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No, it says the used "homophobic slurs".
From this article https://abc7chicago.com/post/kady-grass-injured-knocked-unconscious-allegedly-homophobic-mcdonalds-attack-carpentersville-illinois/16474284/
"One of them called me a ***. I was very upset at that," Grass said.
What 3 letter homophobic slur do you think John Kammrad, the adult attacker, and his juvenile accomplice called her? I can only think of one, and it's not one that is used against cis women...
From another article https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/kane-county-prosecutors-hate-crime-investigation-mcdonalds-attack-carpentersville/
_Police arrested 19-year-old John Kammrad and a 17-year-old boy, and they both face several charges, including aggravated battery.
Grass has said she went to the McDonald's in Carpentersville with her 13-year-old cousin after his choir concert. A group of strangers started harassing her and using anti-gay slurs as she left the restroom.
When she walked away, she said they followed. She told the strangers she is a lesbian and flicked her wrist at them.
"How it started was because I'm a lesbian — just because I walked into the woman's bathroom, and I looked the way I look," Grass said._
She attempted to get rid of the people following her by informing them she was a lesbian. The only context that makes sense is if they accused her of being trans...
You are right the quote says 'homophobic slurs'. That one is on me.
Your explanation for it definitely being transphobes (which most homophobes likely are too, which is why I'm going to assume that you didn't think they were homophobes) seems speculative unless the three wildcards are indeed one letter each (which could probably be checked by finding other articles from the same writer and checking it for different lengths of asterisks) and there is a homophobic slur specific to men that would match.
There's no reason homophobes would not be upset about a homosexual person going to the bathroom and if the person was visibly queer that would be enough.
The assumption that I made in the first set of brackets of the second paragraph ended up being quite important but otherwise your original statement doesn't make sense.