Is Tulsi Gabbard preparing to enter the Republican Party?

For the past several months it has become increasingly evident that former congress woman, and progressive darling, Tulsi Gabbard, is shifting decidedly to the right. She showed this definitively with the last two bills she introduced. One excluding non-biological females in women's sports, and another protecting fetuses from abortion after they can feel pain. Are these moves part of a long term strategy to switch to the Republican Party? Or is this merely a principled political figure standing by her word? Only time will tell, but both show why so many on the right and left consider her to be "their lady".