Nah she was a immersive journalist, basically someone who pretends to be something else in order to experience how it's really like living in other people's shoes. Kinda like pretending to be a prisoner just to see how prisoners live.Did she want to be a man as well or something?
Her experience living as a man caused her to develop severe depression that she never recovered from. She went in believing she'd had an advantage because she thought she understood what women wanted in a man, instead she found out that men are viewed as worthless. Really puts things in perspective, men are more likely to suffer from depression and are 4 times more likely to commit suicide.
R.I.P. to her