re: For those of you that hate gay people and transgenders.. why?.

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I'm not religious, but I would get blasted on social media if I said something negative about Christians or religion. 

I agree with your equivalency to a degree. My question is, would you be debated, or "attacked" in an incredibly vile manner? In my experience, the "friend of a friend" that inevitably found their way into the thread were basically the gay/trans equivalent of the Westboro Baptist nutjobs

Christianity is shoved in my face all the time... literally. 

So you have a LGBTQ equivalency.

Yet, I still dont let it upset me until it starts to impede on my rights. 

Let me guess...buying a cake

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In my own personal experience, I taught a student that was trans. They wanted to be referred to by their "male name, and male pronouns. I was more than happy to oblige. However, I was also more than aware of the potential legal ramifications concerning my position. We had/have a great rapport and it seems it was a good experience for both of us. Again, though, it wasn't without concerns dealing with job security and potential litigation.
It is what it is.

Lastly, my take..."I don't care what you do, just don't try to ruin my life for disagreeing with you," seems to be a reoccurring belief based on most of the responses in this thread.
Based on your thread title, I'm not sure if the responses were what you expected. Just my .02.

I don’t hate either. Far from it. In fact, in general I believe that consenting adults should be able to dress however they want, do whatever they want to their hair, go by whichever name they choose, and engage in a sexual relationship with any other mentally competent, consenting adult they want. I even think that their right to do all those things should be legally protected. (Just as I think others’ right to express an opposing belief should be protected, ftr.)

I do hate the campaign of propaganda and public shaming that a small minority of individuals — extremists mostly at the “TQ” end of the spectrum — have used to essentially beat the entire population into submission, though. I’m a very live-and-let-live kind of person, and I can’t imagine what it would be like to live with severe gender dysphoria or some sort of gender identity disorder (even if just an intense feeling that you don’t quite fit the mold) for years or decades. I sympathize deeply with those who do and think they deserve both human compassion and the best help and support available. However, it’s like we’ve bent so far backwards trying instead to make life “fair” for this small subset of people (who could easily be categorized as suffering from a type of body dysmorphic disorder) that we’ve fallen off some sort of intellectual cliff into a pit of pseudoscience and negative peer pressure, in complete denial of two realities:

1. Life is never “fair”, especially for people with any number of organic physical or mental issues; and

2. In every other instance where people’s personal desires or perception of themselves differ wildly from objective fact, we don’t handwave those objective facts because they’re uncomfortable and try to create some illusive wish fulfillment scenario. We recognize that the only way to help them feel and function better long-term is to address the incongruous perception at the source, no matter how unpleasant that may be in the short-term.

Can you imagine if a group of people with severe anorexia banded together and demanded that we accept their inherent fatness because it’s their truth and it’s hurtful when we call them dangerously undernourished and in need of medical help, and asserted that the other 99.9% of us are the ones who actually need treatment? Because honestly, when I see schoolbooks that state “some boys have periods” or trans women competing in sports against genetic/phenotypic females, it feels like that’s exactly what’s happening, and somehow we’ve bought into it. It also feels about as cruel and futile to me as telling people with anorexia that goodness, they really ARE fat and we’ll do everything we can to help them starve themselves because we don’t want to hurt their feelings and/or open ourselves up to being bullied in the name of progressivism.

Nobody actually hates them.

Personally and probably others, are grossed out by the thought of homosexuality.
Some call it homophobia, but that would imply fear of homosexuals and I don't think anyone is "affraid" of them.

Transgenders are just fricked up idiots and are mentally ill.

99% of people don’t feel that way about homosexuality. Simply untrue in today’s USA. It’s virtually accepted everywhere at this point.

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Personally and probably others, are grossed out by the thought of homosexuality.

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People are grossed out by eating frog legs, they must hate cajuns!

Homosexuality has been present in humans for centuries, so I reject your notion that it is abnormal. Further, sexual acts often associated with homosexuality are also very common in heterosexual couples. Anal sex, oral sex, masturbation, etc., so I'd also argue those acts are normal.

If heterosexual couples were only having penis-vagina intercourse for procreation, then you'd maybe have a point. They don't. The vast majority of heterosexual intercourse is for pleasure and enjoyment.

They are different. I don't know anyone who hates people because they are gay. I know a lot of people who are scared of transgender people because they are mentally unstable.

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strong disliking for uber-tiny-minority groups trying to shove their ideals down my throat

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This.

I dont care if you are gay. I got plenty of shite to worry about on my own much less who you like to frick.

I just dislike the members of this group who feel the need to project this on others and make it known to the world who they like.

i dont press my beliefs on others and i'd appreciate if you dont either. They just want attention imo

Deleted. Not even worth my time.