To the columnist:

Why are you "betting [the transphobia is] from his father"? Did you read this bit?

Then she told me that her son “doesn’t hate transgender people. He hates the hype of trans people.” I asked what hype, and she explained that trans people are in the news all the time now; everyone is saying they are trans for attention nowadays; it’s all hype, hype, hype. She then refused to discuss it anymore.