There is currently lots of talk from politicians and pundits about listening to women when they complain about flashers and the need for police to take flashing seriously, so that more women feel able to report flashers.
But of course that is not possible when self-id means any man can simply claim he's naked in a women's space because he identifies as a woman. And self-id laws mean women run the risk of being prosecuted if they complain about flashers.
There was a two-year legal battle in Norway because of this. (Norway introduced a self-id law in 2016, without a public debate or informing the public what it meant.)
A woman in a sports centre went to management because in the open-plan women's showers was a man showering naked. He says he's legally female. Management assured her as an intact male he still shouldn't be there.
The next time she went, again she encounters this man. She considers whether to go back to management but decided to tell him first that while he was welcome to use the women's changing rooms, he shouldn't be showering naked with the women. They go together to management where she complained again.
He then goes to the police and files a complaint against her for harassment and discrimination. It goes to trial. She's found guilty of harassment and discrimination for objecting to the presence of a fully intact male in the open-plan women's showers.
The woman appealed the judgement and won at tribunal, with a narrow margin. The judges strongly criticised politicians for passing a badly thought out law without considering the consequences for all.
A translation of the judgement is here:
womenwhosayno.blogspot.com/2018/10/norway-woman-is-accused-of-harassment.html?m=1
(A similar case in the Netherlands however was lost by the woman complaining about a naked man. The judgement said something along the lines of times have changed, women have to get over it. Unfortunately, I can't find the reference for that one right now.)
It's also remarkable how many of these incidents there are now. The convicted serial sex offender allegedly involved in the WiSpa incident was also reportedly involved in an incident in 2018 in a swimming pool in California (which has a self-id law) and is facing criminal charges for that.
There was also another incident in the same year in California where a group of teenage girls getting changed for water polo training complained about a naked man in the open-plan showers in the women's changing room, stating he had scared them and calling him a predator. The coaches reported the incident, police investigated but concluded no crime had occurred because the person in question identified as a woman and was transitioning. From that point onwards the girls only used the changing rooms under supervision.
Whether that's one and the same person or two separate flashers, it shows that getting caught will not deter a flasher in this situation, precisely because self-id allows him to be there, and there is no longer a deterrent in law.