A women’s rights organization is seeking permission from the Federal Court to challenge the government’s policy allowing transgender women to be housed in female prisons, arguing that it puts women at risk of harm.

Last week, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) filed a motion for public interest standing on behalf of the group Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights (CAWSBAR).

“The motion seeks the court’s recognition that CAWSBAR is the appropriate party to advance a landmark constitutional challenge to the federal government’s practice of placing trans-identifying (biological) male inmates in women’s prisons,” says a press release from JCCF. “The lawsuit seeks to protect incarcerated women who might not feel safe challenging this policy, given the potential for institutio

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