Commentary
If the topic wasn’t so serious, I might be laughing about the federal government’s statement of defence to a Charter challenge against one of its policies. The statement responds to the advocacy group Canadian Women’s Sex Based Rights (CAWSBAR), which is challenging the policy of allowing men who identify as women to transfer into federal women’s prisons.
Once upon a time, the only men who were eligible to transfer into a women’s prison were those who had their male genitalia surgically removed. After Parliament passed Bill C-16 to add “gender identity” and “gender expression” to the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code, federal policy changed….