Nah. She’s saying that because journalists have apparently been doggedly using trans-inclusive language, women have been confused out of getting cervical screenings. She’s not shown her working though, as a fantasy writer she never was good at world-building.
The “this” is doing double-duty, it refers to both the “falsehoods” and the consequences of disseminating them (lower cancer screening uptake). She is recycling what her pal Suzanne Moore said when she claimed Roe v Wade was overturned because people couldn’t define “woman” anymore.
As perverse as it is to appeal to the reading comprehension of transphobes, if you look at the replies to the tweet (not reposting them here) it’s pretty clear that the inference most of us are drawing is the one she intended.
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She thinks the number is wrong. I think? 🤷‍♂️
So yeah, I stand by my reading.