I brought this the previous thread but since it got brought up and also something that happened to me today of the web I'll bring it up again, I really hate it when people use the "debate" about trans people to push their own faiths, whether Christians, Atheists etc.
Being an Atheist does not make you any less likely to be transphobic, informed about trans people or even more progressive in general; hell some of the most hardcore TERFs are also atheists in part because they use their atheism and their personal beliefs as practically a pseudo religion (last time I brought this up, it was in relation to Helen Joyce for example) and ignores the many religious trans people out there. In the same vein, your religious beliefs does not give you the right to deny trans people our existence, especially when you warp, lie and ignore your own faith to justify your hate; and again ignore the many religious trans people out there. You do not have the moral high-ground, you're just a hateful shit using your religion as a shield which sadly in the UK and US, hateful Christians have used to great success.
Some of the most progressive and pro trans people I've met have been religious, from Wicca, Pagan, Buddhist and Shik; and some of the biggest transphobes I've met off the web have been self-proclaimed atheists and vice versa. The sad fact is that TERFs will weaponize anything and everything against us, use any excuse to try to erase us and if they can't find anything, make stuff up to try to make us disappear.