So many males are vulnerable to male violence, in prison or in places like toilets.
Gay males, small males, elderly males, physically disabled males, nueroatypical males, e.g.
I fail to see why one group of males at risk of male violence is privileged over another group of males similarly at risk. Why must that one group’s vulnerability be ameliorated to the point of increasing risk to female prisoners, when surely a small neuroatypical male is equally if not more at risk of violence in a prison population.
I say this having one close friend who works inside a male prison and specifically with the population deemed vulnerable, and I have another good friend whose mentally ill son is often arrested on drug charges and petty theft, whose life, the entire court system, knows would be very much in danger in prison were his crimes to escalate — so that much concerted effort is being wielded to keep him out of prison.
Unlike subjective feelings of female identity that cannot be verified, my friend’s son has multiple organic brain disorders falsifiable with neurological testing. But though the courts and the social service system are doing everything they can to help him off the path that will land him in prison, not one person, ever, has offered the possibility that he instead be housed in the female estate.