A twisted serial sex predator who switched genders on the taxpayer dime while locked up in Canada is pushing to be transferred to a woman’s prison.
Manfred Sperling transitioned from a man to a woman in 2024 — and now blames the string of violent sexual offenses that landed him behind bars on his “dead self,” according to CBC News.
Sperling, 58, has been in and out prison for sex crimes since 1986, when he was first convicted of sexual assault at the age of 19. After his release, he went on a four-day sex assault spree, grabbing a 12-year-old girl who was rollerblading in a mall parking lot in Montreal by the neck and threatening to rape her, and sexually assaulting two women.
Psychiatrists at the time slammed Sperling’s depraved urges, and a judge said then 34-year-old, 6-foot-5, 190-pound man “does not hesitate to use his strength, weight and size to control his victims.”
He was declared a dangerous offender and sentenced for an undetermined period for sexual assault.
In his first year behind bars, Sperling threatened to sexually assault and kill female staff, landing him in a super-maximum men’s prison in Quebec, according to records.
Sometime in 2017, he was assessed for gender dysphoria.
By 2020, he began identifying as a woman and in 2024 underwent top and bottom gender surgery, estimated to cost $30,000 — all on the taxpayer’s dime, according to an affidavit filed in court.
Sperling, who now goes by Amanda Joy Cooper, now lives as a woman while serving time in Millhaven Institution, wearing women’s clothes and nail polish.
Sperling had “very little meaningful social interaction” with other men behind bars and has been groped and bullied by other inmates, according to the affidavit.
“Her message to us and her message to the court is, ‘I’m a woman with a vagina in a men’s prison. You think I’m safe here?’” Cooper’s lawyer, Jessica Rose, told the outlet in an interview.
Sperling’s history of “obsessive attachments” to female staff even while in prison makes him a “very high risk to the safety” of female inmates, according to Corrections Canada, which has so far rejected the requests.
Sterling hasn’t taken accountability for his crimes, instead blaming them on his “dead self” – the term transgender people use to refer to the person they were before the transition, Corrections Canada noted.
Sterling is now trying to get a federal court judge to overturn Corrections Canada’s decision, with a hearing set for next week.
“Sexual violence isn’t prevented by surgery,” slammed Heather Mason of Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights.
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