Perhaps there is more to it than it seems from this thread, but the institution(s?) involved need to be aware and to explain.
One of the researchers specialises in collective narcissism, conspiracy beliefs, collective identity and group behaviour.
They said they weren't researching this and their research field is now broader, but they wouldn't reveal the actual point of the study (as they basically admitted it wasn't actually about "women's experiences" as they had initially claimed once people realised the questions were so odd) and they said you had to PM them to find out the truth (the survey terms being that you had to agree upfront that you understood the purpose of the survey despite having been expressly told we weren't allowed to know the purpose unless we PM them).
If you read the statements as having the built-in assumption that women who believe that sex matters believe trans people are conspiring against them and that it is important to feel part of a feminist community and that feminists feel that women are more important than other people, I can see how it would make sense to someone who isn't a woman and/or hasn't a clue what feminism actually is (and who obviously doesn't believe that women are marginalised by their biology in any way).
I think the reason I found it so insulting was because it was such a crude and insulting caricature of feminism, and to plop it into active discussions about actual women's rights issues was appalling.
I do believe they're the real academics, otherwise it's massive fraud, but these postgrad researchers used the word "uncomfortability" at one point in their posts on their survey thread, which was rather strange.