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Offline Queefer Sutherland

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Re: Gender Culture
« Reply #1980 on: July 11, 2021, 07:40:12 pm »
We might soon have our own Forstater type situation here in Canada, as the BC College of Nurses is investigating Vancouver nurse Amy Eileen Hamm for thought-crimes.  Hamm was mentioned earlier in this thread after she was one of the sponsors of the "I (heart) JK Rowling" billboard that briefly appeared in Vancouver last year.  Hamm also has a podcast and is one of the founders of a gender-critical organization.  Hamm has obtained representation from the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms, the same religious-conservative law group that defended the aestheticians who refused to wax Jessica Yaniv's nut-sack.

https://www.jccf.ca/nurse-being-investigated-by-college-of-nurses-for-her-gender-critical-views/

The JK Rowling billboard is among the "issues" the College of Nurses is investigating. They are apparently also "concerned" about stuff she wrote on Twitter and in articles. None of the complaints came from any patients Hamm has interacted with, and none involve her on the job performance. The complaints are from anonymous activists and involve her expressing her views in her spare time.

I would expect that Hamm will be completely vindicated. However, even if she is vindicated, this is yet another instance where the process is the punishment.

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WTF does any of that have to do with her qualifications as a nurse?  Is there some policy at the College of Nurses saying all nurses are required to believe that sex and gender are not separate categories?  Any academic or feminist/LGBT literature i've ever read says they are separate.  But maybe the goalposts have shifted and activists are again trying to redefine established terms to fit their worldview.  The courts are the only thing that can protect science and rationality from some of these bullying activists.

The article you quoted seems surprisingly rational, even though I only read half of it:

"VANCOUVER: The Justice Centre is defending Amy Hamm, a Vancouver-area nurse, in an investigation by the BC College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM), after complaints were filed against her because of her “gender critical” views and her sponsorship of an advertising billboard expressing support for famed children’s author, J.K. Rowling. Ms. Hamm, a single mother of young children, is facing calls for her to be permanently removed from her career in nursing for expressing her opinion on an important issue currently being debated in the public square.

Gender critical feminists typically profess that transgender people have the right to live their lives with dignity and without harassment, but that identification as trans does not equate to literally changing sex. Conflating sex (a biological classification) with self-identified gender (a social construct) poses a risk to women’s sex-based rights, particularly in settings where natal women have an expectation of same-sex privacy and protection, such as women’s prisons, changerooms, and **** shelters. Women’s sports are another area where the implications of the biology-versus-gender debate have real impact, gender critics note.
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