“Obviously, since surgery hasnt occurred yet, the author meant to say HE, not she. I guess were editorializing in the news again.”
No actually the style book from the press company that shall not be named says you should refer to the transgender person as they gender they present in.
Style book be damned. I know what a pronoun is and what each one means.
Same idiotic style book that doesn't see the sense in an Oxford comma. ;-)