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@preta_6

Here we go with today's next instalment in the Amy Hamm Witch Trial (aka BC College of Nurses and Midwives discipline hearing). Again, I'll be live tweeting highlights

#IStandWithAmyHamm #NursesWillSpeak @preta_6

First order of business is submissions to qualify witnesses. Karen Bastow, counsel for Amy, is up first. She outlines some cases she's relying on for qualifying witnesses.

Bastow: Dr. Miriam Grossman is no doubt an expert witness. Amy relies on Charter rights of freedom of expression. This is not a negligence case. It's a speech case. Qualifying Grossman is crucial to demonstrating that Amy is speaking in good faith.

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@preta_6

Personal observations on day 8&9 (Jan 10-11, 2023) of Amy Hamm’s (@preta_6) @BCnursemidwife disciplinary hearing. 🧵…

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Day 8 wrapped up the testimony of Dr. Greta Bauer.

Dr Bauer continues to present as smug and condescending at times. This is only surpassed by the behaviour of BARBARA FINDLAY on cross examination.

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@LDBildy

When asked simple, straightforward questions by @LDBildy that challenge her ideology, Dr. Bauer often dodges by making pedantic points about how the ethics of research are performed and how she as an epidemiologist does things.

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And we're back for another exciting day of The Amy Hamm Witch Hunt! I'll be tweeting highlights as best I can

#IStandWithAmyHamm #NursesWillSpeak

Counsel for the BC Colleges of Nurses and Midwives Barbara Findlay is cross-examining Dr. Miriam Grossman regarding her qualifications as a witness for the respondent. Going over her CV.

Findlay introduces a transcript of a talk Grossman gave, transcribed by Findlay herself. Karen Bastow, counsel for Amy objects, as the transcript was not done by a third party, asks to see the actual video of the talk instead.

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@preta_6

Watching @preta_6's witch hunt er... tribunal today and will try to tweet some highlights as I can

#IStandWithAmyHamm #NursesWillSpeak

@LDBildy

First witness being questioned by Amy's lawyer @LDBildy is sexuality and gender health expert Greta Bauer, continuing her testimony from October
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Greta Bauer doesn't know for sure if Lupron is being used off-label for puberty blockade. (It is.) She doesn't know if most children whose puberty is blocked go on to cross-sex hormones. (They do.)

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@BCnursemidwife

Notes for day 1 of the 2nd session of the @BCnursemidwife Disciplinary Hearing for @preta_6.

It took place on Oct 24th

Links to the previous 3 day session which took place in September are linked in the next tweet
#istandwithamyhamm #womenwillspeak #nurseswillspeak

Link to the last three day session:

https://twitter.com/goinglikeelsie/status/1578836520517398528?s=20&t=aTgwHujZ6GjL4I07r-d3RQ

@preta_6

As a reminder, this is a hearing into two complaints (one anonymous, one by Alex Turrif) that were originally about @preta_6’s participation in putting up a billboard that said I ❤️@jk_rowling.
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@_CryMiaRiver

Lisa Bildy tried to get Bauer to agree on a definition of female, offering
Heather Heying's definition: females are individuals who do or did or will or would, but for developmental or genetic anomalies, produce eggs.

Bauer dodged it with another word salad.

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Then BARBARA FINDLAY weighed in with an objection, saying a definition of female is outside Bauer's area of expertise.🤡

Bauer is a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics.

You couldn't make this up. How are we supposed to take these people seriously!?

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Obviously, a large part of the BCCNM case is that it is derogatory towards transgender people to say that there are only two sexes, and yet their expert witness cannot even define what sex is.
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@preta_6

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Day 6 of the disciplinary hearing of @preta_6 by the BC College of Nurses and Midwives is now underway. I'll do my best to capture it again today. Lisa Bildy will now being her cross-examination of Dr. Greta Bauer, witness for the College. >

Bildy starts with an examination of Bauer's report to the College, specifically the terminology used. Bildy: "Have you coined any of these terms?" Bauer: "I don't believe so." Bildy: "How does 'agender' different from 'non-binary'?" Bauer: "Not subscribing to gender." >

Bildy: "Just trying to understand. Are they acknowledging they understand there's gender identity?" Barbara Findlay tries to object. Bauer: "It's one identity that someone might hold." Bildy: "Is non-binary different?" Bauer: "It's a broader identity that includes agender." >

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@preta_6

#IStandWithAmyHamm

The BCCNM disciplinary hearing of @preta_6 continues with Barbara Findlay's questioning of Greta Bauer.

