Lawsuit Challenges Policy of Housing Trans-Identifying Men in Women’s Prisons

Lawsuit Challenges Policy of Housing Trans-Identifying Men in Women’s Prisons

A national women’s group has launched a lawsuit against the federal government in a bid to end the practice of housing trans-identifying male prisoners in federal prisons with female inmates. The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) submitted a lawsuit April 7 on behalf of Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights (CAWSBAR) that contests the Correctional Service of Canada commissioner’s Directive 100: Gender diverse offenders policy. The po…

The complexity of the penal and penitentiary system requires questioning the various discourses that underpin it. We analyze the relationship between feminist perspective and punitivism as one of the current gears that the neoliberal system instrumentalizes to stay in power.The entry Anti-Punitivist transfeminism as a short circuit to the culture of punishment was first published in Pikara Magazine.

Putting female inmates in harm's way | Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms

In 2017, Parliament passed Bill C-16, which resulted in trans-identifying inmates with intact male genitalia being allowed to transfer into federal women’s prisons. Canadian women in federal prisons have effectively ceased to be protected, now that the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code recognize “gender identity” and “gender expression” as prohibited grounds of discrimination. Women’s prisons in numerous provinces have since opened…