Of course when a conservative makes a boneheaded comment about “legitimate rape” the MSM goes ballistic.

Via Raw Story:

Chelsea Manning, formerly Bradley Manning, will likely fare well in prison because “true rape” is mostly a myth, according to a column published by The Daily Beast on Thursday.

Manning was sentenced to 35 years for leaking U.S. secret documents on Wednesday. She is expected to serve her time at the Fort Leavenworth military base in Kansas.

In a column published by The Daily Beast on Thursday, author Mansfield Frazier said Manning was likely to be “treated quite well” based on his own experiences in prison. He said the popular image of widespread prison rape was untrue.

Though Frazier admitted federal reports showed more than a third of transgender former inmates were sexually assaulted in prison, he claimed this statistic wasn’t measuring incidents of “true rape.” Inmates who were closeted often falsely said they were raped to hide their sexuality, he claimed. Frazier said closeted homosexuals were “one reason for high recidivism rates.” […]

Nearly one in 10 prisoners report having been raped or sexually assaulted by other inmates, staff or both, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Inmates who identify as gay or bisexual are particularly vulnerable. More than one-third of gay and bisexual male inmates said that they were victimized in prison.