I mean, admittedly all I have to go off of is the screenshots in the original article which may be fabricated, but I don't think I've seen anyone disputing that and the social media is scrubbed so I can't verify that either. But based on that, she is self-describing as a trans woman, and not for nothing, both the articles and the pictures I've seen of her (including boymode) make it seem like she's been on HRT for a while. Overweight middle aged white guys in Alabama don't tend to have skin that smooth.

Obviously cishet article writers are gonna ignore all that or just play the "well there's no way to know" card, but I don't care to. It's not cis until proven trans.