March 21 - 27: Canada's nurse Amy Hamm FIRED for knowing biology
While many public institutions across the West are pulling back from gender ideology...
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BREAKING: BC nurse Amy Hamm FIRED without severance
Theme 1 of this week’s issue of WAHF: Canada is a country still firmly engulfed by gender ideology.
One of the big Canadian names in the gender culture war has been nurse Amy Hamm, who has been facing a disciplinary panel of the British Columbia Nurses and Midwives for the alleged unprofessional conduct of making “discriminatory and derogatory statements” about trans-identifying people.
The legal saga began after Hamm co-sponsored a billboard in September 2020 expressing support for author JK Rowling… who has spoken out extensively on protecting women’s spaces. The billboard was quickly removed after 30 hours after a Vancouver city councillor condemned it as transphobic and the advertising company pulled it.
A complaint was lodged against Hamm with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) claiming that she was transphobic and unfit for her profession, calling for Hamm to be removed from the profession.
The panel's decision was released on March 14th, finding that Hamm made statements across "various online platforms" between July 2018 and March 2021 that were partly designed "to elicit fear, contempt and outrage against members of the transgender community." The decision said Hamm had discredited the nursing profession by publically identifying herself as a nurse or nurse educator while making statements that were mostly "untruthful and unfair," challenging the "existence of transgender women" and advocating for less "constitutional protection" for them.
Yesterday Hamm was fired by Vancouver Coastal Health.
Hamm said on X.com: "I was just fired by VCHhealthcare after 13 years of employment as a registered nurse, with no severance, because I know that men are not women.”
Efforts to silence Girls, Women, and Their Supporters
Mar. 25 - University of Sussex FINED £585k in transgender free speech row
Theme 2 of this week’s edition is around the apparent turning trajectory in many public institutions across the West.
The University of Sussex has been fined £585,000 by the higher education regulator, the Office for Students, for failing to uphold freedom of speech. The review began after Professor Kathleen Stock was bullied out of her work by protests and harassment that accused her of transphobia for her views on sex and gender issues.
Stock said in an UnHerd article, Fortunes are changing in the culture war Sussex University should move on:
“In 2018, when this policy document was first published, something like it was mandatory for any organisation that wished to climb Stonewall’s then sought-after workplace rankings. The more radical you were prepared to be in eliminating traces of biological sex from your organisation, the better your chances of getting a virtual gong. Among other things, such policies were supposed to cover what bathrooms and changing facilities trans-identified people were entitled to use (typically, almost any of them); and what words would be tolerated about trans-identified people in classrooms (typically, a heavily restricted set).”
The Office for Students review was "concerned that a chilling effect may have caused many more students and academics at the university to self-censor". The Office examined Sussex’s “Trans and Non-Binary Equality Policy Statement” in the context of the university’s legal duty to uphold freedom of speech, and also the European Convention on Human Rights.
The Office for Students’ review found four elements of the policy to be "concerning", including a requirement for course materials to "positively represent trans people and trans lives" and an assertion that "transphobic propaganda… [would] not be tolerated", and the assertion that "transphobic abuse" would be a serious disciplinary offence for staff and students.
The University of Sussex plans to legally challenge the findings. But Stock and supporters are already celebrating the victory.
Mar. 24 - NHS nurse disciplined for calling transgender paedophile ‘Mr.’
Britain still isn’t out of the gender-wang woods: UK nurse, Jennifer Melle, has brought a legal claim against the National Health Service (NHS) after being disciplined for misgendering *referring to the correct biological sex of* an unwell patient (a convicted paedophile, sent to the hospital ward from a men’s prison). While discussing with a doctor the removal of a catheter in a male patient, Melle referred to the patient as “mister” and “he”. As Melle said later, “This was a real-life medical scenario that required accurate terminology to avoid any doubt between medical professionals.”
The patient, however, was a trans-identifying male, and so attempted to call Melle out. When she refused to acquiese the patient flew into a rage, attempting to lunge at her (but he was restrained) and calling her the-N-word multiple times.
Melle later received a disciplinary letter from the Nursing Midwifery Council for breaching the Council’s Code of Conduct by inappropriately expressing her personal beliefs. (To note, the reason Melle gave the patient for refusing to use his preferred pronouns was her Christian faith. It seems unfortunate she did not simply cite medical clarity, but, it is likely hard to think when an unwell, handcuffed paedophile is screaming at you.) Melle has now launched a claim against the NHS Trust for harrassment, discrimination and human rights breaches.
