Dr. William Hébert’s latest article, “Trans Rights as Risks: On the Ambivalent Implementation of Canada’s Groundbreaking Trans Prison Reform” was published in the December 2020 special issue “On the Margins of Trans Legal Change” of the Canadian Journal of Law and Society.
In this paper, Dr. Hébert analyses policy documents and interviews conducted in federal prisons to trace the emergence and early effects of Canada’s recent wave of groundbreaking trans correctional reforms. Dr. Hébert argues that through their implementation, trans correctional reforms reveal that rights and risks are caught in an ambivalent and co-constitutive relationship in Canada’s regime of prison governance. Read Dr. Hébert’s article to learn about how the policies were implemented, and how the correctional administrators, staff and trans prisoners experienced the risks and uncertainties of the reforms.