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*Everyone who inserts non-sequiturs about "perverts hanging out in women's restrooms" into completely unrelated conversations, because trans restroom bans are a hot-button topic, is transphobic.
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Nothing about that comment had anything to do with trans people. He was talking about literal perverts. Not trans individuals. As indicated by his qualifier of "non-zero number of people" -- clearly referring to someone with the intent of using the rules in their favor, while not being a part of that class of individuals.
This is an incidence of someone basically going "And the murder weapon was a cast iron pan!!", and someone random in the crowd yelling "WHY ARE YOU TARGETTING ME!!??!" even though nobody suspected them in the first place.
If you're a pervert, fine. But he wasn't talking about you.
This is an incredibly bad-faith argument. He was talking about trans women, using intentionally obfuscating language. You know that. I know that. Everyone knows that. Stop trying to defend the indefensible.