It is not religious groups at all.

The transgender activists want ugly women because they themselves can only be that close to look like one.

It is absolutely an identity ideological tool to send a message to these people.

Apparently you know nothing about how Catholics view beauty.

Did you know beauty is the way to correlate to God in aesthetics and hence why cathedrals and churches have always been built as beautiful places?

Maybe it would do you some good learning about the war on beauty in general and how classical education is aimed to rescue beauty in our daily life.