ESR is the author of “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”.

Now that he has come clean on his antagonistic stance on trans, how does that impact the ethos of Ethereum?

Also, point 1 is harder to achieve once someone has grown past puberty without puberty blockers.

Is his stance antagonistic against trans, or against antagonistic trans?

Antagonistic against ALL trans (which includes both antagonistic and non-antagonistic trans). He intentionally hides an unreasonable request amongst reasonable ones. Very insidious.