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Article content These are worrying times for free speech in this country and it is not helped with the persecution of British Columbia nurse Amy Hamm by the province's College of Nurses and Midwives. Article content Hamm is the nurse who said sex is binary and also helped pay to put up a sign in Vancouver that declared, 'I (heart) J K Rowling.' Article content Article content For these and similar crimes, Hamm has now been suspended from nursing for a month and ordered to pay the shocking and unjustified sum of $93,639.80 in legal costs. Article content With its punitive disciplinary decision, the college appears to be saying that you can either shut up or suffer what amounts to a $93,000 fine for exercising your right to free speech. Article content It is a chilling ruling but one that is not surprising given the increasing number of self-important, bloated, authoritarian organizations and professional bodies in Canada that think the Charter right to free speech and free expression is a mere whimsy. Article content What really irked the college — and the very expensive witnesses they called — was that Hamm sometimes identified as a nurse when she used social media to expand on her mainstream views about sex, gender and women's safe spaces. Article content Hamm first got into trouble with the 2020 billboard supporting the Harry Potter author whose gender critical views have also come under fire. Article content A complaint about the billboard started an investigation by the college's inquiry committee which resulted in a ridiculous 332-page report about Hamm's off-duty tweets, articles and other online musings. Article content Hamm found herself being prosecuted for such things as writing, 'trans activists determined to infiltrate or destroy women-only spaces' which is discriminatory, according to the disciplinary panel, because it has 'a negative connotation of improper, illegal, aggressive, and destructive conduct.' Article content Another problematic post read, 'Is there anything more embarrassing than straight people going by they/them, getting a dumb haircut, and calling themselves trans and queer?' which is apparently offensive because it 'indirectly disparages transgender people.' Article content The 332-pages morphed into a 20-day disciplinary hearing spread over 19 months. Hamm was eventually found guilty of professional misconduct because of four instances where she identified herself as a nurse while apparently making 'discriminatory and derogatory' comments. Article content However, as Hamm pointed out: there was no 'direct victim'; complainants were 'ideological opponents'; no patients were involved and no trans-identified people came forward to provide evidence of harm. Article content But none of that mattered. What mattered was only the 'likelihood that trans-identified people would find her statements to be discriminatory and derogatory.' Article content Thus Hamm was punished, not for any harm, but the risk of harm. Article content It was similar reasoning that saw Christian singer Sean Feucht banned from so many Canadian venues — for safety reasons which were never detailed. Article content Again, the same rationale — security issues — saw the Toronto International Film Festival pull the documentary The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue about one family's experience in Israel on October 7, 2023. (TIFF has now reversed course.) 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