...Before she was ejected via the same violently spinning revolving door as many appointees to important Government positions in those years who had failed to sufficiently kowtow to and humor that most mercurial Appointer; leaving her female and no longer in the job she'd wished for. Her genie (or whatever it was) was one of the more underhanded and malicious magical wish-granters.
~hugs, Veronica

I assume the only thing that changed was the loss of credentials (and of a tenured Ivy League professorship) that came with her change in identity. But I'll bet she learned a lot about Swamp ecology in the following week.
~hugs, Veronica