But female prisoners are now at less risk, because they're no longer being forcibly incarcerated with male prisoners, thanks to this executive order. In federal prisons at least.

That's a good point. A male identifying himself as a woman makes about as much sense as a Polish identifying as a Korean.

My critique was too. Makes no sense to identify with a category you don't actually belong to.

This topic makes me think about identity and who gets to change the definition of it and who doesn't.

I think it is fascinating how the battleground has shifted over time from conflict over objective interaction in the real world to etymology and the internal classification systems people use to model the world.