transphobia, prisoner abuse, and denise abbah’s strange sad case

From Bird of Paradox: an examination of worldwide cases regarding transphobia and prisoner abuse, particularly with regard to the case of Denise Abbah in South Africa.

It’s kind of hard for me to untangle the many levels on which the situations referred to are fucked up, so for my benefit (and, I guess, yours, but probably mostly mine) let me puzzle out the rage:

1) South African prison officials fucked up Denise Abbah’s name, registering it as Denis.
2) Rather than thinking that someone fucked up, they thought that Denise Abbah was a transwoman.
2a) Even when she claimed to be cisgendered. (If she were actually trans, why would she claim to be cisgendered? What would she have to gain?)
2b) Even when a simple medical exam–you know, like the one I’m pretty sure you’re supposed to undergo at some point while you’re in prison–would have proven that Abbah is cisgendered.
3) Denise Abbah, assumed to be a post-op transwoman, was then put into a men’s prison–tacit logic: “because transwomen are not real women”. (This is the clincher in the other cases cited, incidentally.)
4) When Abbah began to menstruate, the prison guards told her that this was “because of the operation”. Because, you know, people bleed after miraculously-healed-up-and-scarless operations all the goddamned time.
4a) Believing that Abbah was bleeding, they did not attempt to provide medical care which, presumably, would have revealed that Abbah was cisgendered.
5) Now the government wants to subject Abbah to further humiliation by having her undergo gender testing to verify her claims, as though the above narrative (and the fact that she has borne five children, which should be readily legally verifiable) is not enough.

In what universe are any of the above things okay?