I can hear his press confession now...
“Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.
And so my truth is that I am a half-black, half-Muslim, coke-snorting, gay American....”
You are correct, that is usually how someone like this comes “out.”
The “gender issues/identity” explaination.