07-04-2025
WATCH: Amy Hamm on advocating for sex-based rights as a nurse in Canada
The verdict is in.
After a four-year battle with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives, nurse Amy Hamm has been found guilty of 'professional misconduct.'
It started when Hamm's advocacy for sex-based rights (as opposed to gender-based rights) — including her co-commissioning of a billboard that read, 'I love JK Rowling,' and her suggestion that transgender women should not be in the same formerly private spaces and leagues as biological women — led to public complaints and an investigation, which determined that doing so was discriminatory, derogatory and undermined trust in the nursing profession.
As a nurse, Hamm has never once received a patient complaint. The entire case against her was based solely on her conduct outside of work.
Hamm's case highlights the legal tensions that exist between professional associations, women's rights and the more recent protections in the Canadian Human Rights Act for 'gender identity or expression.'
But is Amy Hamm a bad nurse for voicing her concerns?
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