LIVE UPDATES: Closing arguments in case of B.C. nurse accused of 'transphobia'
A nurse, women’s rights activist, and single mother of two is entering the final stages of her gruelling disciplinary hearing before the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM).
The final stages of a disciplinary trial for BC Nurse & sex-based rights activist Amy Hamm (@preta_6) has officially begun.
— Drea Humphrey - Prepping and Politics (@DreaHumphrey) March 18, 2024
Hamm, is accused of transphobia for her advocacy and biology sound comments such as there are only 2 genders.
Follow my summary of arguments in thread👇🏾 pic.twitter.com/IMImydqytn
Defence attorneys Lisa Bildy and Karen Bastow, who have been hired by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) to defend Hamm at no cost to her, will be presenting their closing arguments on behalf of Hamm to three hearing panellists.
Self-proclaimed “old white cisgender queer” lawyer Barbara Findlay and Michel Seaborn, counsel for the BCCNM, are expected to present their closing arguments on Tuesday.
“I feel a bit silly for making some emotional/angry posts lately,” Hamm wrote this past weekend on X (formerly Twitter) in anticipation of Monday's hearing. “Just under a lot of stress, pressure, and uncertainty. I've got this. We've got this! Let's go!”
Hamm’s troubles with her licensing body began back in 2020, after a couple of anonymous complaints were lodged against her for her role in an “I ❤️️ J.K. Rowling” billboard message that was raised in Vancouver as a symbol of solidarity with the famous author's position on gender ideology.
After combing through hundreds of Hamm’s social media comments, which included biologically sound statements such as “there are only 2 genders” and calls for biological males to be removed from women’s prisons and sports, the BCCNM rescinded its original charge of “medically inaccurate information” against Hamm and in turn charging Hamm with making “discriminatory and derogatory statements regarding transgender people” between July 2018 and March 2021.
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3) Counsel for the college Michael Seaborn gives opening statements to remind panel what the hearing is about.
— Drea Humphrey - Prepping and Politics (@DreaHumphrey) March 18, 2024
Says the panel is being asked to decide whether Hamm published off duty statements that discriminate against trans gender people while identifying as a nurse. pic.twitter.com/Lv9vB2KkgW
5) Findlay’s imaginary story begins with a person who identifies as trans and is travelling to Ottawa and getting misgendered along the way.
— Drea Humphrey - Prepping and Politics (@DreaHumphrey) March 18, 2024
The end up having to use a bathroom for disabled people.
7) … is to imagine how it feels.
— Drea Humphrey - Prepping and Politics (@DreaHumphrey) March 18, 2024
What it feels like if someone misgenders you, what it feels like if someone treats you as a threat or as a fraud or as a freak.
9) Says Hamm made discriminatory and derogatory statements regarding transgender people.
— Drea Humphrey - Prepping and Politics (@DreaHumphrey) March 18, 2024
11) Findlay tells the panel that their decision will either determine “support the ability of trans and non binary people to interact with and have confidence in the support of the nursing profession and more broadly, the health sector. Or, it will sanction the right of nurses…
— Drea Humphrey - Prepping and Politics (@DreaHumphrey) March 18, 2024
13) Findlay reads some of Hamm’s testimony and claims they speak to her belief surrounding trans peoples existence:
— Drea Humphrey - Prepping and Politics (@DreaHumphrey) March 18, 2024
In her evidence, she says the base claim of gender identity is this notion that humans have within them in their brain “a gender soul or a gender identity and as…
15) Findlay continues reading from Hamm’s testimony:
— Drea Humphrey - Prepping and Politics (@DreaHumphrey) March 18, 2024
Hamm: I believe everyone has a biological sex and they have a personality and that males and females you know, there are stereotypes associated with males and females when it comes to their interest and behavior…
17) Findlay’s recap of Hamm’s testimony cont’d:
— Drea Humphrey - Prepping and Politics (@DreaHumphrey) March 18, 2024
Hamm: … I frankly think that that is anti scientific metaphysical nonsense.
19. Findlay continued to summon the panel back into imagining they were the made up trans woman named “Lee” she created for them to embody at the beginning of her closing arguments.
— Drea Humphrey - Prepping and Politics (@DreaHumphrey) March 18, 2024
What follows are the questions she poses to the panel about “Lee.”
21: Findlay cont’d:
— Drea Humphrey - Prepping and Politics (@DreaHumphrey) March 18, 2024
Is it ok Lee, that you cannot pee in a women’s washroom?
23) She begins by recapping the case of Hansman v Neufeld.
— Drea Humphrey - Prepping and Politics (@DreaHumphrey) March 18, 2024
The supreme court dismissed Neufeld’s, a former Chilliwack school district trustee who advocates against radical gender ideology in schools, defamation suit against former president of the BC Teachers' Federation (BCTF).
25) Another case Findlay discussed is the infamous parental rights case A.B. vs. C.D.
— Drea Humphrey - Prepping and Politics (@DreaHumphrey) March 18, 2024
Where a BC father was in the courts for 5 years and even sentenced to prison for breaching publication bans to discuss how his child was transitioned without his consent. https://t.co/w1Loy3tWdU
27) Findlay’s conclusion:
— Drea Humphrey - Prepping and Politics (@DreaHumphrey) March 18, 2024
In the evidence and in its written arguments the college has addressed in much more detail than we have in this oral submission, the ways in which the respondent statements may while identifying as a nurse are discriminatory to you or derogatory of…
25) Another case Findlay discussed is the infamous parental rights case A.B. vs. C.D.
— Drea Humphrey - Prepping and Politics (@DreaHumphrey) March 18, 2024
Where a BC father was in the courts for 5 years and even sentenced to prison for breaching publication bans to discuss how his child was transitioned without his consent. https://t.co/w1Loy3tWdU
27) Findlay’s conclusion:
— Drea Humphrey - Prepping and Politics (@DreaHumphrey) March 18, 2024
In the evidence and in its written arguments the college has addressed in much more detail than we have in this oral submission, the ways in which the respondent statements may while identifying as a nurse are discriminatory to you or derogatory of…
29) Findlay’s conclusion cont’d:
— Drea Humphrey - Prepping and Politics (@DreaHumphrey) March 18, 2024
She argues for the exclusion of trans people from the most basic forms of social life ie. washrooms and change rooms.
She would have trans people be pariahs , ostracized from the community.
31) Findlay cont’d:
— Drea Humphrey - Prepping and Politics (@DreaHumphrey) March 18, 2024
… because that inclusion is likely to confirm for trans people, unfortunately the view that they already hold, which is that health care is not a safe place for them.
Drea Humphrey
B.C. Bureau Chief
Based in British Columbia, Drea Humphrey reports on Western Canada for Rebel News. Drea’s reporting is not afraid to challenge political correctness, or ask the tough questions that mainstream media tends to avoid.
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