Though department orders updated in 2016 prohibit searches to determine gender, Mulligan said it still happens. “Whatever the root cause is, yes, I see people being groped in that way, even when they say they have an ID,” she said. “I’ve heard of it happening when trans people said they had no ID, so police in some of these situations start asking questions about genitalia. When trans people refuse to answer those questions, they go in forcefully.”