Incarceration and identity
When laydeez are a little dangerous…
A convicted murderer and sex offender from British Columbia, Canada has been denied parole after seeking release from prison shortly after identifying as transgender.
Roger Dale Badour, 73, is currently serving a life sentence for the fatal shooting of a woman in 2011. Badour had been living on the property of Gisele Duckham, 56, at the time of the murder. Following an argument, he fatally shot her, hid her body, and then fled.
At the time, Badour was out on parole and supposed to be living in a halfway house in Victoria, British Columbia on conditions of ceasing contact with women. This condition came after Badour was released into the community from a 7-year prison term for the brutal sexual assault of a pregnant woman.
I guess they weren’t enforcing the “no contact with women” part very well. Or the “live in this halfway house” thing either.
Since identifying as a woman, Badour has already claimed his newfound gender identity has led to him being mistreated on his living unit in a male penetentiary. The question many are asking is whether Badour could potentially be transferred to a women’s prison due to Canadian self-identification laws.
I wonder if Badour self-identifies as not a murderer of women now.
It’s possible the claimed mistreatment involves bullying of some sort, but it is worth remembering that it might also be nothing more than being correctly identified as male. Also, I notice the article makes no effort to afford this person his desired feminine pronouns. I’m guessing TRAs will not be clamouring for this person to be counted among the ranks of trans laydeez, and will let this one slide.
Well, that might make “no contact with women” difficult, if he was housed in a woman’s prison, now wouldn’t it? Unless they put him in solitary confinement, and I suspect there would be a lot of screaming about his rights. Yeah, his rights to rape and murder women. Funny, that wasn’t a right even when I was growing up in a patriarchal, fundamentalist culture.
Correctional Service is fighting a losing rearguard action on this.
Holms – the mistreatment likely has been there all along. He raped a pregnant woman. That sort of crime is the type that doesn’t go over well in the general prison population. As soon as he announced his newfound identity, he would immediately have decided that the reason he was the target of abuse was the new identity.
Seems like poetic justice.