People (particularly western society) have a pretty awful history when it comes to jumping on excuses to dehumanize, and I feel like regardless of whether this target is sentient or not, we should probably not play into that impulse any further–for the sake of ourselves and also all of the humans we continue to dehumanize.

Hey maybe don’t judge an entire culture by its worst adherents? Are we really still doing this 9/11-era nonsense?

The trans people asking you to not materially support someone who is harming us at scale are not your mom telling you you’re not allowed to play your video games, dude. You’re perfectly allowed to be an asshole