The thought process is: "I'm a factory for laundering Republicans. I take current "issues" fabricated by other Right wing media and "legitimize" them by discussing them with my "university" label, giving them an air of authenticity & gravitas. My sole purpose for existing is to give cover to Right wing talking points and to help Fossil Fuel industry. This is the only real lense to view me through."

The whole trans/cross dressing thing is just another tool to keep "conservatives" on your side. Discuss some current event as bad. Pin "bad" thing to your political opposition. Brainwash sympathetic population with repeated messaging about how dumb and bad "thing" is and that political opposition is the root cause of this issue and their involvement is inauthentic, projecting that their oppositions only reason for involvement is for political gain.