’s why it often seems counterintuitive or pointlessly cruel. There’s an erotic thrill from being able to control others and to hurt them.