Mar. 22 - Scientist forced out over gender beliefs WINS two-year legal battle
Two years ago, Peter Down was working as a scientist with British top-secret Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), developing technology to secure Britain’s defences. But he was forced out after he expressed his support for the concept of immutable biological sex.
An employment tribunal has ruled that DSTL had “clear hostile animus” toward gender-critical views, an “unblinking desire” to support gender ideology, and an intimidating atmosphere that led to the harassment of and discrimination against Down.
The tribunal criticized DSTL for its toxic bias and failure to comply with high-profile legal rulings that establish gender-critical views are a protected right under the Equality Act.
Down commented: “It’s a scientific organisation, so it shouldn’t be unnacceptable to use the phrase biological sex… And it was pretty hurtful, really, having spent 15 years for DSTL on some things which were high-security, to be [called] a security risk because you have these fairly normal, run-of-the-mill, factual beliefs about sex and genders.”
Erasing Women and Women’s Safe Spaces
Mar. 24 - Trans killer's jail rammy leaves female prison officer injured in women's wing
Unfortunately, prisons might be the hardest gender-nut to crack, despite them being the institutions housing some of the most vulnerable women.
Peter Laing, who now goes by Paris Green, injured a female staff member of the Scottish women’s prison he resides in by forcible pushing a door into her in August 2023. He was originally charged with assault, but ended up pleading guilty to a lesser charge of culpable and reckless conduct.
Laing is serving life in prison for a brutal murder, in which he and two friends invited a man to a “party” with them, tied him up, tortured him for hours, beat him so badly there was a footprint on his neck, and sexually assaulted him with a rolling pin. (Not. Our. Crimes.)
Said Susan Smith of For Women Scotland: “This illustrates the abject idiocy of the notion that violent male prisoners convicted of murdering or assaulting other men will be restrained and gentle towards women… Paris Green is clearly a danger to all women in that unit and should have been removed at once.”
Mar. 23 - Woman Jailed for Recording Hundreds of Men Using the Toilet in Aldi
John Leslie Graham makes it into this WAHF edition for the way he and his gross story are treated in these strange times.
This 100% DUDE was harming other dudes by filming them doing their dude business in the dudes’ bathroom of an Aldi grocery store. Women ostensibly were not part of this story.
Except that John Leslie Graham goes by Chloe Sunter and therefore is treated as a woman by media, court, and… well… pretty much everyone.
John tried to be super-sneaky with his peeking (using stealth methods like deleting chat histories and using his phone in incognito mode), but was busted when his sex offender manager found the photos and videos of over 800 men while making a surprise visit to his apartment (we can only imagine the squalor).
John turned on the TIM tears for the judge, pleading that going to jail would suck for him because he is so darn emotionally vulnerable. The judge said that would indeed make custody difficult but has no bearing on the charges against John, and sentenced him to 26 months in prison. We can suppose John will serve that time in a women’s prison where some very unfortunate actual women will be confined with this pervy male.
Canadians are lucky to have warrior Heather Mason fighting for them. Heather, having been formerly incarcerated herself, became an advocate for the rights of incarcerated women once she was free and now brings a strong voice against the housing of males in women’s prisons.
Female inmates at Ontario’s Grand Valley Institution (GVI) phoned Heather becuase they knew that they could trust her to listen when a sadistic killer (serving a life sentence for brutally raping and torturing a 13 year-old girl and subsequently diagnosed as “highly psychopathic”) was transferred from a male maximum-security penitentary to their campus-style, shared-living facility. Containing minimum, medium, and maximum security units, “the compound is designed to resemble a residential community, with the aim of assisting the reintegration of federally-sentenced women into society.”
Michael Williams, who now goes by Bunny Autumn Colasimone (🤢), immediately began threatening female inmates and had to be removed within days as a result.
“I am told that he arrived Thursday from Millhaven and was forcibly transferred out on Monday after a tense standoff with CSC negotiation teams and tactical units. Apparently, he had a weapon and was threatening to use it against a correctional officer,” Mason told Reduxx.
“So, he lasted on Pod 1 for 30 minutes on Thursday. He put his hair up, was posturing, cracking his knuckles, and threatening to fight the women. They all got locked down and two women called me just hours after it happened,” she added.
