Unfortunately, that's not true. They've learned that by sticking to girls, they can get away with it by claiming that woke culture is attacking normal red-blooded manly urges.
There are multiple things weird about this. While the furry controversy is a descendant of the 2000s "next they'll want to marry animals" trope, the idea of ripping on furries in particular as an anti-trans dogwhistle is from, of all places, 4chan and Something Awful. It's cross-pollination from /pol/ and gamergate lol
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Fun fact: Twin Peaks actually was super popular in Japan, so that conversation could almost actually happen!