It truly seems this stems to infiltration of educational institutions that started decades ago. Small step after step, science stopped being science and started being an ideological tool, and now "follow the science" has become "trust ideological quasi-scientific dogma". It's a movement of people who want to shape the world a certain way, whether it can work that way or not, and have subverted science to serve that. The others follow on the basis of authority, and that the "scientific" pronouncements match the biases taught in school.

To clarify: I support the right of gay people to marry, but the causes of race correlation with poverty are completely and intentionally misunderstood, and the pretense that we have the technical ability to actually change people's gender is completely jumping the shark.