BC Nurse suspended by college asked to pay $ 94K at cost for comments about transgender people
A BC nurse has been suspended and the cost has been asked to pay approximately $ 94,000 in the cost to make “discriminatory and derogatory statements” about transgender people.
The BC College of Nurses and Diyas say that a disciplinary panel has issued a decision against Amy Ham, suspended for a month, while ordered to pay the college’s cost and disbursement within two years.
The panel said in its judgment in March that Ham committed professional misconduct To give a statement Between July 2018 and March 2021, beyond “various online platforms”, partially “designed for fear, contempt and resentment against members of the transgender community. ,
College says Ham has filed Discipline order appeal The BC stops in the Supreme Court, and the decision on fine and cost until the appeal is resolved.
Trans people are protected from discrimination by laws in both BC and Canada, giving them the right to treat them according to their depth feeling.
BC had human rights code Revised in 2016 To include security against discrimination on gender identity or expression, while federal human rights and criminal codes were Updated next year,
The Justice Center for Contential Freedoms states in a release that Hamm was “punished for their statements that protect women’s rights to reach only women’s places.”
The release says that Ham had worked in health care for more than 13 years and was promoted to become a nurse teacher.
Hamm’s lawyer Lisa Buildi says in a statement he believes that the panel made “legal and factual errors” to reach its decision, which punishes the nurse to express the mainstream ideas alliances with science and general knowledge. “
Ham says in the statement that his comments are not disgusting.
“I am appealing because biological reality matters, and so there is freedom of expression,” she said.
Non-discriminatory care
The college reported the decision of the punishment that the decision is “an important statement against discrimination.”
“Nurses and doses have captured the state of faith and influence in our society,” the notice said.
“College will continue to stand against discrimination and believes that this is one of the main aspect of our public conservation mandate to ensure that the health care system is non-discriminatory.”
Complaint of human rights filed
Announcement comes About a month Justice Center for Contential Freedoms announced that it had filed two complaints with the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal.
Hamm has said that she is not transfobic, and she takes an issue with “violations on women and children”, and was particularly related to transgender women, who had access to spaces such as prisons and change rooms.
He said earlier that he Perves the concept of gender identity completely rejectsOn “anti -scientist, spiritual nonsense” and on social media posts, transgender women have referred to women as men.
Ham has obtained supportive statements from a wave of online followers, including writer JK Rowling, and has written several columns for various media outlets on many issues including politics and crime, as well as sex and gender.
He helped Pay for a billboard in Vancouver Supporting Rowling after sharing your ideas on online sex identity.
