Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre says the firing and penalizing of a B.C. nurse for saying “there are only two genders” amounts to “authoritarian censorship.”
Last week, the B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) found nurse Amy Hamm liable of “professional misconduct” over online comments she made on gender issues, ordering her to pay a fine of $93,639.80 and suspending her licence for a month.
The organization had accused Hamm three years ago of making “discriminatory and derogatory remarks concerning transgender people” in podcasts as well as in videos and on social media platforms between 2018 and 2021. She was also investigated by the college after helping a friend sponsor a billboard in support of UK author J.K. Rowling, who has been critical of biological males going to female-only spaces….