Males in Female Sports
Mar. 25 - World Athletics approves gender eligibility test
Theme 2! World Athletics is going to focus on biological sex as the determinant for eligibility in women’s sports by requiring athletes to do a one-time cheek swab test for a gene marker found in male Y chromosome, described as a “highly accurate proxy for biological sex”. This is a shift away from current policies that focus more on testosterone levels — allowing trans-identifying athletes who “transitioned” before puberty and asking female athletes with difference of sex development (DSD) to reduce their testosterone in order to compete.
Strangely, social media personalities, such as India Willoughby, have asserted that rule will hurt women, especially black women. The general consensus as to how they can make such a ridiculous, and seemingly racist, assertion is that when they say “black women” they are referring to males from poorer African countries who have DSDs, where people with DSDs might be more likely to be misgendered at birth.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has opened investigations in Oregon against the Portland Public School District and the Oregon School Activities Association (OSAA) pertaining to alleged violations of Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination in education programs and activities that receive federal funding.
Portland Public Schools is alleged to have allowed a male track student athlete to compete in a girls’ track and field competition and to use the girls’ locker room while female athletes were changing. The OSAA’s “gender identity participation” policy is also alleged to be in contravention of Title IX.
Mar. 24 - Hearing set for California bills banning transgender athletes from girls and women's sports
On April 1, California Assembly's Arts, Entertainment, Sports and Tourism committee will hear on two bills — one that would reverse law allowing trans athletes to participate in girls’ and women's sports (AB 844), and one that would ban trans athletes in high school girls’ sports (AB 89).
Another investigation is being launched by the federal Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights into Deerfield Public Schools District 109 in Illinois, over allegations that the District breached Title IX by forcing middle school girls to change in the same room as a trans-identifying male student.
Illinois mother Nicole Georgas brought the situation to light when she filed a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice after alleging that school administrators had attempted to force her 13-year-old daughter to change in front of a transgender student in the girls' locker room last month.
She revealed the complaint during a Board of Education meeting for Deerfield Public School District 109 last week, claiming the incident had taken place last month after her daughter had refused to change into her uniform during physical education because a biological male student had been present at the time.
The district provided a statement to Fox News Digital insisting that its actions were rooted in Illinois state law, because “The Illinois Human Rights Act prohibits all public school districts from discriminating on the basis of sex, including gender identity, and mandates that students must be permitted access to the locker room and bathroom that aligns with their gender identity."
The District added that they ensure no student is required to change in front of other students, with private change stalls available in the locker room, and other changing area options available besides the locker room.
After abandoning co-ed hockey as a child, because she felt she “couldn’t keep up” with the boys, Cassidy Carlisle found that even focusing on supposed single-sex sports could not allow her to avoid competing against males.
She was taken aback in grade seven when she had to change in the same room as a trans-identifying male student, and then aghast when she learned she would be competing against another in cross country and then Nordic skiing.
Carlisle stayed silent for a while to avoid the backlash that she feared would come from other students. But she began speaking up and on Feb. 27 went to the White House along with other female athletes to share their stories with Attorney General Pam Bondi and other state-level attorney generals. No AG’s from Maine were present, so when she returned home she continued applying pressure to local leaders, including delivering a speech in front of the Maine Capitol, petitioning Governor Janet Mills to end supporting trans-identifying males in girls’ sports.
News Impacting Society and Children
Mar. 25 - What happens when a Chicago hospital bows to federal pressure on trans care for teens
The executive order from Trump against sexual “transitioning” of minors led the Lurie hospital near downtown Chicago to cancel its gender care surgeries for youth younger than 19.
This article focuses on the perspective of a trans-identifying, 17 year-old female who has been on a gender “journey” for four years, and her mother (who refers to the teen as her “son”). The teen’s journey includes weekly testosterone injections, having all her eggs removed and frozen, breast binding, and now the next step of “treatment” was to undergo surgery to have her breasts removed.
The teen feels abandoned by the doctors who had promised to support her. The mother, Jane, feels the news of her teen having to wait longer to surgically remove body parts was nothing short of “devastating”. Jane feels she, her “son”, and the transgender community are “being threatened”.
NPR also included the story of another trans-identifying girl, 16 years-old:
Another patient, a 16-year-old boy from Chicago, had a surgery date for a double mastectomy procedure — until Lurie canceled it. NPR is not identifying him [sic] because he fears for his personal safety.
