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I didn't "shout" (denoted by capitalisation) and nor did I use the phrase TERF. I I think there are enough RF's making women look bad without creating more unnecessary acronyms.
I'll happily answer your questions though; it'll while away a boring train ride.
Why don't you think it's a problem?
Because prisoners are separated by category.
I think there are legitimate but simplistic comparisons between homosexuals and trans people. We need to differentiate prisons and by category of prisoner seems fine to me. Otherwise, do you segregate into MTF, FTM, gay male, gay female, straight male and straight female? You then have Cat A, B etc subdivisions. That seems like a lot of prisons and prisons cost money.
Sex offenders are kept in their own wing with huge amount of supervision. As a RF, you may want to protest about women going to prison because of disadvantaged backgrounds (it isn't their fault - men made them do it) but most prisoners of all types come from disadvantaged backgrounds. If you do something bad enough to end up in a scary Cat A prison then I care much, much, much less about you than most other people. I would rather not spend all that money on the NHS or other deserving causes.
Why do you think that somebody who is in prison for sexual offences and has a male body (including a penis) should be in prison with women?
Why not? To be in the same place, the woman will have done something pretty horrific. The article lists excuses for the women in prison. Men often have the same excuses. I worked in forensic IT and have been an expert witness as well as uncovering very frightening evidence of sex offenders' crimes. Women are often complicit in these crimes. They are as disgusting as the men. If some of the women I have had contact with spend the rest of their lives sleeping with one eye open then it seems a little like poetic justice.
It seems to me that you can theoretically divide these MTF's into rapists and not - as the anti-trans arguements seem to be about women being in danger. Someone imprisoned for fraud is as unlikely to be a rapist as any other man so we can disregard them. You may not like having them in your 'female space' but hey, don't go to prison and you can spend your time complaining about an elderly gent with his wife in an M&S changing room.
Then there are those who do pose a threat. They are in prisons with a lot of supervision and with equally nasty people. The supervision does a good (if not perfect job).
You may want to argue that men are statistically more likely to x, y, x, but so are black people. Shouldn't we segregate prisons by race? Is big, butch, lesbian Hilda encroaching on a female space? She can't rape due to the misandrist laws, but she could do some terrible things to her cell mate.
I think we have solutions already. I don't think the only difference between men and women is reproductive organs. I think it goes deeper than that and I think it's amazing watching people tie themselves in knots talking about the pay-gap myth whilst arguing for women's spaces and how violent men are. Because I believe in difference between men and women (within a massive range), I don't think that being trans is a mental illness. I think there are men and women and you can have the wrong 'person' in the wrong body and therefore trans is 'a thing'. I think tallking about men as a dangerous other species divides and creates issues. My brother was gay when it was illegal in England and I see huge parallels between fear of gays and fear of trans men now.
I think RF (or modern feminism) is tying itself up in knots, trying to pretend it isn't against men yet showing it is at every juncture.
Excuse my post if it's a bit rambly. I've been taking work calls in between typing and trying to write long posts on a stupid iPhone is tough going!