In the right contexts it can be a good reason. In this case I can imagine reports on the comments were flying left and right, despite the article itself having no issues. That might have provoked a removal, habitually to avoid needing to go into the comments section with a surgical needle to remove the transphobia, bigotry, off-topic comments and flame-baiting.

The post seems to have been re-upped by someone else, no comments, so I think (and you don’t have to agree with me for any of this) there’s no issue with the article itself. I’ll be charitable and put the removal modlog comment as reference to the contained comments getting way too political for the site, rather than the article.