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Please keep the following so you can use it when the topic of how "safe'" it is to put TIMs in women's prisons comes up.

This information is especially useful for when you call politicians' offices to tell them NO to men in women's prisons. These are American stats.

This is from a journal, PRISON HEALTH, June 2018 and I found it on the US government's website! Reisner is a trans advocate.

Prison Health June 2018 Creating, Reinforcing, and Resisting the Gender Binary: A Qualitative Study of Transgender Women’s Healthcare Experiences in Sex-Segregated Jails and Prisons Reisner

Lifetime estimates of incarceration range from 19% to 65% among transgender women (Reisner et al., 2014, Garofalo et al., 2006, Clements et al., 1999, Grant et al., 2011), compared to less than 3% of the U.S. general population (Glaze and Kaeble, 2014).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5992494/

US women have an even lower than 3% lifetime incarceration rate - as far as I could gather (but this needs to be checked thoroughly) there are usually only a few hundred thousand women incarcerated in the US at any given time, which should make the female lifetime incarceration rate less than 1%