I'd also like to add that y'all should stop saying "transgenders" or "transgendered". Its not a disorder. Its a state of mind. They are transgender. A transgender individual. The way you speak about disenfranchised groups matters as to how they are perceived.

Let's not forget bi in there.

That's what I've never understood - if one is solid in what they believe, why are they so easily rattled by different - or no religion, or different ways of loving ? The way some people behave, you'd think a different sexual orientation is a transmissible virus !

Because the holy books say homosexuals (particularly men) are abhorrent, and so anybody with a non-standard sexuality or gender identity sort of gets lumped in with that. "Obviously a man in a dress is gay, I mean how on earth could that be a straight woman?" etc. It is a convenient excuse to hate and fear the unfamiliar instead of just living with it.

People fear what they don't know or understand.

Minorities are easy targets, less backlash. They also target atheists more than competing religions.

Fear of someone who’s different, the fear can lead to hate and hate allows dehumanizing of LGBT people. Once a group (any group) is dehumanized it is a very short step to bashing.

Fist, they don't understand gays. lesbian, and transgender people. Second, That lack of understanding links with their being blind true believers to make them vulnerable to manipulation. Third, hate-mongering preachers and religious leaders tell the true believers that different people are evil.

I actually have a post pending about this. Anyway, I don't know why it is, but I do know thate my own parents disapprove of my sexuality.

Because homosexuality doesn't fit their simple straightforward understanding of the world. So it must be a creation of the devil.

because they can't fight back well. Humanity looks for a victim that they can attack and torture. Like a well fed housecat with a mouse to gnaw and swat and keep alive for days.

Most groups if you attack them: they attack back, they die, they enlist allies to defend themselves, or they leave.

LGBTQ types are the best victims to torture. Since they appear naturally they are a renewable resource, since it is near random where they occur you can always accuse anyone of being a member of the group, since they are always born into a community alien to themselves they really can't leave en-mass, since they are at most 2% of the population they can't really defend themselves.

The religious people of the world can continue to attack the same group of people over and over and over again, knowing that they can't leave, fight back, organize, or even be defended. Each one can be hunted down and tortured and no matter how many times that happens another one just comes into the world. They are the most perfect kicking bag in human existence. And to sweeten the pot if the religious do it right they can get them to torture themselves for them, and relish in the fact they outsourced human misery.

I wish I was wrong, but I don't think I am. The simple truth is LGBTQ are the easiest group to torture so the religious choose them. Once a heretic is burned they are gone, once a people are genocided they are dead, but no action short of human species extinction will remove the LGBTQ from the earth forever. I wish I could tell anyone reading this that one day this will change, and the religious will either vanish or at the very least stop picking on you people. I wish I could say that.

Because they see them as their "God" making a mistake. Think about it.... gays and lesbians can't have children, and we all know that our goal in like is procreation. Transgenders mean God doesn't know what he (or she) is doing since they made said person in the wrong gender. I would hate to see that they think of hermaphrodites.

Because those judgmental assholes don't see them as fellow humans. .They see them as "abominations". Not all of them obviously, but there are some that fit this bill.

Speaking specifically of Christian or Muslim haters, yes, their scriptures appear to condemn homosexuality and anything that crosses gender norms (though there are very few references in scripture). But I think the real reason for that is their fundamental subjugation of women. Women in Biblical times were basically chattel, with no rights. LGBT people represent a threat to the rigid socially constructed gender boundaries that those people want to believe are divinely mandated. So they attack.

No. They are ignorant and cling like a vice to their ignorant views.

Haters gotta hate.

Because they're ignorant and following a book that also tells them the world is 6,000 yrs old.

Probably because they (LGBT) are in a minority and not understood and feared. To not understand can lead to fear, fear can lead to hate, hate can lead to crimes physical or otherwise, leads to feelings of satisfaction after doing something to prevent or hurt such persons (power and pleasurable feelings?). I took bash to mean metaphorically and literally bash,

People are hypocrites.

Cause they have a phobia

Because of the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. If the country turns gay enough god will bring on the fire and brimstone. They are actually trying to protect the country from a fairy tale, but a fairy tail they believe.

I don't know especially when you often get priests etc abusing kids.

Probably because they're easy targets since they're a minority, plus the fact that most religious entities have in one form or another "marriage" or a union.

In order to procreate, marriage and sex are vital to a species survival. This is probably why until recently these types of people weren't accepted. Without surrogacy or IVF gays and lesbians wouldn't be able to have children.

So in the eyes of religion, they would be defective humans who couldn't create life and therefore would be detrimental if their sexual preference spread to an entire community. Leading to extinction.

I'm all in favour of gays, lesbians and transgender people. But I don't think we should force religious people to marry them. That's forcing people against their will and beliefs to do something that makes them uncomfortable. It's kind of like blackmail since some people try to force the government to force religious priests to marry them.

I believe they openly belittle GLBT individuals because their book lacks instructions on how they should feel about these individuals and we are just easy targets for them.
It isn't "an abomination unto the lord" just because it makes you uncomfortable and don't know how to react to it, Mom.

Because it's the only sin they don't personally do themselves, even if it's because they were born hetero, through no virtue of their own.

Obviously we're an afront to their "High Moral" standards..unlike Drumpf who's an outstanding Christian liar, misogynist, greedy, 3x divorced, incest dreaming, bankrupt, sexual predator kind of man.