Lawyers in Federal Court in Halifax on Tuesday debated the case of a transgender female inmate who wants to be moved to a female facility. At issue: Whether Amanda Joy Cooper, 58, can be transferred from Ontario’s Millhaven Institution, where Cooper is currently imprisoned, to a women’s prison in British Columbia, until a larger judicial review is settled. Cooper has been incarcerated since 2001 and holds a dangerous offender designation, Correctional Service Canada (CSC) confirmed to National Post. Cooper is currently incarcerated at Millhaven Institution, a men’s maximum security prison located west of Kingston, Ont. She has the physical form of a female and the gender of a woman.
