Sounds like that is the case for her, then. Can't say I've been keeping up with that particular story. One of my friends has had a similarly-describable situation from a very early age as well.
Though again, using that phrase is lumping everything into one essentialist label that says everything rather than decomposing it into the potentially more useful descriptive subcategories 'how one wants to be considered socially', 'the body one wishes one had' / 'the body one is willing to have given current medical technology and the costs and tradeoffs thereof', 'how one wishes to behave', and 'how one identifies internally'. Often these go together making that phrase more or less applicable, but sometimes they don't, and to get at the truth can then require finer detail depending on what you want to know and who you are describing.
Two other friends of mine have had more complicated situations in their lives - one whom goes to some effort to decrease their external femininity in favor of a more androgynous presentation to match the way they feel internally and their dislike of a feminine appearance [while not going through the efforts of invasive medical transition because the effort and tradeoffs are not worth it to them, but would still choose a very different physical appearance if the tradeoffs were smaller and easier], and one whom is fine with a male body and being called 'he' but whom behaves in a very feminine manner because that is just the way he is and he feels being physically male doesn't dictate his behavior, and feels wrong behaving in a masculine manner.
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