I fully realize the concerns with most LGBT+ people. I have two friends that are trans. However, I am concerned that a man might say he wants to be trans so he can serve his time in a women prison allowing him to have access to all those women. I cannot think of a worse condition for any of the women in the prison.

Someone needs to explain that transition isn't a witness relocation scam anymore then carpel tunnel syndrome is a health insurance scam. I didn't know either of these facts until I was diagnosed with carpel tunnel and later when I realized I was trans.
I suspect this person is just trying to not serve the time the courts could give them.
I know of another case where someone suspected of murder transitioned to avoid detection, but the story ends well they got caught anyway, so now they'll spend the rest of their life in prison without the "male" parts they were probably listening to when they committed murder.
I have zero sympathy, they can find "sympathy" in the same place right-wingers find sympathy, in the dictionary between "shit" and "syphilis".