Why are anti lgbtqia laws on the books in many states?

For example conversion therapy is still legal in many states.
A gay or trans person can be refused service
An intersex child can still be operated on and medically tortured to normalize their genitalia
Agencies can refuse gay couples adopting children etc.
I mean even if you don’t agree with lgbtqia + what happened to treating everyone with love and equality?
And why can’t certain people just keep their opinions to themselves?
Also protections for non binary, intersex, and trans people on legal documents have been rescinded under the trump administration where it states you can only keep your birth sex on your documents and only male or female options

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calicuz · 56-60, M

There are many laws still on the books that are outdated, but we don't remove laws from thd books, we create new laws that supersede the old laws.
The Civil Rights Act of 1965 is a federal law that gives everyone, and protects everyone's civil rights, so any "anti-gay law" on the books is supersede by the Civil Rights Act.
For example (non-gay issue). In the state of Kansas, there is still a law on thr books ghat states a girl of 13 years of age is of legal age to marry. Our Federal Laws protecting children would supersede that old law, in a court of law of course.