Stella Doves🦖 🇬🇧 💚🤍💜

I want to take a moment to acknowledge the plight of the incarcerated women in Canada’s federal prison system. These women are locked up with some of the worst men in the country, most of whom are fully intact. These women have been abandoned by Canadian authorities, who would rather coddle monsters. 94% of trans-identifying inmates in Canada’s federal system only began identifying as transgender after they realized they were going to prison, but they got their female cellmates nonetheless. The Canadian government has shrugged off the inevitable consequences of locking predatory men in cells with incarcerated women, but I don’t want us to forget them, or the cruelties they’re enduring. 90% of the trans-identifying men in Canada’s prisons have committed violent offenses, many of them sex crimes, and 70% of them are serving the kind of sentence that makes additional charges immaterial. Canada has admitted that rapes, physical violence, and sexual assaults are occurring in their federal women’s facilities at the hands of trans-identifying men, but is choosing to do nothing about them: the majority of reported incidents have not led to any sort of charges being filed, or even to internal disciplinary action. These men are allowed to prey on female inmates essentially at will, and as long as they’re reasonably discreet in the abuses they commit, the Canadian prison authorities are willing to turn a blind eye. The officials responsible for placing these men in women’s prisons are committing clear human rights violations. Mixed sex incarceration is a war crime if committed against POWs, and should be treated with the same seriousness domestically. As long as Canada’s female inmates are being locked up with these men, they are being served up on a platter for abuse and intimidation.