I think some are natural haters and they pile onto the latest hate fad. We've seen how it shifts from one group to the next. It's horrific.

And it's always the relatively powerless people who can't effectively fight back. Now we have legislatures passing laws that marginalize LGBTQ people, which legitimizes discrimination against them, which in turn gives the haters permission to harm them. Members of racial/ethnic minorities are still victimized but they have more legal and numerical clout than they used to, so the mean people had to find an even less powerful group to pick on. People can really suck sometimes.

The Republicons have been at it again, and again, with their bathroom bills, and other anti trans legislation, requiring teachers to notify parents if a student changes their pronouns, or name in school.. The are deliberately creating a pariah group. NC's super majority. Super majorities allow them to pass mean spirited, castigating, punitive bills that become law, giving others a right to discriminate, by overriding the Governors veto.

I'll make them a statistic if they want to try to make me one.

... are raging, narrow-minded bigots, and they didn't get it from their mother or me, that's for sure.
Not long ago, I had to shut the older one up with this:

Do you know why men have nipples? Because every human being that has ever walked the Earth was – and is – female from the moment of conception and well into gestation. The Y chromosome begins to make its presence known at around 7 weeks. Now, every change a fetus experiences can happen at differing intervals, and at infinitely variable rates, and the same holds true for the brain. which means that, yeah, children are literally born gay every day. It is not a choice. Bigots deny it because they need for it to be a choice so they can condemn those children for making the wrong choice.

So his red-faced response was, "I don't believe that."

I said, science doesn't care whether or not you believe it, J. It'll just go on being true and leave you wallowing in your own little cesspool of malice and ignorance. But I said it gently, and with a smile.

Hang in there, Vercetti!