"Like a snowball: the growth and impact of the gender critical movement in the UK" - if you wanted a very good reason to never give Amnesty a penny, this is it. But a lot of people will read and believe.

I'm so disappointed in Amnesty. As someone who supported them since I was a teen in the Amnesty group at school, it's so sad and infuriating to see what they've become.

Yes it is, Duane. I really thought they were doing good work years ago.

When asked (by me) whether Amnesty supports toilets for women in developing countries, Mr Amnesty Chugger was happy to preen and say "of course". I then asked him why Amnesty didn't support toilets for women in the UK. He had no answer.

And trans issues should be ‘top political priorities’ but also it’s a problem that they are?

It’s obviously written by an activist.

So there’s simultaneously too little coverage of trans issues and also too much?

And here was me thinking it was women's voices that weren't heard when our spaces were handed over to these men without us being asked so much as how we felt about it or how it might affect us.

I'm so disappointed in Amnesty. As someone who supported them since I was a teen in the Amnesty group at school, it's so sad and infuriating to see what they've become.

Between January 2020 and April 2025, media coverage of issues about trans people has been excessively high compared to the size of the trans population

I would hazard a guess that this is because a small number of trans-identified men have been making a huge, and disproportionate, negative impact on women, who are, collectively, over 50% of the population

and

The detriment caused by said men is disproportionate in its impact due to the nature of said actions (see urine protests, threatening women with rape and decapitation, doxxing and hounding people out of their jobs, etc. )

And, despite these things, media coverage has been nowhere near proportionate to the seriousness of some of these actions.

Key findings
• Between January 2020 and April 2025, media coverage of issues about trans people has been excessively high compared to the size of the trans population, their role in society, and public interest in these topics.
• Across the four outlets, a total of 17,000 articles were published between January 2020 and April 2025, an average of 264 articles per month, or 9 per day.
• Most media reports about trans people have a negative sentiment, while trans people are hardly seen in stories. When they do appear, it is as criminals or murder victims.
• For each year analysed, the UK Prime Minister, the leader of the opposition, and the Scottish First Minister appear consistently, suggesting that issues of ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ have been elevated to top political priorities.
• Since 2017, a diverse and coordinated GC movement has appeared in the UK. Of the 51 organisations Amnesty International UK mapped, only 3 were established before 2017.
• Except for three registered charities, Sex Matters, FiLiA and LGB Alliance, well over half of the groups mapped are informal (32), followed by registered companies (17, one of which is now dissolved).
• Analysis of available accounts for FiLiA, Sex Matters and LGB Alliance for the financial years 2019 to 2024 shows a combined expenditure of £3.6 million.

From the report:

The first part presents the findings of a Corpus Linguistics Analysis into how the British press typically presents issues related to trans people, and whose voices are given prominence. The Corpus Linguistics Analysis considers the reports of four major outlets, the Guardian, the Sun, the Telegraph and the Times & Sunday Times between January 2020 and April 2025. The methodology is explained in full in the technical explainer.

The second part is a mapping of GC actors based on analysis of websites, social media accounts, press mentions and records held by the Charity Commission and Companies House.

I’m not entirely sure how anyone could look at news pieces since 2017 and comment on the absence of trans voices. Constant presence maybe. What outlets and publications did they review? Certainly not the BBC and the Guardian.

Do not dehumanise trans people, e.g. by asking gotcha questions such as ‘can women have a penis’.

That's a "gotcha question"? In the olden days it used to be called "a question".

Edited to add: No, I take that back. In the olden days, that wasn't even a question!

OK Mr Menno, here's your starter for ten, to the tune of Madonna's Like A Virgin:
🎶'Like a snowball...'
😁

while the voices of trans people have been almost completely absent

Are you kidding me?