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Firstly, I have to point out an important disanalogy in that making a wig look natural is much easier than making a man look like a woman.
Secondly, I have to stop and ask if this actually happened. With a quick search, I could not find any laws mandating that trans people must disclose their transness to avoid rape charges.
But continuing on, you seem to have tortured the analogy and stretched it beyond its limits to fit trans people. These arguments would be silly about wigs, if we were talking about wigs in our world, but then you introduced to this hypothetical world a social stigma against wearing wigs. And if there was a social stigma against wearing wigs, in the same way that trans people (claim to) face social stigma, I would expect the same social dynamics to apply. People would want wig-wearers to feel protected, so they would enact social norms where wig-snatching is prohibited, even when it's really obvious that someone is wearing a wig. So that is why...
...assuming these reports are accurate, they are perfectly explainable by the above social norm. If obvious wig-wearers are stared at or insulted in public, that's because they're in a space where that norm is lacking. If they get treated like they have natural hair, that's just the norm being upheld.
People are not a monolith. Different social norms apply in different places. Just because a trans person would be immediately outed if they walked into an evil alt-right Nazi bar doesn't mean that they would be outed if the same exact trans person walked into a gay bar in San Francisco.
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