It's another example of inverting the power dynamic, of DARVO scaled up to societal scale. The vulnerable minority at higher risk of being assaulted and brutalized cast as the threat to the state actor with power over them in this very situation.
In the High Court today for a challenge by Sex Matters to police strip search guidance. They say even if female officers consent, strip searches of trans women have to be done by male officers.
Part of their submitted evidence is a "table of trans-identifying males who have committed sex crimes".
