 For example, transgender inmates are much more likely to be sexually assaulted than their cisgender counterparts.Allegedly to protect against this kind of thing, transgender offenders are often put into solitary confinement.Transgender women are sometimes put in male prisons and then separated from the general prison population and put in “protective custody,” which functions in the same ways as solitary confinement, and in fact transgender inmates are sometimes put into segregation facilities that have worse conditions than the ones that cisgender inmates are in.