Findlay opens with a Q re: Dr. Miriam Grossman's written submission regarding female reproduction. Findlay: "Can trans men breastfeed?" Bauer: "Yes." >

Findlay asks about gender fluidity: "Is there an open-ended number of gender identities?" Bauer: "It's not an infinite number. But people have individual ways of expressing gender." >

Findlay continues interrogating Dr. Grossman's written submission. Findlay: "Is sex distinct from gender?" Bauer: "Yes." Now turning to Grossman's comments on Dr. John Money, inventor of "gender identity" and the case of Bruce Reimer. >

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@preta_6

Today, as an observer for the disciplinary hearing of @preta_6, I witnessed what I think was one of the most despicable, unethical displays of quackery I've ever seen. A 🧵...

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BARBARA FINDLAY, a lawyer for BCCNM, spent the better part of the day attempting to discredit the statements of the expert witnesses that Amy's lawyers plan to call. She asked her last "expert" witness, Dr. Greta Bauer, to opine on the credentials of other witnesses.

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This began, by repeatedly referring to Dr. Linda Blade as "Ms. Blade," ignoring the fact that Linda is not only married, but also holds a PhD in Kinesiology from SFU. A fact that ought to have been rather obvious given the context of attempting to discredit her CV.

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@preta_6

#IStandWithAmyHamm
Listening to @preta_6's hearing and so far Greta Bauer's testimony contains so many contradictions, it's hard to know where to begin. She calls @jk_rowling "transphobic" but when pressed says "I can't say whether she hates anyone because hate is an emotion." >

She says "no one says sex isn't real" but won't admit that womanhood is a biological reality. She talks about male violence but if sex is real and trans identified males are real, why no empathy for women? >

She admitted in previous testimony that sex and gender identity are different categories but is repeatedly conflating sex with gender. Plus Lawyer Barbara Findlay frames everything in terms of male and female. The whole line of questioning is a dog's breakfast of illogic. >

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@BCnursemidwife

This will be the thread for my notes of the third day of the @BCnursemidwife Hearing for @preta_6 This hearing took place on Sept 23. #nurseswillspeak #womenwillspeak #IStandWithAmyHamm

Day 2 is here and includes a link to Day 1

https://twitter.com/goinglikeelsie/status/1574852938287108097

@preta_6

As a reminder, this is a hearing into two complaints (one anonymous, one by Alex Turrif) that were originally about @preta_6’s participation in putting up a billboard that said I ❤️@jk_rowling.

This apparently morphed into an investigation of Amy’s social media and participation in political action supporting women’s sex based rights and resulted in citation by the College. At one point, it included a charge of provide in medically incorrect information.

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@BCnursemidwife

Thread for day 2 of the @BCnursemidwife Disciplinary Committee Hearing for Amy Eileen Hamm (@preta_6). The thread for Day 1 is linked.

#IStandWithAmyHamm #nurseswillspeak #womenwillspeak

https://twitter.com/goinglikeelsie/status/1572662970563588097

@BCnursemidwife

Day 2 of this hearing took place on Sept 22. This is the second of three planned days for the @BCnursemidwife College to present a case to support their citation.

@jk_rowling

Excerpt from the citation is below. Important to note that this all began because of two complaints, one by Alex Turriff, one anonymous about a I❤️@jk_rowling billboard that @preta_6 helped put up.

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@preta_6

After two days of hearings for @preta_6, there’s a nagging thought that I can’t shake after watching yesterday’s cross examination of the head of the UBC nursing program by Amy’s very diligent lawyer, Karen Bastow:

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Amy graduated from the UBC nursing program, with honours, roughly a decade ago and has maintained continuing education since then. She is facing two allegations from the public, one of which is still anonymous regarding her public comments on social media.

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Many of the comments in question are based in the factual information professed to her by UBC. These facts are rooted in hundreds of years of scientific consensus about the biological reality of the human species.

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Chair asks lawyers to introduce themselves and invites them to share their pronouns.

For the College:

Michael Seaborn, He/Him
Brent Olthuis, He/Him
barbara findlay She/Her

bf also identifies that she uses lowercase letters

For Amy Eileen Hamm:

Lisa Bildy
Karen Bastow

Neither accept the invitation to share their pronouns.

Though it is a matter of public record, I have deleted my tweet documenting the Member’s names.

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