but 1st, my colleague soft taylor spoke to activist heather mason, who shed more light on this issue in canada and describe her own experience of abuse, imprison. oh, in fact, i want to get a sense of your time inside. and specifically, how problems inmates affected your experience. i was incarcerated with trans individuals and provincial that was the 1st time i came across did. and then again, when i went to federal and that was when they actually put them on compound with us, instead of segregating them away from us. and they didn't have to have surgery. so that happened in 2017. and what was your reaction when you lot that that was trans inmates living in the compound with you? well, i was actually really freak doe in provincial because they brought me over to the indirect supervision range. and there is a sex offender there that was fully intact and he was there hiding out because of his crimes. that's what the guard told me anyway, that he was trying to peek into my style when they're searching me. so that was my very 1st experience of that, but when i got to federal and i was t