It is entirely the responsibility of the member to self-identify if they are a survivor of MST and require support. Like you said, it's not a gendered issue. I just had a situation where I travelled out of town to help a male survivor who suffered an incident in 1987 to finally put in a claim for it and finally start to get some help. That person has been suffering with PTSD since that time and although, from many viewpoints, he's been quite successful professionally, he recognizes that he's been struggling. It's only now that he's coming through this that he's finally able to say that it had been scarring him the whole way along.
The male survivors I've worked with have issues around the question of their own gender identity at that point sometimes. They struggle a lot with that as a result of what happened. There are a lot of other pieces that come into play, especially when you're talking about the “old guard”, the biases and everything else that existed back then. It's very difficult for them to come forward.
When you talk about supports for homeless people, a lot of those are built around the male population. When you talk about support for people who have suffered sexual trauma, by and large the support is built around the female victim because, as we know, it's often biased that way, even though there are a lot of men out there who are suffering in silence and people who identify as male who are suffering in silence. They don't know where to turn.