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October Canada The Canadian […]

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1981-10

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October Canada The Canadian Penitentiary Service introduced a new policy to help transsexuals in Canadian federal prisons. It negotiated a contract with the Toronto -based Clarke Institute's Gender Identity Clinic and the Philippe Pinel Institute in Montréal, under which doctors assessed, three inmates at a time, their need for therapy and hormone treatments. At that time there were fourteen transsexuals in Canadian federal prisons.

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MontrealTorontoCanada

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Clarke Institute for Psychiatry, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

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Jane Taber, "Prison Transsexuals Get Help," Ottawa Citizen, 3 November 1981, pp. 1, 16.