There will never be any sensible rationale from that quarter; their lives are being lived in an attempted alternative reality where any facts or words that jar it must be twisted around, denied, suppressed and if possible erased.An inability to deal with reality as too personally threatening is the starting point for everything.
The point of noting and commenting on it here is not to 'be mean to trans people' - for a start it's not 'people', it's exclusively men - but how very, very often sex offenders come from this group of men. And this is the group of men insisting they wish to be in women and girls' spaces. These articles demonstrate yet again why permitting it is an act of stupidity at Trumpian levels. And always, inevitably, along pops the 'ally' to demonstrate the 'you mustn't notice that bit of reality' issue that is playing a central role in such stupidity.
My only thought on reading that article was that I am absolutely sure those poor children and their entire families would have liked to have been able to flee in distress, but he didn't allow it, and the impact of him using them for his sexual enjoyment will affect them for the rest of their lives.