...will the board consider explicit transphobia hate-speech?

See, this is why Sunny Daze going down this path of misparsing and distorting what Urbanredneck said is such a distraction. Half the posts in in this thread are now about something he didn’t say. Again, he said:

IN context, his second sentence should obviously be parsed as:

In other words, his rhetorical structure, in context, is precisely equivalent to saying (correcting his willful misgendering):

Nothing more. In plain English, his statement does not exclude the (misguided) belief that transmen are women, transowomen are men, i.e. that gender identity as distinct from biological sex assigned at birth is in some sense not real. Can we please put to bed the false claim that he said anyone is not a real person, and stick to the actual important issue at hand, of whether the vile things he did say should be tolerated on this board.