It's a context thing.
That statement comes from a time when censorship was actually a thing and speaking against a government as casually as we do now was sedition and carried prison time or worse.
A lot of people would say that "being trans is awesome actually" shouldn't be allowed. And where are these guys then? Same place as the 2A people during the BLM protests. At home ignoring tyranny.
Rather suggests where their values lie.