Amnesty

[Thingybob]

www.amnesty.org.uk/young-trans-people

Has this been posted before? And how does that square with fighting FGM on one hand whilst sending healthy, confused YP (mainly females) off on a path of irreversible physical changes on the other?

They've lied; there is no medical requirement for transition.
They can't even explain how their demands would help trans people, who already have the rights to live free from discrimination.
What they don't have is the right to trample over other people. Same as the rest of us.

I can't think of another issue that provokes so much cognitive dissonance, or any human rights campaign that actually removed rights from another vulnerable group.

It's baffling that Amnesty don't seem to understand human rights.

Human rights enable different groups to participate equally in society.

My ability to use a supermarket is not compromised because I am not eligible for a blue badge, but using Amnesty's logic my rights are compromised if I can't use all the parking spaces.

That reminds me to add a ‘charities’ column to my ‘Nono’ boycott spreadsheet.

Amnesty seems to have been struggling for some time with deciding how much it should insert very western perspectives into it's international action. And not unreasonably, it's a difficult question.

But I think they came down some time ago on the side of embodying them rather than taking a restrained view, and they are just carrying on with that now. Arguably that affects how they are seen internationally.

Wasn't Amnesty supposed to be about freeing people who are in prison for thought crimes?

Coyoacan

It seems less so now. There seems to be more focus on pushing for human rights generally, and that seems to mean a pretty western vision of human rights.

And they post this which just had so many language issues for me.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/10/its-intersex-awareness-day-here-are-5-myths-we-need-to-shatter/

Amnesty has, in the past, supported separate toilet facilities for women and children in refugee camps. Is that going to change too?

Doula UK anyone?