Vancouver-area nurse, National Post columnist, and co-founder of Canadian Women's Sex-Based Rights (caWsbar). Amy lost her nursing position after years of disciplinary proceedings for publicly affirming that biological sex is real — and has filed human rights complaints challenging the use of professional regulatory bodies against gender-critical speech in Canada.
Gender Critical Story Hour Podcast
A podcast co-hosted by Amy Hamm and filmmaker Esme Vee. The show examines news, culture, and personal stories at the intersection of gender identity ideology and women's rights, drawing on Amy's background in both journalism and nursing to bring clinical and regulatory literacy to the conversation alongside long-form interviews and documentary-style storytelling. It has built a substantial following within the gender-critical community in Canada and internationally, and has provided sustained, informed coverage of Amy's own BC College of Nurses and Midwives disciplinary proceedings — making a complex regulatory case legible to a general audience in real time.
National Post & Reduxx Columnist
Amy's column work for the National Post and Reduxx has focused on the intersection of free expression and professional accountability for gender-critical speech in Canada, including the use of nursing regulatory bodies to discipline speech made entirely outside a clinical context. Her journalism has helped establish that what happened to her is not an isolated incident but part of a pattern in which professional licensing bodies have been used to suppress lawful political and personal expression — a pattern with significant implications for the rights of all Canadians who hold gender-critical views.
Biography
Amy Eileen Hamm is a journalist, nurse, and co-founder of Canadian Women's Sex-Based Rights (caWsbar). She holds a Bachelor of Journalism from Thompson Rivers University and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of British Columbia, and has written for the National Post, Reduxx, and Quillette, among other publications. She co-hosts the podcast Gender Critical Story Hour with filmmaker Esme Vee.
Amy's case became one of the most significant free expression and professional regulatory cases in Canadian women's rights advocacy. In 2020, she co-sponsored an "I ♥ JK Rowling" billboard in Vancouver — an act of personal expression made entirely outside her professional role as a nurse. The BC College of Nurses and Midwives launched an investigation, and years of disciplinary proceedings followed. In August 2025, a panel suspended Amy for one month and ordered her to pay nearly $94,000 in costs. She was subsequently terminated by Vancouver Coastal Health.
Amy has since filed human rights complaints with the BC Human Rights Tribunal against both the College and her former employer, arguing she was discriminated against for holding gender-critical beliefs. The case raises a question that Canadian law has not yet resolved — and that UK courts have answered clearly in favour of gender-critical expression: whether professional regulatory bodies may be used to punish opinions formed and expressed entirely outside the workplace.
Throughout the proceedings, Amy continued to write, speak publicly, and co-host her podcast. She is one of the clearest examples in Canada of what women risk when they state plainly that biological sex is real — and one of the most important voices in the fight to ensure that risk does not define the limits of what Canadian women are permitted to say.
