FlattestWhite
You are right to question where this is coming from.
And it would appear several places at once. For instance, if you search on here for the Denton report, it describes how the whole narrative was deliberately put forward, and done by stealth in order not to draw attention.
And then there is the loud, public narrative of oppression, and how women are really oppressing men and not the other way round.
On the thread in FWR on this same subject, a poster was talking about how activists for the Scottish legislation wanted it to say gender instead of sex when it came to how you can specify your HCP if you've been raped. Obviously gender is meaningless in that context. Whereas sex is explicit.
The poster notes:
During the #SixWords campaign, I got into a few arguments online with young women who were against the amendment. They all kept parrotting that rape victims shouldn't "punch down" by asking for a female doctor to do the medical examination.
These are young woman who would, no doubt, consider themselves progressive, but with the ingrained belief that raped women can oppress the man who is sent to examine them.
It's quite mind-boggling that we have come to this.