DISCLAIMER: I'm not by any means informed or educated on gun rights and legislation. I do find your perspective interesting and thank you for sharing.

I think most politicians in the USA are just full of shit generally, but I don't see how Dems are targeting LGBT with gun control measures. "Gun rights are LGBT rights" feels like strawman, and meant to divert attention away from gun rights and instead gain sympathy and support as a minority member of society. Which is what the Dems have been doing, appealing to minority classes and feelings instead of focusing on the actual problem(s) at hand and how to resolve them.

anti-LGBT hate crimes on the rise

Using HRC as a source is disingenuous, they are firmly left and heavily biased, and it discredits the whole basis of your article.

HRC drank the kool-aid years ago, and act as if any minority person being harmed is automatically a hate crime because of being a member of that group. They also include all the letters after T in the alphabet as belonging to LGBT, and the majority of those have no logical grounding where legislation and facts are concerned, as they are personal identifications and feelings. Doing so undercuts the legitimacy and validity of LGBT needs by muddying the waters with dual-diagnosed social and personal issues.

Look at that big bold italicized quote right in the middle of the press release you shared.

Yet another year with alarming levels of bias-motivated crimes underscores just how urgent it is to address this hate crimes epidemic.

Bias-motivated, and hate crime, are two different things. Everyone has biases, it doesn't mean those biases are hatred or the reason a crime was committed. This is pandering and manipulation.

This year, we saw a tragic new record of fatal violence against transgender and gender non-conforming people in this country, particularly against Black and Brown transgender women.

Couldn't just keep it on LGBT could they, better bring in race to appeal to more people!

The report was released in late 2020, and provided statistics for 2019. I notice the HRC conveniently DID NOT link to the actual data, or any official summaries, they just released their point of view.

• Here is the report, if anyone wants to dive into tables and raw data
• Here is a summary of highlights
  

The actual literal numbers tell you what's happening. Don't look at percentages, they switch to percentages once it makes their argument look better.

• Sexual Orientation: 1196/2018 vs. 1195/2019 - down by one person
  
• Gender Identity: 168/2018 vs. 198/2019 - up by 30 people
  
• Gender: 49/2018 vs. 69/2019 - up by 20 people
  

So the grand total of LGBT "hate crimes" went from 1413 to 1462.

That is not an epidemic by any stretch of the imagination, and has no bearing whatsoever on gun rights and legislation, nor the second amendment.