My parents are hardcore conspiracy theorists. They believe (through the cultish scaremongering that is alternative media) that LGBT people, trans people especially, are being "promoted" in society (celebrities coming out, politicians bringing up LGBT subjects, more media attention, etc...) to scapegoat them and make the other parts jealous of the attention we're getting and/or dislike the "special" treatment. This is apparently part (one of many) of a grand scheme to turn society against itself, this particular way being to cause friction between LGBT and "normal" people, for the ultimate purpose of easy populace control, yadda yadda.
These same people are convinced and have convinced other people that breaking down the gender binary, school sex education for children (involving discussions about gay people, trans people and anal sex), extensive chemical tampering/experimentation and general mental manipulation of certain people leads to "making" people gay, bi and trans, leading to an "extremely unusual" increase in the LGBT population (and thereby pedophilia) compared to any other point in history. They deny that increasingly open sources of information and a massively reduced stigma of these kinds of things in recent history is the cause, and is a silly argument.
I am not exaggerating in the slightest or making a single word of this up.
Last edited: Mar 17, 2016