I wouldn't take anything they said seriously. Also I clicked two of those links and found no allegations of rape, just a few ciswomen who didn't want to be around transwomen. I have a suggestion, how about don't commit a crime that sends you to a woman's prison?
See https://4w.pub/male-inmate-charged-with-raping-woman-inside-....
This is the inevitable consequence of SB132, and similar laws elsewhere.
The JD Vance/Peter Thiel/SSC rationalist sphere is such a joke. Just a bunch of pretentious bigots who think they’re better than the “stupid” bigots.
The most effective safeguarding measure against this for female prisoners is the segregation of inmates by sex.
SB132 has demolished this protection for women in Californian prisons and, as the linked articles discuss, we now see the awful and entirely avoidable consequences of this law, within just a few years of it being enacted. Exactly as women's rights advocates made legislators aware would happen in their unfortunately futile efforts to halt SB132 from being passed.
Anyone can file a request, but the request must be approved, and this is based on the totality of the situation with the prisoner. Someone doesn't get to just wake up one day and go "I'm trans" and automatically get approval, this is fearmongering from transphobes.
There's tons of oversight involved and the idea this is some kind of "loophole" for horny cis guys is bigoted nonsense.
You may find this enlightening also: https://womensliberationfront.org/news/wolf-attends-prelimin...
A relevant extract:
"The four witnesses for the prosecution gave detailed accounts of two horrible rapes and the efforts by the alleged perpetrator to dissuade one of the victims from seeking justice, even after she was moved to a new facility for her safety.
"One of the witnesses cited SB132 as the reason why Carroll was being housed in the women’s facility in the first place. He also noted that only males can rape females and that, until these past few years, there were no prisoners physically capable of rape."