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[–]MarkTwainiac 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You pointed up one of the major difficulties here by mentioning that prisons have different security levels. A lot of males who ID as trans are categorized as convicts who require a maximum security prison - a category that in many countries doesn't exist for female inmates, or if it does, the number of facilities and beds are very limited - or even a super-max prison, a category for violent offenders that in most of the world only exists in the male estate.

What's more, a large number of TIM convicts require not just max or super max security, they require speciality prisons for dangerous sex offenders specifically.

In England and Wales, for example, it was found in 2018 that whereas 19% of all male prisoners are doing time for sex crimes, nearly half the (48%) of TIMs in prison are convicted sex offenders - and male sex offenders in E & W are typically placed in separate specialist prisons.

In most countries, there is no way correctional systems built for female convicts can possibly deal with and accommodate TIM prisoners like Andrew Burns, now Tiffany Scott, branded one of the most dangerous inmates in Scotland's male prison system:

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/1492364/transgender-prisoner-tiffany-scott-andrew-burns-dangerous-sheriff/

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/3316509/transgender-prisoner-tiffany-scott-riot/

https://www.womenarehuman.com/non-transitioning-male-transgender-inmate-demands-female-prison-guards-perform-strip-search/

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/transgender-prisoner-branded-one-scotlands-11837767