First detained transgender transferred to a penitentiary for women

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Saturday, 22 July, 2017 17:39

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Correctional Service Canada has approved for the first time in its history, the transfer of an inmate who is transgender based on their gender identity and not exclusively on his physical anatomy as was always the case, reported CBC.

Sentenced to a sentence of life in prison, Fallon Aubee is held at the federal penitentiary in the city of Mission, east of Vancouver, British Columbia. This institution for men account 324 cells. She had asked to be transferred to a penitentiary for women, a request that was eventually approved by the authorities. It will end as soon as Tuesday at the Fraser Valley Institution for Women in Abbotsford, just on the other side of the Fraser river, in the same province.

According to what she told the CBC, Fallon Aubee will be able, with this change of environment, to focus more on his future and less on her own problems, she who lives as a woman among hundreds of men.

“I believe that this will be a huge adjustment to go to a prison for women, not only for me but also for the women who are there because I have not yet been made, so there is a stigma that is attached to “there’s a guy who lives here,” she recounted in a telephone conversation with a journalist from CBC.

Fallon Aubee account to make its place among the other prisoners due to his character, his attitude, and his generosity, she said. She also wants to support other prisoners who are, like her, in the process of sex change.

In January, the canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau was committed to ensuring that transgendered prisoners can serve their sentences in a prison, respecting their gender identity. In the aftermath of the stance taken by the liberal leader, the correctional Service of Canada had indicated that it now considers on a case-by-case basis transfer requests from transgendered prisoners. The federal agency announced as well that it would no longer rely solely on the physical anatomy to determine which prison an inmate would be sent. He indicated that it does not expect more than a owned or operated before allowing the transfer.