I think the sort of "active" transphobia practiced by people Linehan, Rowling, et al (as opposed to the more passive transphobia of bigots who don't spend their free time being transphobic) can be looked at in the same light as Morgellons, chronic Lyme, gangstalking and other internet brain diseases
Active transphobia is death drive - "the compulsion to repeat" - par excellence. Bigots subjecting themselves to stimuli they find disturbing *as a hobby.* Freud said the drive looked like "daemonic force at work" and, when I see anti-trans "activists," they look possessed by something awful.
"Every drive is an attempt to go beyond the pleasure principle, to the realm of excess jouissance where enjoyment is experienced as suffering."