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From my guilty verdict: "The panel understands that the statement that there are only two sexes — male and female — is an oversimplification that does not align with current medical or biological understanding."

— Amy Eileen Hamm (@preta_6) March 14, 2025

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The panel, in other words, understands nothing.

Amy Hamm in Canada's National Post:

I have lost my case with the B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM). A three-member panel found me guilty of “unprofessional conduct” for sharing my views on sex and gender ideology, in a manner that they have ruled as, at times, “discriminatory and derogatory” towards transgender identified persons.

The case, funded generously by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms since it began in late 2020, opened with an investigation sparked by public complaints about my involvement in advocating for women’s sex-based rights, and closed with more than 20 days of disciplinary hearings spread out over two years. I have never once had a patient complaint, and the entire case was based solely on my conduct outside of work. Nearly one year to the day after the hearing concluded, I received the guilty verdict on Thursday.

The complaints made against me included an “I love JK Rowling” billboard in Vancouver that I and a friend commissioned, as well as various posts I’ve made online.

My indomitable lawyer, Lisa Bildy, has given sage advice that, in my current situation — facing a “sentencing” hearing for my alleged misconduct, barring an appeal to the B.C. Supreme Court — I must temper my words to avoid harsher punishment.

I can’t do that. I have reached the summit of my tolerance for catering to the demands of gender activists and the institutional forces that they weaponize against women who speak the truth. I have had it.

My ruling was given by a three-person panel consisting of a former nurse, a current nurse, and one public representative, with the assistance of a constitutional lawyer. “(T)he Panel is not concerned with the validity of the Respondent’s beliefs,” they wrote in their ruling.

That is simply untrue — as evidenced by the very statements given in the same ruling.

From my guilty verdict: “The panel understands that the statement that there are only two sexes — male and female — is an oversimplification that does not align with current medical or biological understanding.”

ndcuffed him to a radiator but, once they were out of the room, he managed to free himself, locate his phone – which had been taken from him – and escape….

In a statement from Kashti read out by the prosecuting lawyer Craig Jones, the court heard how he was in “complete shock and fear and felt as though he was going to end up dead.”

“As an Israeli Jew, this was my own personal October 7,” Kashti said in his victim impact statement, going on to say that October 7 “was flashing through my mind” as he was restrained. Jones said Kashti also said he was thinking about his “Jewish ancestors who suffered in the Holocaust” during the ordeal….

They conspired to keep the motivations for the kidnapping “clean” and only about the money to make it appear as “a non-politically motivated kidnap”.

Simi wrote that if Kashti were to realise “the Islamic angle, the eventual retaliation and effort into retaliation is 10 times worse.”

“We shouldn’t colour this as an Islamic thing. Don’t say Islamic phrases around him, so we’re just in it for the money,” the messages said, as read by Prosecutor Jones.

Intended to act as “inspiration” for the crime, pinned to the top of the Telegram group chat was an Islamic “litany for victory”, which they suggested they recite or listen to every day while “keeping in mind your intention of jihad,” the prosecution said.

Assuring the group, Simi messaged: “All three of us have complete 100 per cent faith in Allah, so we can’t fail.”

Ha!

ccording to the director of a new film about an explosion of violence on American university campuses.

Wendy Sachs’s documentary October 8 was released on Friday in the US and she hopes to bring the film to British audiences this year.

The film comes as President Trump’s administration this week cancelled $400 million in funds to Columbia University in New York, claiming that it failed to protect Jewish students amid pro-Palestinian protests on campus.

Sachs, who is also the film’s executive producer, said there were “a lot of parallels” with the UK.

“As someone who is very much entrenched in Democratic politics and progressive causes, I can tell you what’s happening on the left here in America really mirrors what’s been happening on the left in the UK for more than a decade,” she said.

