The meat of the article:

So, when people use the word “woman”, it’s important to distinguish between “adult human female” and the perception of an adult human female. Almost all the time, those two categories are the same, but the distinction is crucial to understanding the rows like the one over the intersex boxers and passionate debate over what it means to be trans and how trans people should be accommodated in society.

The author is trans, does that affect how they view things and how the article was written? Should it matter?