[tsimionescu]

Using "males" and "females" here is irrelevant and actively seeking to confuse.

People typically consider that women (cis or trans) have a right to be housed together, and separately from cismen.

If anything, the biggest problem of policy are trans-men, who would likely feel much more concerned by being housed with cis-man prisoners, but who would also make women uncomfortable.

[ryan93]

The desire of women not to be housed with men has nothing to do with the interior gender experience of the male in question.

[tsimionescu]

Sure, but it also has nothing to do with their chromosome structure. It has a lot to do with their gender expression, in the end.