Well yes, it's bad here – but Americans, especially on the left, do love to point out how bad things are here in the UK by comparison with their own "City on a Hill". See the NYT. I'd suggest that we have nothing here on the scale of Columbia University, say, to pick the obvious example. The familiar Zionist-Nazi slurs combine with all the settler colonialism stuff they get taught there to produce a particularly toxic mix of anti-Zionist/antisemitic activism.

On the other hand:

University societies are glorifying Hamas and sharing antisemitic messages, with campus tensions escalating so severely that Jewish sixth-formers are attending workshops to prepare them for being targeted for abuse.

The higher education regulator has warned universities that free speech does not include harassment of Jewish students nor support for terrorists. Its intervention came after student activists shared material sympathetic to Hamas.

Analysis by The Times found student groups praising terrorist “martyrs”, including the architect of the October 7 atrocity in which more than 1,200 people were killed, and liking images on social media of Hamas fighters.

You know, the way Putin is now wriggling out of the ceasefire proposal is just the quintessence of how Russia has behaved for all these decades and what kind of 'peace deals' it is willing to make.

In particular, he's saying: 'We are, in principle, open to a ceasefire, but…

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In particular, he's saying: 'We are, in principle, open to a ceasefire, but Ukraine must not receive aid, must not mobilize troops, and must not rearm itself for these 30 days bla bla bla."

But does Russia, in turn, plan to stop producing weapons, refrain from supplying them to its troops, halt artillery and ammunition purchases from North Korea and Iran, stop manufacturing missiles and drones, and cease buying cannon fodder across Russia and North Korea for insane amounts of money?

Well, of course, absolutely fucking not.

Putin has spent his entire life demanding everything from everyone while offering nothing in return.

Go ahead, try negotiating "peace" with this KGB con artist.

Q&A Wisconsin testimony AB104 @JamieWhistle talks about how she came to change her mind. …. “ I beg my party , please, do the scientific right thing.” pic.twitter.com/2dRHQe63jO

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From their new book Brick Lane in London: All the World’s a Stage.

e banner of ‘protecting biological women’.

But when we fall into the trap of defining women in strictly biological terms, we harm all women — reinforcing restrictive definitions of womanhood and encouraging greater scrutiny of gender norms.

Ah yes, transmisogyny. It's the new transphobia.

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The author, Chloe Diamond-Lenow, is an Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Study at SUNY Oneonta. "They specialize in feminist and queer theory, postcolonial animal studies, affect theory, cultural studies, and theories of intersectionality. Some of the classes they teach include “Queer Theory,” “Trans and  Women of Color Feminisms,” “Trans Lives and Constructs of Conformity,” and “Gender, Power, and Difference"."

Brendan O'Neill has some fun with Dylan Mulvaney on the publication of his book Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer. "Batshit insane".

Some people will bristle at my use of male pronouns for Mulvaney, but if you think I’m saying ‘she’ and ‘her’ about someone who’s so obsessed with his own schlong that he has a name for it – ‘Missy’ – then you must be off your rocker. ‘I am a woman with a penis’, he writes. Can we take a second to marvel at the sheer delirium of a statement like that? A hundred years ago if you said ‘I’m a woman with a penis’, you’d have been quietly shuffled off to Bedlam. Now you get an advance from Hachette and a birthday card from the vice-president of the United States.

That was Kamala Harris, after Joe Biden received Mulvaney at the White House. "God love you" was Biden's heart-felt response on meeting the pink ever-so-girlie wonder. And, apart perhaps from Gavin Newsom, the Dems still haven't worked out why Trump won.

revealed that Manly is not only employed by the university but also subsidized by the American taxpayer. According to the National Institutes of Health and other publicly accessible databases, she has been named in connection with over $100 million in grants over the past 20 years. Much of her research is based on the so-called social determinants of health thesis, which posits that racism, sexism, and homophobia can cause brain disease in “Black and Latinx communities”—a thesis that critics have described as pseudo-science. (Manly, Columbia, and NIH did not return requests for comment.)