"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.

[SingleSexSpacesInSchools]

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."

Its gonna be a long hot summer of rage.

True. But when is it not!

Losing their shit every time they are thwarted, which they will continue to be, because they are on the hopelessly, irredeemably, undeniably Wrong Side of History.

Forevah

I doubt that Charli's list is accurate, but it's also worth pointing out that some of the organisations and people mentioned are gender conservative, not gender critical.

If organisations like Amnesty took the trouble to understand what gender critical feminists actually believe they would do a better job of defending the rights of the people they claim to be supporting.

They'll thcream and thcream and thcream until they're sick.

I have completely lost patience with them. I used to be a gentle, tolerant type. I'm now so far over on ODFOD side that I can barely see my former self.

The rainbow angle seems to be Chinese Whispers or deliberate misinformation, all reports I could find referred to xenophobic comments by Navalny. Amnesty later reinstated his status and apologized.

"Amnesty International has stripped the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny of his "prisoner of conscience" status after it says it was "bombarded" with complaints highlighting xenophobic comments that he has made in the past and not renounced. A spokesman for the human rights organisation in Moscow told the BBC that he believed the wave of requests to "de-list" Navalny was part of an "orchestrated campaign" to discredit Vladimir Putin's most vocal critic and "impede" Amnesty's calls for his release from custody." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56181084 (2021)

"A spokesman for Amnesty International told Reuters the original decision to revoke Navalny’s status was a “mistake”, explaining that the organisation had not taken the evolution in Navalny’s views into account and calling him “an unyielding advocate for human rights and freedoms”." https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/post-amnesty-decision-about-alexei-navalny-misses-key-context-2024-02-23/ (2024)

Yes, it’s interesting how many issues in the world adversely affect women purely because if their female sex.

On the one hand Amnesty claims to advocate for women but they simultaneously deny that women are a sex distinct from men by claiming that men are really women if they feel ‘like a woman’. When in reality, they literally have no idea what it is to be a woman.

Amnesty actively campaigning against the rights of women for single sex spaces and services and trying to silence the voices of women is not mitigated by any other campaigns they may claim to have.

It's notable that the regression of reproductive rights in America has been accompanied by a failure to acknowledge the group affected - women.

Under Amnesty's analysis, pregnancy is a one off, unpredictable event that could happen to anyone. No link to any other experience or life event and certainly no way of e.g. predicting who might become pregnant and limiting their educational opportunities.

https://x.com/jan_murray/status/2058162583878639619?s=46

https://unherd.com/newsroom/trans-report-shows-how-far-amnesty-uk-has-fallen/

It's a particularly shocking stance from Amnesty given the very serious repercussions for women in certain countries of simply being a woman - Afghanistan, Iran, India for starters. This issue really shouldn't be in question.