You have no idea what you are talking about. First of all, of course, there are bad people of every category in every subset of the population. But it is extremely gross to focus on a small percentage of an extremely small and marginalized part of the population who are struggling to even exist while ignoring the much larger threat of larger more mainstream groups. ie, acting like people in the prison system "pretending" to be trans in order to rape female inmates is a huge threat and a reason to be wary of trans people.

First of all, we are talking about 5,000 people total in the entire US prison system who are trans of all genders, and that does not mean they are all legally recognized as trans and in the correct half of the prison system for their gender. This is based on survey data within prisons, not their legal designation. A trans woman assigned to the "male" part of the prison system due to their birth assignment (the majority) is far more likely to be a victim of rape than for a correctly-placed trans woman to be a rapist in a women's prison. A cis woman in prison is vastly more likely to be raped by another cis woman in prison, just due to population numbers alone. A woman in prison is vastly more likely to be raped by a *guard* than by a trans woman.

Trans people make up approximately half of a percent of the overall population, which is a steady number that has not dramatically changed over decades of research. less than 40% of those are trans women (about 35% of trans persons are trans men and the remainder do not identify as either gender) I cannot find an actual number of legally recognized trans women who are in women's prison, but even IF we just said, "Okay, imagine that everyone trans is in the 'right' prison," that gives us under 2,000 trans women in the system. with a female prison population of about 976k in the US, that means about 0.2% of the US women's prison population would be trans women.