While her family’s obituary used female pronouns,
“her family’s obituary”
The entire family must have died and were all included in the same obituary.
I tried reading an article on this person on the gay site, The Advocate, and the article kept using they, their, etc. pronouns. It gets confusing when they were describing others in the bathroom. Enough of these crazies changing the definition of words.
Oddly enough. Strictly speaking, "gender" is a grammatical category, and in English a property of personal pronouns. Pronouns have three genders: Masculine, Feminine, and Neuter. He, she, it. Pronouns are not "Male, female, and hermaphrodite".
Sex is a biological category. Mammals have one of two sexes, Male or Female. Science! More science: Pronouns are not mammals!