BREAKING: Québec Ends Gender Self-ID in Prisons — A Victory for Women’s Safety

Today, Québec is taking a bold and necessary step: ending the practice of allowing inmates to choose their prison placement based on self-declared gender identity. Biology in, self-id in prisons, out.

From this point forward, placement will be based on biological sex — not identity claims, not feelings, not opportunistic declarations.

Screenshot from the article announcing the decision, Le Journal de Québec, French mainstream media.

This is the right move.

When violent male offenders are allowed to identify into women’s prisons, the safety, dignity, and privacy of female inmates are put at risk. This is not hypothetical — this is happening across Canada, the U.S., and beyond. Self-id in prisons allowing men to be held with women ends NOW.

Screenshot from our grand map of non-happenings.

The tragic case of Mohamad Al Ballouz — a man who slaughtered his partner and their two young children, only to demand transfer to a women’s prison — is not an outlier. It is a wake-up call.

Women behind bars have already survived trauma, abuse, and marginalization. Housing them alongside biologically male offenders is not inclusion. It’s institutionalized cruelty.

Québec’s decision affirms what many women have been saying for years: biology matters, and boundaries matter. Prison is not a playground for identity politics. The stakes are too high.

We commend Minister François Bonnardel for listening to reason — and to women.

To those who will call this move “transphobic,” we say this: respecting sex-based rights is not hate. It is not exclusion. It is a moral obligation to protect the safety and dignity of every woman, including those society has already failed.

This is a turning point.

We call on other provinces, and our federal government, to follow Québec’s lead. Merci, Ministre Bonnardel.