Right-wing assholes and their language aside, surely a men’s prison would have both genuine transgender women and also “transgender women” who are genuinely men who will say anything to get access to female inmates. The genuine transgender women need to be moved to a woman’s prison for their own safety. But false (“transgender women”) need to stay in the men’s prison for the safety of female inmates.

How is that distinction made? I hope the trans rights defenders would not argue for simply trusting prisoners’ declarations. Surely that would be a recipe for disaster. Do sex offenders lose their privilege to declare their own gender? Or would they decide based on the gender of sex offenders’ victims?