This is deliberate misrepresentation of the statistics.
As explained well here https://medium.com/@commiebisexual/are-trans-women-rapists-6400df2bed7a
We take the same statistics as above, but instead of comparing them with inmates, we compare them with the total population:
76 sex offenders out of 131000 trans women = 0.058%
125 sex offenders out of 33665000 women= 0.00037%
13234 sex offenders out of 33665000 men= 0.039%
This paints a radically different picture. Trans women seem to be a group susceptible to committing rapes, but nearly not 3.5 times more than cis men do, as the previous data led us to believe.
This data still obscures that 74 out of the 76 trans women sex offenders were legally male. What this means is that these women were imprisoned early in their transition. In other words, they have spent much more time presenting as men than women. I have no data to back up this claim — which is why it would be interesting to investigate this with a study — but it seems that very few rapists were trans women at the time of their crime. Instead, it seems, a trans-woman-to-be is as likely to be a rapist as any cis man.
Why do I defend this hypothesis? The reasons are four-fold:
Isla Bryson herself raped two women before her transition and none after.
Trans women are three times more likely than cis women to be victims of rape in their lifetime (47% against 17%). To put this number into perspective, per convicted trans woman rapist, 810 trans women have been raped. The looming fear over trans people's heads that they may, one day or another, be raped makes them much more conscious of women's issues and supportive of feminism and their fight against rape culture. I do not know any trans woman opposed to even the most radical branches of the fight against the rape of cis women.
Trans women have generally overcome patriarchy once they decide to transition. Transitioning is so subversive that to begin such an enterprise, one has to dissect maleness and reject it.
Trans women are depicted as being rapists, hence, we are more likely to believe a victim of sexual violence if she denounces a trans woman. This is similar to what happens to Black men in the US. This is namely the problem of the discrepancy between the perpetrators and those convicted. You are more likely to be convicted if you are poor or generally the victim of stigma. So, rich white straight rapists can afford not to fear the law, whereas minorities cannot.
Additionally tansgender individuals are more likely than any other group, including women, to be the victims of violent crime and are often targets of hate crime. They are vulnerable and deserve protection which would be afforded by a trans wing in prison but certainly wouldn't be afforded by just throwing them in a mens prison to appease the people continually repeating a trans woman is a man. End of.
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/ncvs-trans-press-release/
Trans people are statistically proven to be more vulnerable and are not inherent predators. The narrative that they are is unpleasant.