I'll be entirely honest with the motivation behind making the post to begin with. Primarily the idea was to say 'we are trans-inclusive enough to put something like this in the game, and we are not unwilling to say that out loud.'
The first effect this has is to help people with certain identities feel safer in the community (we got DMs afterwards thanking us for the post and that it was nice to see that the remake is going this direction), and the second is to expose people who aren't dumb enough to be vocally transphobic, but are transphobic enough that seeing the trans flag received positively pisses them off. Once that's done, we can go through and remove them from the community pretty simply, because we do not want them here in any form.
Your case obviously falls in the latter, and as such this appeal will be unanimously denied.