A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK says Amnesty who claim over 50% are Gender Critical groups

Has anyone got an archived copy? I'm linked with one of the named orgs and I want to take this further.

I loathe Amnesty now. What a fiasco they have become.

I hope those listed take legal action.

Can you imagine getting a letter from Beiras Place and JKR's lawyers?!! Somebody did an oopsie- better hope it was not approved by Amnesty's board!

That you did!

It appears that (as many of us have suspected for years) Amnesty believes certain kinds of humans don’t deserve rights: women, girls and those who are proudly same-sex attracted. I hope donors from those groups are taking note.

I called it https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/2075638852111249643

Amnesty have now removed the report from online. Seems they have received a number of letters requesting evidence from the many women's groups they libelled (without evidence of what they lied about could be very expensive)

From X 'newsandpics'
'The link to the report appears to have now been removed, possibly because Amnesty realised that calling for removal of charitable status and funding met the criteria for serious financial loss required for a successful libel action.Too late and the damage is done. The board probably needs to publish an apology, an explanation and set aside funds to deal with claims. Those of us who have supported Amnesty financially over the years are also due an apology. Board members should consider their positions.'

Fuck all is the only answer.

Besides everything else, this concept of "anti-rights" is just so... childish. Anti-rights?! It sounds like something from a Year 10 kid's half-hearted AI effort at a Humanities or ethics essay.

"Human rights are interconnected and mutually reinforcing. When the rights of one group are restricted, protections for others can also be weakened, even where the effects are not immediately visible."

I'm afraid I stopped marking here, Shaun. Your use of AI is fairly obvious, and your logic very flawed. Step back and think harder. Yes, in an abstract, ideological sense, human rights may be "mutually-reinforcing". But you appear to take this in a rather too literal and absolutist way. For example, in practical terms, in order for one group to have particular rights often needs some kind of concession from another group (think of single-sex spaces, or resources set aside for disabled people only). Go back and try again, aiming for a more nuanced understanding of this complex issue - you're capable of far better than this rhetoric.

Hoping JKR posts about it so that Amnesty can beclown themselves further in public.

Article in the Scotland section of the Times:
https://www.thetimes.com/article/c6c2d068-1a10-4764-bd0b-04db9b7b848f?shareToken=c3fea802840237eb8cd6d6134af4c87d&ver=article

Your name will also go on the list!

Clearly.
And Parliament.

You know all those MPs who could change the law but also like to virtue signal because they know damn well that it's a vote loser because it infringes on the rights of too many other groups to replace sex with gender and no fucker actually believes this shit in practice.

They care less about the basic rights of those people than they do the terrible plight of entitled British men who want to use women’s toilets.

Well in some countries they will lack basic rights - counties where gender stereotypes are rigourousky enforced

and women suffer because those same stereotypes tend to work against women

but at least women can wear a frock and make it that way inclined. I don’t think that’s much to be happy about really !

How is this a priority for them, anyway? What human rights do trans people lack?

Is the Supreme Court on their list of anti-rights organisations?

"Wearing our arguments " and "wearing our experiences." Clear as day.

So, Stonewall, Mermaids, Amnesty... who was it that first said that gender ideology destroys everything it touches? (although Mermaids has only itself to blame...)

I think there's a large pool of virtue signallers with no money and a small pool of activists who do something who have money. And there's lots of people chasing this small pool.

If you are a T activist and see competition from the LGB Alliance and Stonewall/Mermaids etc in trouble, are you going to pick Amnesty over them?

This is the issue for Amnesty in chasing this narrow demographic. They are competing against other charities who are more focussed on the rights of the group they are targeting. In other words they are not at the front of the queue for potential donors, they are somewhat further down the line in terms of priority.

Likewise for piggies backing other omni-cause causes.

Amnesty effectively ends up being just another omni-cause rather than having it's own distinct agenda and purpose. I do wonder how sustainable that is as a financial model.

Indeed it is all about a financial model and not it's core values and promotion of human rights. You have to understand human rights to promote them and to get grassroots support because it has to connect.

All they are doing is getting hits on social media. And the trouble with social media is people think they've done their bit of they've shared rather than doing anything more.

The bloody nerve to imply that we're the ones reinforcing gender stereotypes. 😡

Edited for grammar 🙄

Thing is, it appeals to a reasonably sized group which is reachable through eg turning up at Pride events. They don't have the money to spend on social media. Students (the other easy to target in person group) don't have the spare cash. So I can see why they are going to keep attending Pride etc and make themselves as pro trans as possible to make them so popular with the LGBT+ crowd.

Adoption agencies seem to have been using a similar strategy. The agency that recruited the couple who murdered baby Preston in Blackpool are on record in their annual report bemoaning the fact that their recruitment of prospective adopters from the LGBT+ community had fallen from the previous year's 24%. Nearly a quarter! Again I believe it's partly because it's an easy to target group.

So charities etc are all chasing this group. They have higher than average disposable income and want to donate/use businesses and organisations whose values they like.

They've somehow co-opted the radical feminist view that gender is a social construct and strict gender roles are misogynistic, and are claiming that we now believe the opposite. Radical feminists, TERFs, gender critical people have opposed strict gender roles for many decades! It's an inherent element of radical feminism, not trans rights activism.