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The charitable reading is that The Mushroom Kingom is meant to be this Wonderland-like place Mario and Luigi sorta stumbled across one day. Things don't make sense in The Mushroom Kingdom and you're not supposed to think about it too deeply.
The more realistic reading is that nobody thought "Hey is this a transphobia?" while they were writing this line. According to the SMB2 manual, the trans character wishes to be called Birdetta, so they've been deadnaming her for decades. Did we really expect better?
I would invite you to entertain the first reading for a second to step into the consciousness of a canon enjoyer where you need proof that Mario and Luigi are human. I believe a running rabbit in Super Mario Galaxy confirms that Mario is a human while lamenting having been caught by a lowly human. A line like this, taking as an expansion of the canon, like in the first Mario movie where it's revealed that Mario's full name is Mario Mario, one would be crushed to learn that Yoshi is not a dinosaur. Check out a fun exerpt from the Mario wiki:
And for what it's worth, this was catalogued in the same page about Yoshi: