On this episode of the Ezra Levin Show, host David Menzies takes on the far-left progressive lunatics who took part in the International Women's Day march in Toronto on Friday, March 13th, 2019.
00:09:14.700And you might be familiar with Ms. Hamm's story, and it's a hell of a story.
00:09:20.220But for those who aren't, Amy, you got into a bit of hot water regarding the trans community and their allies.
00:09:29.500What exactly set off that chain of events?
00:09:32.860The big one was, years ago now, sponsoring an iHeart JK Rowling billboard after the writer came out in support of women's sex-based rights.
00:09:45.020So, that led to an onslaught of public complaints to my regulator to attempt to have me fired from my nursing job.
00:10:03.940Your job is under fire as a healthcare professional, not because of any incompetence or malpractice, but because you committed the heinous crime of wrong think.
00:10:16.760Yes, I've never had a patient complaint.
00:10:19.620I've never had an issue in my workplace with performance.
00:10:23.640And the college that's persecuting me laid out in their opening arguments that this is 100% nothing to do with my workplace conduct.
00:10:35.240It's entirely the out-of-work conduct and the things that I say and do and write while I'm in my own private time.
00:10:42.380And this battle with your employer, it's still ongoing.
00:10:45.940I know you can't get into all the details, but it's a little terrifying, Amy, that just because you were part of the billboard campaign, I love JK Rowling, and of course that billboard was vandalized in day one and taken down,
00:11:01.100that this could put you in an economic penalty box, if you will, why is it?
00:11:09.900We see this increasingly in society, that everyone seems to be bending the knee to radical transgenderism.
00:11:19.420I would argue, and I know I'm going to offend some people, that once upon a time, maybe even 10 years ago,
00:11:24.960these people would probably be in a mental health institution instead.
00:11:31.100It's literally the tail wag in the dog.
00:11:37.640That's a very big question, of course.
00:11:39.900But I think that there is a small number of tyrannical, woke persons that have managed to get a chokehold on every institution, every political party.
00:11:53.140And it's this, most of us don't agree with these people and with the delusional belief system that they hold.
00:11:59.600But through a campaign of fear and intimidation and trying to cancel people, get them fired,
00:12:04.960they've managed to essentially run our culture and our government.
00:12:11.040And so that's, yeah, that's why we're fighting.
00:12:13.240And I'm here today wanting to talk about free speech, because as much as I have been an advocate for women's rights,
00:12:20.600I've also become an advocate for free speech, because I've recognized if you can't speak and a lot of people don't want me to have the ability to speak at all.
00:12:33.400So, sorry, I don't know if you can cut that out.
00:18:12.580You know, the positive thing, I haven't lost hope entirely in Canada.
00:18:17.820And I also am reminded that in 2013, former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a conservative,
00:18:25.560he actually axed very similar legislation about hate speech because he felt that it was so vague that it was intended to censor political speech.
00:18:38.860And it's looking as though Pierre Poliev will be our next prime minister.
00:18:44.480And I'm hopeful that he will do the same thing.
00:18:49.460Well, Amy, you are a very brave woman.
00:18:52.400Can I call you a woman here on International Women's Day?
00:19:08.700And for the past five years, she has been advocating for criminalized women on a variety of prison issues,
00:19:16.820including segregation, strip searching, and the issue of prisoners transferring from male prisons to women's prisons.
00:19:26.020Her advocacy on this latter issue connected her to a group of women who formed a grassroots organization focused on maintaining women's rights to single-sex spaces called Canadian Women's Sex-Based Rights, a.k.a. Cause Bar.
00:19:46.540And, you know, folks, Heather used to be a convict.
00:19:50.440And she's gone from behind bars to being one of the, I guess, bravest feminists out there.
00:19:58.180She's standing up for some of the most disenfranchised women.
00:20:02.780That would be female prisoners who now have to endure, thanks to Justin Trudeau, men going, it's just saying, I identify as a female, no surgery, no hormones, nothing.
00:20:16.540You can really have 350-pound bearded bubba saying, I'm a chick, and so be it.
