As McCloskey stated about, “Gender is not in every way natural”? this statement to me is not a contradiction of her identity, her decision was more as a free to be me, than an identity. Now if McCloskey stated that she felt that her feminine way was the decision in her identity then yes, I would say then she was contradicting herself.
McCloskey’s Christianity seems also a part of the freedom that she was wanting, that for as much as her living as a male she wanted to be forgiven for whom she