As in, a man getting strip-searched by a man? I can't imagine she'd be worried over that. These guys have spent so long trying to obfuscate the difference between the sexes they've completely forgotten the rest of us aren't confused at all. They try to use "Aha but what if a demi-aro-ace-trans-masc-soft-babygirl-uwu need to use the bathroom?" as some kind of smackdown gotcha when the answer is "Yeah send the pooner to the ladies' room" or whatever.
I think they just mean a mannish woman getting strip-searched by male officers because they mistook her for a man. They have constructed all these bizarre scenarios, especially with regards to toilets but this is about public transport.
It's the second one. They've become so complacent after years of Pritzger-Rothblatt money that they can't even hide how fucking excited they are that they can publicly recite their personal wank material to the entire world so long as its disguised as an outraged post detailing their oppression as super-extra-oppressed "women".
The reason this doesn't happen and has never happened is because manly looking women know that all you need to do is say something (literally anything, doesn't even have to be "I'm not a man, I'm just ugly") and your voice will make it clear that you're a woman.
I tried to reread A Series of Unfortunate Events for nostalgia and those books are for children, undeniably so. Harry Potter can be read by all ages (technically) because it uses age neutral prose. Most children's series are an embarrassment to read if you're older than 13.
The "they want to check your genitals" argument is a pure scare tactic because most people make no effort to hide what's in their pants. It's why they're so adamant that genitals don't determine gender because that kills the arguement.
With the plot, you could almost mistake it for being a YA book (and let's not pretend kids would even be interested). The fact that the writing style seems juvenile is a serious underestimation of its demographic.
There will be no need to check genitals for most people, and the only ones who will push it to the point where they need to have their genitals inspected would be fetishists who want that to happen
I have the first and last books of both series here for comparison. I misremembered how the prose went. It isn't that different from Harry Potter but I think my thoughts were that it's a little too childish given the plot. Maybe it's different because of the cultural impact Harry Potter has. But this reader's guide website backs my opinion. ASOUE is marked as 4-7 interest level with a V reading level while Harry Potter has a 4-12 interest level and a V-Z reading level.
He definitely wasn't a communist, more of a feelgood liberal that was the perfect figurehead for wholesale neoliberal plundering in the 90s. He still had plenty of spite though like when he learned that the literature Nobel prize for 1984 would go to a Czech writer and he spent his trip to Western Europe lobbying against it being Kundera, since Kundera liked the Prague Spring.
The Czech situation is more 'regime in crisis doubles down on demonizing the previous regime to take attention away from its failings' than 'everyone going through the motions to pretend everything's like it should be'. Though it still means renaming places to be named after 'good' Russians that have fuck-all to with them instead of being named after 'bad' Russians and pretending that the 90s weren't hugely destructive.
I haven't read ASoUE since before I was a teenager, but I recall it has a specific attribute which IMO makes it impossible to read as an adult book: this third person narrator speaking in a conversational tone to the reader, explaining what things are. It was fine (and possibly needed) for a young audience, but which would be jarring and maybe even belittling to an adult reader.
"Are those Gen zers or whatever the fuck they call themselves gonna love it if we put some nigger into this... what was it called again, Chet?"
He is not going to sacrifice millions of dollars for random troons online.