Thread by @neil_dorin

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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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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This allows her to maintain her air of expertise by pretending like questions worded in lay language are somehow hard for her to answer without having to trouble herself by explaining all the nuances of her very complicated field.

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This may actually be true, but seems like a tactic she employs selectively. It comes across as manipulative and dodgy.

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The end of Dr. Bauer’s testimony marked the tentative rest of the case for the College made by their lawyers. Finally it was time for the witnesses on Amy’s side to be heard.

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It’s important to point out that the college had already tried to discredit and disqualify ALL of Amy’s expert witnesses by asking Dr. Bauer to weigh in on their qualifications and expertise. The college put forth a motion to dismiss these witnesses and lost, thankfully.

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The next day and a half were spent mostly consisting of BF cross examining Dr. Mirriam Grosman about her CV and trying to prove how she might be unqualified to give testimony. Odd considering she’s the only witness on both sides who actually treats youth with gender dysphoria

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Dr Grossman, so far, has been quite impressive. She has maintainer calm, cool and collected, while BF tries her best to talk as slowly as possible and ask the most ludicrously open ended questions I’ve ever heard.

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It seems as though the goal of BF and her fellow legal team is to somehow drag this process out as long as possible to somehow “run out the clock” but I’m not even sure how that might work given apparently there are already requests to further extend the trial beyond 18 days

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BF tried to get Dr. Grossman to admit she had been using “conversion therapy” on her patients, but Grossman wasn’t falling for the trap. She clearly stated that her patients are free to identify however they want and that she doesn’t push her ideas on them.

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This did seem to frustrate BF a fair bit, which I’ll admit was satisfying to watch, as BF spends most of her time doing her damndest to make everyone else exceedingly uncomfortable.

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Today ended with no verdict on whether the Panel would accept Dr Grossman as qualified to give testimony as an expert witness. She is not available the rest of this week so up next will hopefully be Dr. Kathleen Stock tomorrow!

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