Should a man identifying as a female be allowed to go to a female prison?

The governor of California Governor Gavin Newsom sign a law so you can go into a female prison if you identify as a female, you don't even have to be a transgender. I can see many male sex offenders taking advantage of this law.

September 26, 2020: California Governor Gavin Newsom signs S. B. 132, which requires state prisons to house inmates based on their stated gender identity, with a few exceptions. The law also mandates that corrections officers use inmates’ preferred pronouns when interacting with transgender prisoners.

April 6, 2021: According to the California corrections department, in the six months since S. B. 132 was enacted, “1,129 inmates have self-identified as transgender, non-binary and intersex.” The overwhelming majority are biological men who identify as transgender women, requesting to be housed in women’s facilities.

November 21, 2021: A women’s advocacy group sues the state of California to overturn S. B. 132, with two plaintiffs claiming they had been sexually assaulted by trans or non-binary inmates in women’s facilities.

January 20, 2022: New York Governor Kathy Hochul announces a policy initiative that would allow prisoners in the state to be housed “with persons of the gender that is consistent with such person’s gender identity.”

March 31, 2022: NBC News reports there are 4,890 transgender people incarcerated in state prisons across the country, and that just 15 are housed in facilities that match their gender identity.

April 14, 2022: After New Jersey enacts a policy requiring the state to house inmates based on gender identity, the New York Post reports two prisoners in a state women’s facility are pregnant as the result of “consensual sexual relationships” with a transgender inmate.

April 20, 2022: An Illinois federal judge orders the U. S. Bureau of Prisons to provide gender-affirming surgery to a prisoner incarcerated in a Florida.

Should a man identifying as a female be allowed to go to a female prison?
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