00:20:23.860Heather, what is the latest on this ongoing farce?
00:20:28.000It's more than a farce because it's dangerous to real women behind bars, is it not?
00:20:34.720And I'm sure you read about the recent Luca Minata, who is identifying as a woman and going by Violet, and how they transferred him to medium security so that he's able to live out his fantasy of being a woman.
00:21:51.000And, you know, I find that it's most common with women.
00:21:53.240They don't want to stand up and speak out and they go along with whatever they're told to go along with.
00:21:59.360And it's like it outrages me so much that we're literally fighting other women to not have our spaces taken from us, to not have our safety and dignity compromised.
00:22:33.300And they were screaming trans women are real women.
00:22:37.440Some of them were crying just for the audacity of asking questions.
00:22:41.480And yet he's clobbering real women on the pitch.
00:22:45.240We went to Windsor to a woman's shelter where Cody Detremont started to identify as Desiree Anderson, got into the shelter, was then subsequently charged by Windsor police for sexual assault.
00:23:02.160Cody slash Desiree is now identifying as a cat.
00:23:06.340I wish I was making that up, but I'm not.
00:23:08.980And again, when we went to that shelter, two 20-something employees came out to my cameraman and I and started, you know, chanting trans women are real women.
00:23:20.660And yet I would say if you believe that rubbish slogan, this isn't diversity, equity, and inclusion.
00:24:39.520But also it's, so in order to get funding, then you need to be able to tick off all the requirements to obtain that funding.
00:24:48.460So if public safety or whoever passes policy saying that you need to be inclusive and that trans women are women, in order for you to get that funding, you need to go along with what they say.
00:24:58.860And that's where our main problem is with our institutions.
00:25:23.280You really realize that everything in life is about money.
00:25:26.100And it's sad because then we are harming women, we're harming children, we're harming the most vulnerable women in society, which are in prison, all because you want to line your pockets.
00:25:37.960And, you know, I think the first time I met you, it was at that Kitchener female penitentiary and a couple of the guards came out and they were more concerned that we were on the grassy berm.
00:25:50.840I mean, we weren't trespassing, we weren't going to try to break into a prison, for goodness sake.
00:25:55.180And they even called the cops and a police officer came along.
00:26:24.860What can we do in the future, at least when it comes to female prisons, in reversing this ludicrous, you know, stipulation that a man merely has to say, I'm a woman and you are in with the real woman?
00:26:42.340So step one is changing the public's opinion.
00:26:44.780Well, really, it's about educating them, because a lot of people are unaware of what is going on.
00:26:49.860And our government officials don't care until the public is outraged and then they push for them to make changes.
00:26:57.540So, like, Pierre started talking about these, like, things recently.
00:27:01.520And he did try to backpedal and pass the ball to, like, provincial and municipal.
00:27:18.520And one last thing, to show you how ludicrous this policy is, if, say, God forbid, you were arrested and convicted again, you got a sentence of a couple of years.
00:27:29.480If you said, I identify as a man, I want to do my time at Millhaven, request denied, right?
00:27:37.400Yes, because of overriding health and safety concerns, because I'd be raped in a men's prison.
00:27:43.520So all this bullcrap of you are what you identify as, it goes out the window once the rubber of reality hits the road.
00:27:53.980The idea that prison guards would be on a 24-7 duty preventing a real woman from getting gang raped.
00:28:00.960That just shows you, I think, Heather, the utter hypocrisy of this.
00:28:14.340She's a Calgary-based writer and is openly lesbian.
00:28:19.520Eva explores the impacts of gender ideology on women, children, and society as a whole for publications such as Gender Dissent, The Distance, and Redux.
00:28:33.120She is a writer from Calgary, and you explore the impacts of gender ideology on women, children, and society as a whole for several diverse publications.
00:28:46.220Eva, what exactly does that mean, the impact of gender ideology?
00:28:51.040It means that I explore the way that gender ideology harms women and children, so through policy, just through culture, the ways that women lose our single-sex spaces, the way that kids are taught nonsense in schools.
