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ELI5: when a transgender person is put in a gender specific institution such as prison, how is it determined which facility is appropriate?
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They assign them according to birth sex.  No matter how long they have identified as the other.  If they have had surgery they assign them according to their reassigned sex.  Ones that have not has surgery are at high risk in prisons so they are generally "administratively segregated" from the general population.   And it really depends on what prison system they go to.  Some are even allowed to continue hormone therapy.