But I still don't understand what this "conversation" that needs having is.

The original article - which I now believe is fake, since I searched to find what it might refer to, and found nothing, and the original writer hasn't clearer up - claimed that someone was allowed to get away with a crime because they were trans.

No rational person on either side agrees with this.

So what's the conservation we're going to have? "People should be punished for crimes!" "Yep!"