00:29:03.000I do a lot of research into prisons, for example, things like that.
00:29:06.520And you're open by the fact that you are lesbian, correct?
00:29:10.320And I want to bring that point up, Eva, just for one reason.
00:29:14.740There are some organizations in that community, Gays Against Groomers, LGB without the T, meaning, you know, lesbians, gays, and bisexuals who don't want anything to do with the trans agenda.
00:29:28.540And I think these are the smart members of the community because they realize that a young person who might grow up to be a gay man, a young person that might grow up to be a lesbian, right now there's this almost, it's almost like a fetish to say, oh, that's a boy trapped in a girl's body, a girl trapped in a boy's body.
00:29:49.060And they go through a transition that is unnecessary and later on regrettable.
00:29:55.680That hits really close to me because as I've written and spoken a lot, I feel that if I was a kid today, because I was a tomboy, I just feel like I would be the perfect candidate for that kind of thing to be identified as a boy and transitioned.
00:30:08.180Because I know that if I had been told I could be a boy or I should be a boy, I would have like hung on to that idea and like not let go.
00:30:14.560And it particularly hits home to me because a lot of the steps that they put children on, puberty blockers, hormone surgeries, it makes them infertile.
00:30:21.680And I actually would really like to start a family and have a baby and that's something I've been pursuing.
00:30:26.920And so to me, I always think of like they would have taken that away from me.
00:30:30.260Of course, it's not the only issue, but that's just, that's what they're doing to young girls like me, taking that future away from them.
00:31:24.120You're very outspoken about this, of course.
00:31:26.180First, why aren't there more members of your community, more lesbians, gays, bisexuals, that are saying, you know what, we're not signed up for the radical trans agenda.
00:38:02.720I don't know how these women can call themselves feminists.
00:38:05.800Well, I'll challenge you on one point.
00:38:07.200The government is talking about it in terms of the Justin Trudeau liberals are responsible for males just saying,
00:38:15.020I identify as a female, I'm bang, you're in the King's, sorry, the Kitchener penitentiary for women.
00:38:22.160This from our fake feminist prime minister.
00:38:26.300But it's all being done, Megan, in the scope of diversity, equity and inclusion.
00:38:34.860But I would say if you're putting men into a female prison or a female shelter and into female sports, that's not diversity, equity and inclusion.
00:38:50.380And I would also say that it's actually exclusion.
00:38:53.140Because in particular, when we're talking about girls' sports and women's sports, they're now being excluded from their own sports because men are competing instead.
00:39:04.440And men are inherently, mostly going to be better athletically than women are.
00:39:09.880They're stronger, they're faster, their bodies are different.
00:39:12.640This is no insult to female athletes who are incredible.
00:39:16.660But girls are losing out to opportunities, to scholarships, to championships, because these men, I mean, you covered that volleyball tournament where there was like, what, five men?
00:39:29.220It was Seneca College and Centennial College and five of the 12 starters, there was three for Seneca, two for Centennial, were biological men.
00:39:41.520I mean, I went to see a female varsity volleyball game.
00:39:45.120Instead, we saw a sausage fest, for goodness sakes.
00:39:47.600And I can see a day, Megan, in which, you know, in our lifetime, there will be the male varsity team and then there will be the male B varsity team.
00:40:02.580These will be all the loser males that can't crack the male A team.
00:40:07.760And that male B team was that team that once upon a time used to be called the female team.
00:40:15.360And I mean, I wanted to speak to your point about misogyny, because I think any man who would do this is the poorest excuse for a male on the planet.
00:40:32.340He knows that there's some girl who's going to be sitting on the sidelines, who is going to miss out on a scholarship so that he can get it inside.
00:40:38.760He knows he's mediocre because, as you said, you know, he didn't make the boys team or the men's team.
00:40:44.400You know, these men don't care at all about women and girls and what they're doing to women and girls.
00:40:56.740But more to the point, Megan, who do you have more contempt for?
