Ruminations: Placing Women At Risk -- Again

"Correctional Services Canada has a duty to accommodate based on gender identity or expression, regardless of the person's anatomy [i.e. sex] or the gender market on identification documents."
"This includes placing offenders according to their gender identity in a men's or women's institution."
December 2017 Agency commissioner directive to Correctional Service of Canada

"This is a great example of the value of having these community meetings ... because I consider myself to be a fairly strong advocate for LGBTQ2 issues and fairly aware of all the different pressures and this wasn't one that I'd ever thought of [town hall meeting when a 'transgender advocate' complained of 'torture' to house prisoners in facilities not consistent with their declared gender identity]."
Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

"All transfer requests to a different institution type [i.e., men's to women's or vice versa] are assessed on a case-by-case basis and require an Assessment for Decision that includes a security classification review and a transfer recommendation."
Updated 2022 directive to CSC

It became standard practise in 2018's Canada for prison authorities to routinely house transgender females in women's prisons to honour their need to be among women, the gender they identify with. Those born female who are incarcerated are joined by men who have 'transitioned' to female as a routine matter of prison policy, a change from the time when all men were housed in prison facilities meant for men identified by their physical characteristics.

Another country felt it was time that they too respected transwomen's 'rights' to recognition as female and to thus integrate them into female populations in their prison system. First Minister Nichola Sturgeon of Scotland agreed that transgender inmates be transferred to women's prisons. Then lived to regret it when several examples of women's prison transfers resulted in transgender females raping female prisoners.

So: in @Nicola Sturgeon's Scotland, transwomen AREN'T women if they're convicted double rapists, like Adam 'Isla Bryson' Graham. J.K. Rowling, Twitter

The public learned that their government agreed to requests by transwomen found guilty of rape before declaring themselves the opposite gender. Public anger resulted in the government reversing itself, announcing that transgender criminals with 'any history' of violence against women no longer would be transferred from a men's to a women's prison based solely on their gender self-identification.

In Canada, a number of instances have become public where offenders convicted of severe sex crimes were able to obtain transfers to women's prisons, made legal from 2018 forward. In an Ontario prison last year the Grand Valley Institution women's prison welcomed Catherine Lynn who when still a male murdered an upstairs neighbour in 1995 and abused the corpse as a sex partner.

Another, Adam Laboucan, was convicted of sexually assaulting a three-month-old baby, but now identifying as Tara Desousa, effected a transfer from a men's prison to a women's simply by declaring himself female. In the light of public backlash, a clarification of transfer policy was effected directing prison officials to exercise judgement, rejecting a transgender inmate transfer on the basis of previous sex crimes.

This refinement reflecting pure common sense however, was objected to by the Canadian Bar Association, holding it to be transphobic and possibly unconstitutional for prison officials to weigh the issue of biological sex. "In our view [the directive is based on the incorrect assumption that people are fundamentally men or women [or intersex] based on biology at birth"; incredibly as it seems for a professional body at law.

A recent internal report released by the correctional service revealed the presence of 99 "gender diverse offenders" in the Canadian prison system, 18 of whom applied for transfer to another prison that would match their gender identity, the vast majority of whom were transwomen. Tellingly, transgender women inmates were identified as being disproportionately likely to be incarcerated resulting from sexual violence committed while living as their biological sex.

A former inmate at the Grand Valley Institution, Heather Mason, gave her personal view born of experience that the transfer policy resulted in "sexual assaults, physical assaults, harassment and othr issues". But no one seems to be interviewing and listening to the women with respect to their dignity and security; the woke community has infiltrated all professional bodies and government agencies to an excruciating extent belying the intelligence of common sense.