Women are more likely to get fooled by fashionable nonsense. The most charitable scenario is that she misguidedly believes she is picking the least bad option here. Another possibility is that she is nuts.
Parents of. Children with gender dysphoria are told that their children will commit suicide if they deny the sex change medical treatments.
The culture also has shifted so now it is cool to be gay or trans nowadays. Somewhere along the way, we went from some sort of simple toleration of all this LGBT business, to actually celebrating and pushing for people to identify as such.
She may just be seeking revenge on the dad.