The teen felt betrayed by the cancellation, he said. He has been binding his chest for more than five years, but doing that causes rib and back pain.
Every morning, he faces a choice: bind his chest to fully "pass" as male, or skip that in order to experience a day without pain. He avoids sports because he can't breathe as well when his chest is bound. A large part of his gender dysphoria is centered on having breasts, he said.
Mar. 25 - Canada's pediatricians advised to support affirming gender-questioning six year-olds
Back to Canada (aptly nicknamed Tranada) — the nation’s Paediactric Society has published a brief paper providing guidance to pediatricians on the subject of gender-affirming practices.
There is an ever-growing body of evidence against interfering with the natural development of children and youth, including the 2024 Cass Review (“it is possible that social transition in childhood may change the trajectory of gender identity development for children with early gender incongruence”), and two recent Canadian reviews by McMaster University physicians (“We really don’t have enough evidence to say that these procedures are beneficial.”).
Yet, Canada's pediatricians have been advised by their governing society to “affirm” gender-questioning in children, even six-year-olds. The guidance asserts the importance of general pediatricians in promoting gender self-identification, because “timely access to gender-affirming care is important for youth experiencing gender dysphoria and paediatricians should be aware of the wait times that can be involved for referrals to specialized clinics.” The guidance disconnects normal sexual development from biological sex differences by stripping sexed language. For example, menstruation is referred to as “monthly vaginal bleeding”.
The paper is based around 2 vingettes - one about a six year-old male child who wears dresses and wants to be called Eva, and one about a 12 year-old female who takes part in “stereotypically male activities”, identifies as a boy, and feels uncomfortable about the development of breasts and “monthly vaginal bleeding.” How should a pediatrician handle such cases?
In the case of the six year-old: “You provide the family with appropriate resources to talk about gender, connect them to a local parent support group and describe the many benefits that an affirming social environment has on gender-diverse children and youth,” the paper reads.
And for the 12 year-old: “Recognizing that the local wait time to access a specialized gender-care clinic is over six months, you explore options for menstrual suppression (including hormone blockers) and discuss other forms of care to support his mental and social transition (binding, packing, etc).”
Go, Tranada, go.
Here is some WAHF-endorsed guidance for pediatricians and parents:
Mar. 21 - Sex and gender ID conflation ‘isn’t helpful’ for data collection, Streeting says
Wrapping up Theme 2 for the week, we return to Britain.
Previous WAHF editions have noted Wes Streeting’s growing concern over the implications of changing (even scrubbing) records to support gender self-ID. Now Britains Health Secretary has told the Commons that the “conflation of sex and gender identity isn’t helpful both in terms of data analysis but also recognising health inequalities”.
His comments followed the report of an independent review led by Alice Sullivan, a professor of sociology at University College London (UCL), which is now being studied by Ministers.
From a GP agreeing to change the documented identity of a baby because its mother was raising it in the “gender” of her choice to male sex offenders being recorded by the police as “women”, data and official statistics have been “corrupted” by extreme gender ideology, a report found this week...
Streeting has also ordered an immediate ban on NHS changing children’s gender sex on medical records. Sullivan’s report flagged that there is currently no minimum age at which the record of a child’s sex can be changed. Streeting called this practice “‘completely wrong’ and [said] that ‘children's safety must come first’ after the government-commissioned review highlighted ‘serious safeguarding concerns’.”
So many battles are being fought across the world in this culture war. Thankfully, we see signs of turning tides in many institutions in the West. But each battle is waged on local turf by local actors, so the results are inconsistent. And Canada and prisons seem like gender-wang strongholds. The upcoming federal election will play a role in how Canada responds in the near future. Onward and upward.
Correction: Under the headline about World Athletics, the last sentence should read:
"The general consensus as to how they can make such a ridiculous, and seemingly racist, assertion is that when they say “black women” they are referring to *men* from poorer African countries, where people with DSDs might be more likely to be misgendered at birth."
The original post said "women from poorer African countries, but this was incorrect -- the incoherent assertion made by India and others is believed to be that biological males from poorer African countries who have DSDs might be identified as female at birth, and thus grow up competing in (and dominating) female sports, and thus stand to lose from having to have a cheek swab test that identifies them as being male.
Keep up the good work!!