Transgender campaigners laud Canada prison initiative six months on

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/03/transexual-rights-prisons-idUSL5N1125AX20150903

Reuters/By Chris Arsenault      09/03/2015

"TORONTO, Sept 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than 40 transgender prisoners in Canada's largest province have been jailed according to their chosen identity, rather than their physical attributes, as part of a program hailed by human rights activists, Ontario's corrections minister said.

"Inmates are treated based on their own self-identification," Yasir Naqvi, Ontario's minister of corrections and community safety, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

"If they identify as female they would be held in a female prison."