The Telegraph (article in link not paywalled as from Yahoo) gets round the problem by using "Sunter" rather than "she".
Trans woman called ‘she’ in sex offence court hearing
... Statistics show that almost two-thirds of transgender prisoners who identify as female are convicted sex offenders. ...
New rules mean that trans prisoners who identify as women but have male genitalia or those convicted of violent sexual offences cannot be held in female jails unless there are exceptional circumstances. ...
I wonder if some male sex offenders claim to be women in an attempt to get more lenient treatment or get into women's prisons, though this one seems to have targeted men.