I feel so angry and sorry for the poor gender fluid/trans identifying female patient who was utterly vulnerable in this situation.
This is not her fault - She's likely to had her dysphoria and identity crisis validated, her unreality and delusions about her gender supported and reified, and been encouraged to think her survival and mental wellbeing depends on the whole world supporting her in this world view. Her gender identity has been recorded and used to inform her care and placement. No other delusion of self identity is given this treatment.
Think about that for a minute - the system disbelieves and will challenge all delusions apart from those related to gender identity/sex. If this patient had expressed a belief she should be an amputee, or had superpowers, was the reincarnation of Cleopatra, the pope, the second coming, a covert spy operative, pregnant with a demon or poisoned by the mafia - any other sign of disordered thinking that is objectively untrue, then this would be taken as an indication that she needs help and yes, challenged. There would be attempts made to keep her and others safe from potentially dangerous actions due to her disordered thinking, and to try and return her to reality, convince her she was unable to walk on water, was not being sent alien messages, or whatever delusion was endangering her. But not if she declares the magic words 'I identify as x gender'
Despite validation this poor woman was clearly mentally unwell enough to need admission to a psychiatric ward - but those treating her were so focused on supporting her self declared gender identity that they ignored the reality of the patients physical body and the risks to her in being placed in a male ward. A system has been created where the insistence that one particular strand of disordered thinking is somehow to be supported as an innate truth and any form of gender self expression framed as a human right, and the staff upheld this.
They literally served a mentally unwell female patient requiring inpatient psychiatric help up to a ward of seriously mentally ill and in this case predatory men, apparently without consideration of vulnerability, safeguarding or even planning and handover that meant staff knew her situation and could care for her adequately - and the predictable sexual assault was nearly immediate. I don't know if these men were equally likely to rape in another situation, or whether their behavior was influenced by their mental illness (acute symptoms, disinhibition) but the outcome and danger to the female patient was predictable.
Despite their serious mental health problems it appears that the men on the ward were not fooled by the double think and mantras (transmen are men) that have numbed the mental health professionals and prevented patient centered thinking that would have prioritized her physical protection over validation.
Its another example of how gender identity policies only really service male wants. Its also interesting that there are never any calls for mentally ill men to ' be kind' and accept their female bodied 'brothers' without exception.