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Nurse Being Investigated For 'I Love JK Rowling' Sign in Vancouvrr, Canada

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ScreamingMeMe · 20/07/2021 07:53

Here we go again....

ACanadian nurse is under investigation by a health regulator after complaints were made about an "I [heart] J.K. Rowling" billboard she paid for—a signage some argue supports the author's views on transgender people.

www.newsweek.com/nurse-being-investigated-i-love-jk-rowling-sign-over-threat-gender-diverse-people-1611017?amp=1

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Coyoacan · 22/07/2021 14:20

What happens when professionals in the field are not allowed to say that the treatments available for a problem do not work and, at the same, children are being taught in school that it is dead easy to change sex?

Helleofabore · 22/07/2021 11:10

Well... that particular person is one that still denies sex exists. Yesterday they were tweeting how phobic it was to not want to have sex with transpeople of the opposite sex you are attracted to.

I don't think they bother reading the group memo to check they are on message.

KittenKong · 22/07/2021 09:48

They must have female relatives for goodness sake? No one is saying “look pal, you just can’t defund a rape centre because it doesn’t cater for you - that’s just a petty and crappy thing to do. Women just don’t shit (well shouldn’t) on other women, eh?”

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ScreamingMeMe · 22/07/2021 07:07

Oger is a despicable person. Imagine 10 years ago a person campaigning to get a tape crisis centre shut down being met with anything other than disgust and derision.

I love that every time Oger tweets someone posts that tweet back at them.

And Trudeau with his multiple cases of blackface long after blackface was accepted as racist and offensive. But all forgiven in Trudeau's case.

Canada, what you doing?

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OnlyTheLangOfTheTitberg · 22/07/2021 06:39

Ahhhh, Tranada. Where you check your brain in at the border and collect it again as you leave.

toomanytrees · 22/07/2021 05:52

Say what you will about Donald Trump, it was obvious what he was from the get go. Trudeau on the other hand turned out to be a pig in a poke.

Delphinium20 · 22/07/2021 03:50

@xxyzz

US: we have Trump nonsense.

Justin Trudeau: Hold my beer...

Quite incredible how Canada has managed to out-Trump the US in offensive, misogynist denial of fact.

mic drop
Mulletsaremisunderstood · 21/07/2021 21:39

[quote ArabellaScott]Definitely Amy Hamm.

www.rebelnews.com/jonathan_yanivs_harassment_claim_dropped_bc_prosecutors_wont_charge_journalist_with_voyeurism[/quote]
Apologies, my bad. I must have heard it on the MM podcast or something. I'm glad the claim was dropped but it was still such a waste of her time!

xxyzz · 21/07/2021 05:27

US: we have Trump nonsense.

Justin Trudeau: Hold my beer...

Quite incredible how Canada has managed to out-Trump the US in offensive, misogynist denial of fact.

NiceGerbil · 21/07/2021 03:30

Oger

NiceGerbil · 21/07/2021 03:30

Over not getting much support there..!

NiceGerbil · 21/07/2021 03:27

Given Arabella link

Is it any wonder that she has views on this topic?!

NiceGerbil · 21/07/2021 03:25

Erm

So the phrase I love jk Rowling is verboten? Because it's threatening etc?

They'll need to investigate a lot of children.

Along with the dictionaries that have woman= adult human female.

Those words are utterly bland.

I mean FFS.

Mulletsaremisunderstood · 20/07/2021 14:54

Jonathan Yaniv accused Amy Hamm of voyeurism in a women’s bathroom in the local courthouse in 2019. There was a full investigation and the Crown did not press charges.

Am I misremembering, or was this not Meghan Murphy? Or maybe I heard it on MM's podcast. Apparently she walked into the women's bathroom and JY was in there Angry. When she turned around and walked out JY ran after her and accused her of harassment and taking photos of them. Security took her phone and checked it and everything. Apparently JY can't deal with the fact that women don't want to share women's bathrooms with him.

What a twat!

IAmAWomanNotACis · 20/07/2021 14:18

@DifficultBloodyWoman

Jonathan Yaniv* accused Amy Hamm of voyeurism in a women’s bathroom in the local courthouse in 2019. There was a full investigation and the Crown did not press charges.

*I use the name Jonathan Yaniv because, in accordance with Mumsnet Guidance, and the ‘Karen White’ example, he is best known for his criminal activities, for harassing young girls online and in person, and for wanting to help young girls use a tampon for the first time. Moderators, please note that we have have been able to use the name ‘Jonathan Yaniv’ in the past without deletion. It is relevant.

Just when I thought my jaw had dropped so much it was unable to drop any further.

Hey I have a question. "It's all a bit 1984" has been said a lot in the last 10 years or so.

When do we switch to "It's more 1984 that then year 1984 itself!?"

Helleofabore · 20/07/2021 14:13

headintheproverbial

Do you really think the investigating body would miss some pertinent information? Like the part about believing sex is immutable and just focus on beliefs that ‘harm’ others…

Surely not? Wink

headintheproverbial · 20/07/2021 13:49

@Helleofabore

Amy Hamm is being investigated by the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) following complaints that her view that identifying as trans does not equate to changing biological sex would threaten "trans and gender-diverse communities," according to Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) lawyers representing the nurse.

Anyone else’s head explode at the dissonance in that sentence.

A nurse, being investigated by a professional body that requires extensive knowledge of the human body, for holding the opinion a person cannot change sex. Because to say it out loud is threatening to the group of people who wish to live in a world where everyone pretends to believe the impossible.

Thanks for sharing screamingmeme. I hope sense will prevail in this investigation. I await their judgment statement.

Well I mean of course I agree with you but the dissonance is there because HER legal team wrote that description. You can bet it is far less obviously bonkers when described by the regulatory body investigating her. And therein lies the rub.
DifficultBloodyWoman · 20/07/2021 10:02

Jonathan Yaniv* accused Amy Hamm of voyeurism in a women’s bathroom in the local courthouse in 2019. There was a full investigation and the Crown did not press charges.

*I use the name Jonathan Yaniv because, in accordance with Mumsnet Guidance, and the ‘Karen White’ example, he is best known for his criminal activities, for harassing young girls online and in person, and for wanting to help young girls use a tampon for the first time. Moderators, please note that we have have been able to use the name ‘Jonathan Yaniv’ in the past without deletion. It is relevant.

Xoxoxoxoxoxox · 20/07/2021 09:17

I have a feeling that it is going to be like the American 'war on drugs' -one of those policies everyone can see doesn't work but no political party can exit from without a huge backlash and no one believes in.

FloralBunting · 20/07/2021 09:00

@Waitwhat23

'The authors views on transgender people' were stated quite clearly in her essay - she doesn't want to see transgender people discriminated against but discusses the very valid reasons why single sex spaces are important. Half the people saying JKR is transphobic haven't even read the essay, they're just going off social media froth whipped up by people with a very specific agenda.
I'd say half is a generous assessment of how many people have read it. If they have read anything, it's usually Headtilt Monty's clueless 'rebuttal'.
Aroundtheworldin80moves · 20/07/2021 08:52

Stuff like that is actually an insult to real hate crime and discrimination faced by women and minorities around the world, including trans people.

StealthPolarBear · 20/07/2021 08:36

So Canadians are no longer allowed to like certain mainstream authors? Bloody hell.

Waitwhat23 · 20/07/2021 08:35

'The authors views on transgender people' were stated quite clearly in her essay - she doesn't want to see transgender people discriminated against but discusses the very valid reasons why single sex spaces are important. Half the people saying JKR is transphobic haven't even read the essay, they're just going off social media froth whipped up by people with a very specific agenda.