Stop! Stop already with this idiocy. The whole point of the article was to tell us that a man fought a woman. Call it what it is.
I would say "they can't help themselves" but it is more than that. They WANT you to play this transsexual-label game in your head, and do it to the point you can seamlessly translate things like this and...censor your own "wrong-think" when you get confused and ask yourself commonsense questions.