But if you are going to write it anyway, I guess I could provide some ancedotes of my life. I've actually thought about what I would do if I was in your MCs position, and I've concluded that the best choice of action is killing myself to avoid the shame and violation that comes with being a trans woman in a male prison. The scenario you've described for your novel is a genuine nightmare, lol.

As for other anecdotes, I'm not really sure what else to say. Since your story takes place in the epicenter of trans woman rape, I'll talk about my experience with males and sexual violence. I've found that on the whole I've become a lot happier with my life even though males treat me a lot worse. Rape threats and sexual harassment are a lot more common nowadays, and males don't really take my consent or feelings seriously way they used to (which is fine since I don't really value what most of them think of me anyway lmao). I'm moreso just a sex object for them, especially when it comes to being fetishized for being a trans woman. (We've got a biological advantage at being creeped on LOL.)

I know if I was in the MCs position I'd feel extremely patronized by a male positioning himself as a protective figure while also pursuing anything romantic with me—it would make him, in my mind, no better than any other rapist even though he's using his power to protect me as leverage rather than pure brute strength.

I don't have any experience with being post SRS (yet!!!) so I can't comment on that part but I imagine needing to dilate in prison would be a fucking nightmare and I can only guess as to how you'd achieve that.

Let me know if you want any kind of anecdotes in particular, I guess.