Yes. To me the real story is not that a mentally disturbed person is trying to make himself intro a crude facsimile of a woman, but that the media breathlessly legitimizes his delusion with all the language used to describe women, as if you can just flip a switch and do a find & replace in Word to change all the "his, him, he" to "her, her, she" and -- voila! -- planet Earth's female population has just increased by 1.
What will it be like when entire generations are raised to think this way? Words have to mean something. I don't think it can possibly last for multiple generations, it's too dramatically militant against reality, but it can do a lot of damage along the way.