That smarmy shit weasel knows damned good and well that you can't eliminate transgender "ism" without eliminating transgender PEOPLE. If he's going to make a hateful, intolerant, violently transphobic pronouncement like that in a public forum where everything is being recorded on video and widely disseminated, he needs to be ready to OWN every hateful, intolerant, violently transphobic word of it!
Hey, Knowles, you're not fooling ANYBODY. Everyone who has seen or will see that video knows/will know exactly who and what you are. You don't get to say something that horrifying, then turn around and claim that what everyone heard (and recorded on video) didn't mean what it obviously meant, based on some b.s. semantic "distinction" that you just conveniently pulled out of your ass.
If this disingenuous S.O.B. is stupid enough to think he can wiggle out of this, he really needs to disabuse himself of that notion. If he's actually so stupid that he didn't think through those words and realize what they meant and how they would inevitably be taken before he said them into a microphone, in front of video cameras..... no, I refuse to believe he's THAT stupid. He knew exactly what he was saying and exactly what it meant, and now that he's been called out, he wants to backtrack and pretend that's really not what he meant.
I don't know what offends me more, his hateful, intolerant, violent transphobia, or his unwillingness to own up to it.