00:41:00.720That gender bending loser male pretending to be a female so he can play varsity sports or those in authority, Volleyball Canada, Volleyball Ontario, the deans of these colleges, the Ontario Athletic Association, the human rights commissions and tribunals who all collectively say, this is a good thing.
00:41:27.100We stand by these trans women, which are really men pretending to be women.
00:41:32.020So, again, who do you have more contempt for, the individual athletes gaming the system or those allowing them to game the system?
00:41:41.440But, you know, these are the people in power who have the power and have the responsibility to say no, to protect these sports, to protect the girls playing these sports.
00:41:54.800You know, these are the people in charge.
00:41:56.300These are the people who are making these decisions.
00:41:58.000I mean, men identifying as women, that's been going on for at least a few decades now.
00:42:04.680But it's only recently that it's become such a big problem.
00:42:07.600And that's because the policies have changed.
00:42:18.260You know, we could have said, OK, you wear a dress, whatever, do your thing.
00:42:22.360We never had to go so far as to change the laws and the policies and to start letting men compete as women in female sports, letting men into women's prisons, letting men into girls change rooms, for goodness sakes.
00:42:35.580I mean, somebody should have said no a long time ago and they kept saying yes and they're still saying yes.
00:42:41.860So it is their responsibility and they are the ones who are accountable.
00:42:46.200I mean, if you want to wear a dress, pretend you're a member of the other gender and you're just living your life in suburbia, not affecting anyone.
00:42:59.820But the moment you start taking away spots, like you said, taking away scholarships, sexually abusing women in a shelter or prison facility, that is completely offside.
00:43:11.700Last question, Megan, you have so many inexplicable haters out there.
00:43:22.000You're one of the bravest women I know.
00:43:25.000What is it that motivates you not to bend the knee, not to surrender to all these terrible haters out there?
00:43:34.000You know, I when I started speaking out about this, which was, you know, almost 10 years ago, it wasn't because this issue affected me personally.
00:43:43.040A lot of these haters will say, you know, how does this affect you?
00:43:56.600It has to do with our constitutional rights that we're losing, our right to freedom of expression, our right to say that men aren't women, which, you know, Justin Trudeau is trying to criminalize.
00:44:06.260So, you know, it's about telling the truth and it's about my integrity as a person.
00:45:34.840Indeed, folks, you know, there's a fictional DC comic book character called Power Girl.
00:45:39.280I would argue that powerlifter April Hutchinson is a real-life version of Power Girl fighting back against a woke, pathetic legion of supervillains.
00:45:53.120Well, folks, I'm with powerlifter April Hutchinson.
00:47:30.380I mean, you have these, what do you call, captured organizations and federations.
00:47:34.900I mean, in my case, I was dealing with a biased board member, right, where they had either a trans child or a trans member of their family
00:47:43.700and basically had their personal agenda and made me an example and basically said, you know,
00:47:49.140women, if you speak up, you're going to get banned, just like April Hutchinson did.
00:47:52.500April, is there something about Canadian and provincial sports federations that they don't play ball when it comes to the international regulator?
00:48:04.440I can tell you, going back to 2020, to its credit, World Rugby put a rule in,
00:48:10.740if you are a man, you cannot play with females.
00:48:13.640And yet here we have Ash Davis with the blessing of Rugby Ontario and Rugby Canada playing against other females.
00:48:21.320World Aquatics introduced an other category for transgender swimmers at the World Championships in Berlin last October.
00:49:33.040This is where these transgenders are not getting through because they are not providing these medical records.
00:49:38.740You need, like I said on Megyn Kelly yesterday, you need a diagnosis by a doctor basically stating that you have gender dysphoria.
00:49:44.920Because otherwise, any male, like you can walk in tomorrow and crush records and then go back to identifying as whatever you want the next day.
00:49:52.920But you know, April, I think there's an easier solution, and it's all about inclusion.
00:49:57.660If you're a man pretending to be a woman or vice versa, and you want to lift weights, play rugby, go swimming, you name it,