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Jamie Sarkonak: No one knows who this mental patient is. They were put on cross-gender drugs anyway
Though this person was found not criminally responsible for assault, officials aren't even sure if they're a Canadian citizen
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Housed in the Women’s General Forensic Unit of Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is a male inpatient, detained there for committing violent acts. This individual identifies as transgender and is receiving hormone treatments, but their identity is a mystery.
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It seems that it’s not just prisons that are struggling with preserving female spaces — it’s also the psych wards.
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In this case, “Camilla Shapiro,” a homeless person in Toronto, ended up at CAMH after being found not criminally responsible for assault (slapping someone outside the Eaton Centre so hard they fell to the ground) and assault causing bodily harm (shoving another homeless person’s face into the ground, causing them to lose teeth, in retaliation for an assault) in September 2024.
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