Tyson’s public thoughts are proof that delusions aren’t limited to mentally ill people, including seriously mentally ill people such as “transsexuals”.
Delusion disorder might be a better moniker. He already posits that the universe might be a “simulation”. Nutty people take what “facts” there are and fit it into the outworking of their minds. Like king Charles VI of France who, like some of his time, thought he was made of glass.