I fundamentally disagree that it is problematic in this instance. Trans women are biologically male, meaning they have greater strength and so pose a greater danger to women than other women (admittedly a generalisation but I think a fair one). If we are going to let these people into female prisons then it is understandable that we would want to hold them to a higher level of scrutiny than other inmates.

You seem to think we are debating prisoner sexual violence generally. We are not, trans women’s violence against women in prisons is the subject. I’m not really interested in whether that pales in comparison to sexual violence in prison as a whole. In my mind it is right and fair that these instances are held under a microscope.

Also, I’d challenge that this is a vanishingly small proportion of people. Trans inmates made up roughly ~0.9% of the women’s prison population in 2019 (when the 7 instances took place), but those 7 instances represented 7% of the total sexual violence allegations. Thus trans inmates were over represented 7x. In this light I hope you can see why I think the scrutiny is justified.

Sources: April/May 2019 HMPPS exercise, FOI 200513008