VANCOUVER — A British Columbia nurse has been suspended and fined nearly $94,000 for what a disciplinary panel said were “discriminatory and derogatory statements” about transgender people.

The B.C. College of Nurses and Midwives says a disciplinary panel has issued a decision against Amy Hamm, suspending her for one month, while also ordering her to pay the college costs and disbursements within two years.

The panel said in its verdict in March that Hamm committed professional misconduct for making 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 college says Hamm has filed an appeal of the discipline order in B.C. Supreme Court, and the decisi

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