My only experience with trans involves two co workers ( at different jobs ) over the years. Both of them did not respect boundaries, and both of them were bat shit crazy. Like two of the craziest people I've ever met in my life. The one would regularly go into detail about the operations that he would be undergoing, even though I expressed that I was at work and did not feel this was a professional conversation ( politely, I really don't judge, I feel people should have the ability to be whoever they want ) He (she?) consisently tried to make me feel uncomfortable, even though at every attempt I was understanding and sympathetic, but would put my foot down with the professionalism thing, and honestly it did make me feel uncomfortable, what people do, who they choose to be, and what surgical operations they decide to undertake is totally up to them. I don't judge, but I am not comfortable listening about surgical details to any surgery. Some people are into that shit. I'm not. I made myself clear, and neither of the two respected me or my space. The first was much worse than the second, threatened to show me his boobs one day if I didn't listen to his story about hair removal.
Both of them were very underhanded, trying to get coworkers fired over nothing, the pettiest shit. I would simply play it off like I was on their side, so they would start telling me everything about how the one co worker doesn't do his job or clean up or whatever, meanwhile I know that coworker does, and in the one case it was the trans fellow who genuinely did not get their work done, and was trying to blame it on someone else... (s)he seems to genuinely believe that the other co workers were at fault though, as I said, bat shit crazy...
The one fellow would come in totally unshaven but wearing female clothes. It was... Interesting. He also used to be a personal trainer at a gym, so there's that.
Those are the only first hand encounters I've had with trans people.
The two I met were entirely outspoken, and tried to make me out as a bad person for simply not wanting to hear details about surgery. Again, I avoid that stuff. I see surgerys being done on TV and think it's insane that anyone actually sits down and watches that shit... Anyways. If the situations were reversed, and I was a girl, I'm 100% sure that I could have filed sexual harassment charges against them. I'm pretty sure I could have simply from the one threatening to show me his tits. ( Wasn't a hollow threat, he tried to do it on camera one day.. )
So yeah, I dunno. I know not all trans people are crazy, just like all human beings aren't crazy, but I get that 'over the top' feeling from them in general. It's like, calm the fuck down, you don't see everyone else going around telling everyone about their sexuality, and talking about their bodies, and their penises or vaginas. So just calm the fuck down and enjoy life... I mean, these are simply things I wanted to say to them, like hey, if you're doing this for you, why do you care so much about everyone else? The one guy who used to be a personal trainer, he even would make creepy ass comments about trying to pick up drunk chicks now that he's a "lesbian". So, I dunno. Again I'm not trying to say that all transgenders are like this, not even trying to say a percentage are, maybe I just ran into the only two crazy trans people in existence, I don't know, or care, just sharing my first hand experiences as a fairly open minded guy.