Mick Hartley

It keeps happening. Canada, this time:

A dangerous male offender serving time for sexual violence against a minor has been transferred to a women’s prison after identifying as transgender.

Carissa Marie Radcliffe, previously known as Frederick Radcliffe, was transferred from the Bath Institution, a federal institution which houses male inmates, to the Grand Valley Institution for Women approximately two months ago.

He raped a 13-year-old girl in Ottawa, and has been declared a Dangerous Offender.

Court records show that Radcliffe has an extensive criminal history dating back decades. While Radcliffe has been convicted of non-violent crimes such as theft, criminal harassment, and criminal misconduct, the majority of his crimes were distinctly sexual.

From 1989 to 1990, he was convicted for multiple indecent acts that involved exposing his penis to female victims while masturbating. One victim was 15 years old.

The next year, he was convicted of sexual assault on a 19-year-old female victim, followed by a 1992 conviction for three counts of sexual interference and one count of sexual assault on a 13-year-old girl.

Radcliffe received another charge for indecent exposure in 1993 and two more indecent exposure convictions in 1998. During the second incident in 1998, he followed his 17-year-old female victim to her vehicle after exposing himself.

In 2009, Radcliffe was found guilty of sexual assault on a person under the age of fourteen….

No existing court records provide any information indicating Radcliffe had previously experienced gender identity issues, and all historical media coverage of his crimes refer to him as a male. Despite this, Radcliffe has reportedly undergone a vaginoplasty and was transferred to the Grand Valley Institution (GVI) for Women within the last two months.

Speaking to Reduxx, Heather Mason said that the Correctional Service Canada “wouldn’t let [Radcliffe] transfer until he had surgery. So he has had surgery and is now at GVI.”…

Mason tells Reduxx that Radcliffe still “looks like a man” to the female inmates, and expresses concern over the Correctional Service of Canada’s (CSC) strategies.

“So what it seems like CSC is doing is that they are castrating all the pedophiles and rapists and sending them to women’s prisons,” she says.

Canada has long had a policy of housing federal prisoners based on “gender identity” rather than biological sex, though all known transfer requests have been from males. Prior to 2017, male inmates who sought transfer had to undergo “sex reassignment surgery” before a transfer would be approved, but that prerequisite has since been dropped after a promise was made by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Well hey, that's progress.