Saw this on imgur: "If Theo identifies as a male will he claim that in front of the court or will he claim the he should be tried as a woman since he was born one? Statistically for assault and theft males are more likely to go to prison compared to women."

http://imgur.com/gallery/N9ygl

The last paragraph from the post:

Male of Female? The birth name of this person is Valerie William and he now lives as a female to male person called Theo. Since now if the charges reached court the gender of the person has to be taken into account. Because if Theo here is found guilty he (she) will have to go to prison. However there are male prisons and female prisons, there aren't really trans prisons yet. So the question of the day is this - if Theo identifies as a male will he claim that in front of the court or will he claim the he should be tried as a woman since he was born one? Statistically for assault and theft males are more likely to go to prison compared to women. So if he says that he is a male and demands to be identified as one Theo will most likely go to a male prison - which i'm sorry to say will be horrible for him. Or will he say that he is female and should be tried as one - despite the fact that he was on the protest demanding to be respected as a male. Basically will he actually keep his words or will he take the easy way out? What do you guys think?

I found it pretty disgusting that the probability of sentencing is higher if this person identifies as a male rather than a female. I get that the post was trying to somehow make an issue of transgenders choosing a gender as they feel is convenient, but there is a much bigger question here that isn't being addressed: Why is one able to gain convenience (at least in terms of punishment) by choosing to be identified as a female vs a male?