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Interesting that you chose to be passive aggressive and get your back up at the the idea that he's transphobic, rather than simply asking for evidence...
In any case, he did an article on his blog celebrating Abigail Shrier and her transphobic Irreversible Damage book. I'm not going to link to his blog, but if you want to find it, it was posted in March 2024
As I remembered, he positively reviewed a different book by her (Bad Therapy), which deals with parenting, and not with trans issues. Looking again (not happily), he does mention Irreversible Damage — but in passing, in an ambivalent way.
I think he never broached that particular topic, but I don't have the stomach to go over DHH's writing and check in detail. So you might be right.