"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.

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https://www.amnesty.org.uk/knowledge-hub/all-resources/like-a-snowball/

"Over the past ten years the situation for LGBTI+ people in the UK has deteriorated. In particular there has been an organised backlash against trans people’s rights starting in 2017/18. This report maps the gender critical movement in the UK and the role of the media in normalising anti-trans rhetoric.

Our research shows that an organised gender critical movement emerged as a response to proposals to reform the Gender Recognition Act in 2017/18 and has gained huge influence in public and political discourse since then.

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.

Four outlets examined in the research published 17,000 articles between January 2020 and April 2025, an average of 9 articles per day and ‘gender critical’ framing became common over this period of time while the voices of trans people have been almost completely absent."

Yup, I remember all the letter writing campaigns for political prisoners I took part in during the 80s into the 90s…can’t believe what they’ve become.

Me too @terryleather i used to write letters in Spanish.

Lol

Funny they should use the word snow, when they're one of the many organisations who have, and continue to, snow the public with there entirely made up genderwang bollocks. 😂

What an amazing coincidence that objections and articles rose during the same period of time when Stonewall et al started to campaign for men to have access to women’s spaces and admitted they wanted to remove all sex-based rights from the EA.

And speaking of Stonewall, many, many media outlets have already tried consulting with trans supporting groups. The advice they received was illegal and so biased that it ended up being reported on.

I’ve long thought we’re more of an avalanche than a mere snowball though.

Bloody wish they were!

Indeed. Name 1, just 1, right that 'trans people' don't have. Ffs.

You can't protect the rights of people you can't define.

Regardless of what anybody posting on this board thinks, it's organisations like Amnesty that have made 'trans' and 'trans rights' impossible to define and therefore defend.

LGBTI+ ??!

what's the I?
did it kill the Q?

FML

I = Intersex. Inaccurate terms for people with Differences of Sex Development (DSDs). Crowbarred in against the wishes of many people with DSDs in order to bolster the trans argument that sex is a spectrum

Maybe the voices identify as silent?

Amnesty have been totally captured for a while. I considered doing one of their online learning courses about women's rights recently but decided against it when I saw the blurb described transwomen as the most oppressed group of women. Yeah, that's right Amnesty, men are the most oppressed type of woman 😂

We do have a weird situation where the right-wing media report negatively on gender ideology to the verge of actual transphobia in some cases (I say that as a fully GC feminist. I think some articles in the Daily Mail for example don't even bother to hide their repulsion towards individual trans people, some of whom have not done anything wrong and may be vulnerable and misguided rather than nefarious)

Then on the other side, the Guardian and many of our most influential institutions (the BBC, the NHS, universities, government departments) are wholly captured. Amnesty can't have been trawling these institutions' publications.

It's like the two 'sides' are living in separate universes

Amnesty can do one, they only care about men's rights, plainly they don't consider actual women to be human, so no human rights for us! No sane woman should ever give them another penny.

That's impressive Eresh...alas mine were handwritten in English as I don't know how to type let along speak/write Spanish! 😄

I suppose that should really be didn't know how to type as that's exactly what I'm doing now...

I know this report frames it as a bad thing but, looking past that, how wonderful it is that the impact of so many women from all walks of life working together towards a shared feminist goal has been recognised.

Thank you Amnesty for appreciating how much we've managed to achieve in such a short amount of time.

Amnesty doesn't seem to have considered that from around 2012 everything went undercover. By stealth so much happened, so much capture. It looks like loads happened from 2020 but only because we were trying to shift massive boulders of capture and misinformation. Up until that point we were shut down.

The Critic has finally put this article online

https://archive.ph/XsUIf

https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/may-2026/the-trans-war-on-reality/

It's a timely antidote to Amnesty's report.

As Biggs and North conclude in their study: “If the extent of fatal violence suffered by transgender people in Britain is considered to be an epidemic, then the same epithet applies to the fatal violence inflicted by transgender people.”

Like Amnesty gives a shit about painting an accurate picture.

This all day. Those charities run on £3m a year and they’ve achieved significant legislative change and such public awareness their minds have actually changed. Better than any political party.

In 2020 these charities didn’t exist and Stonewall was getting £12 mill a year.

We’re used to doing hard work and being underpaid for it.

By pure coincidence there was an Amnesty International fundraiser shaking a bucket for donations at the train station I went through earlier. I scowled at him. 😂

I fell out of love with Amnesty in the pre-digital age. One of their supporter campaigns in the late nineties was to write letters pleading for clemency for people on death row in the USA. I received my first task and it was for a man who had raped and murdered an elderly woman. They described his crime in the paperwork. He had learning difficulties (I can’t recall the exact term used in the USA) but I just couldn’t put pen to paper for him…

I don’t think I believe in the death penalty but there was just something in the way that Amnesty expected me to accept that act and go into action on his behalf.

It's a strange title.

Snowball sounds sort of cheerful and bouncy.

Do they mean the cocktail?

Ooh. I suppose this.

I mean they’re not wrong