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IMHO, covert and overt discrimination are part of the same continuum. While it's true that the effects are very different, between for example physically assaulting someone for being different, versus talking privately with friends about your true feelings, I believe they have the same etiology.

Things that support this suggestion:

"Because that is how these people work. It's not that they hate trans people consciously or actively. They just hate the thought that they might have to change some aspect of their lives, however trivial, for them."