Making Up Transgender Prisoners in Ontario: An Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: In Ontario, Canada the number of transgender prisoners is unknown. However, advocates suggest that transgender individuals are a growing population within carceral spaces. This thesis provides an Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis (IBPA) of the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services’ (MCSCS) transgender management policies. I explore the gendered and racialized ways in which the MCSCS constructs, manages, and makes up transgender prisoners in Ontario carceral spaces. By examining Ontario correctional policy, I conclude that transgender prisoners in Ontario are made up by various conflicting policy characterizations that position them as simultaneously at-risk and risky. These characterizations support the MCSCS’ broader effort to (re)frame incarceration as a caring, inclusive practice, making it easier and supposedly safer to incarcerate transgender individuals. By emphasising risk and vulnerability, these MCSCS policies fail to challenge broader cultural constructions of transgender prisoners as always-already deceptive, thereby entrenching the carceral system as a vital instrument of crime control without considering viable alternatives, including decarceration.
Source: University of Ottawa - Library
DOI: 10.20381/ruor-30481
Author: Snow, Jaime
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6907303232
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