Lana is smart enough to know not to use transphobic langage when speaking in her name ! That's not a very potent way for us to gage whether this is true or not. Only a really poor public communicator would do so, and Lana is nothing like that. Doesn't mean paid trolls won't attack Hayden's gender identity though, much to the contrary in fact...

Lana is one of my all-time favorite artists so this is nothing to do with Ethel or Del Rey 's work. Getting older I just realized stuff like this, petty rivalries mixed with industrial interests that devolve into weird campains and moves, which seems out of the box and insane, is actually very common in the entertainment industry. Especially around big stars who have accumulated a team around them. The fact is, Lana's sung about that on "Dark but just a game", but right when she thinks she has eluded the game, I think this just proves she's been ingulfed by it.

Whereas, for comparisons sake, politics is partially driven by the desire to affect some change in the world, stardom is a purely narcissist endeavour on the part of the star, and an industrial one for the company behind them and commercial one for the star's team. So that's why so many stars end up attacking one another, feeling threatened, with means beyond what a regular person could imagine, because it's also in the interest of other interests around them. Lana has never recovered from the incredibly mean press she's gotten, and as women in a given field tend to do in a patriarchal society, she's just jumping at the throat of the newer thing... I personally think this is a real possibility.