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

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Anti-rights actors seek a society in which women and men have fixed and distinct roles, based on what they view as ‘natural’ and ‘traditional’. These actors perceive the idea that gender is socially constructed as a threat because it suggests that gender roles can, and do, change across societies and over time. In fact, progress in the rights of women and LGBT+ people has been underpinned by changing understandings of gender and social roles.

Anti-rights actors refer to this perceived threat as ‘gender ideology’, portraying it as an attack on national traditions, family structures, marriage and religious freedom. These narratives often seek to generate fear and uncertainty and rely on misinformation or exaggerated claims.

The term ‘gender ideology’ emerged in the context of debates within international institutions, particularly the United Nations, about gender equality and sexual and reproductive rights.

In 1964, the Holy See became a Permanent Observer at the UN General Assembly, the only religious body with this status. As a permanent observer the Holy See can participate in processes at the General Assembly as well as other UN bodies. It cannot vote but it has the possibility to co-sponsor resolutions if a member state requests a vote. Although it cannot vote, the Holy See can participate in UN discussions and processes and has played an influential role in debates on women's rights and LGBT+ rights.

The term ‘gender ideology’ gained prominence in response to progress on gender equality and Cairo in 1994. These conference were a landmark moment for the global women's rights movement. The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action is widely regarded as a key international framework for advancing women's rights and gender equality, and states continue to report on its implementation through the Commission on the Status of Women.

While opposition to sexual and reproductive rights predates the Beijing conference, the term ‘gender ideology’ became a particularly important response to the advances achieved there. The phrase was coined to explain the growing influence of gender equality agendas and to mobilise opposition to them.

Although the term originated in debates at the international level, it has since become a broad political narrative used by a wide range of anti-rights actors. Today, it is often used to connect campaigns against gender equality, sexual and reproductive rights, and LGBT+ rights across different countries and contexts.

From intro to report at
https://media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Report_-_A_growing_threat__the_anti-rights_movement_in_the_UK_July_2026.pdf

See images of the list of 51 groups Amnesty is claiming are right wing.

If for some reason the images dont appear the list is on pages 19 & 20 of the report.

They have included all SEEN networks!!!!

Sorry too much text. I don't understand the thread title. Can you summarise?

So Labour Women's Declaration is now offically "right wing"??
Ditto "Virago Women's Workshop" and the "Gay Men's Network":
It's also, apparently, right wing now to think that "Women are not sex objects" - well that figures alright. 🙄

I think They have failed to understand the difference between sex and gender, and have attributed the thoughts of gender enforcers - those who believe in strict gender roles and the inherent disadvantages that gives women in particular - to the GC community. Strict gender enforcers don’t support transgender people at all. They don’t say “live as you like within the basic bounds of of common sense “ they say “stick to your role and that includes your name and clothes “

gender is to me the set of things assigned to a person based on their sex that actually are independent of their sex

IIRC this idea went around on twitter a few years ago. There was a document provided from the 90s, written by a conservative Christian group that used the term "gender ideology" seemingly to refer to a mix of feminism and gay rights, rather than what we would understand it to mean today. This obviously gave TRAs ammunition to paint opposition to gender ideology as right wing.

As nearly every thread on FWR is about how trans activists have been subverting the meaning of the word gender so as to make their argument that you can change "sex" by labelling "gender", not sure why anyone is struggling with this.

It is in line with Amnesty reports dating back years.

What is interesting is that to support their claim of right wing (ie anybody who doesn't agree with Amnesty) they have listed so many SEEN networks.

Its laughable.

Their big scary headlines of a growth in right wing activism is based on the growth in SEEN networks.

Again an issue that has and still is, part of many FWR threads.

I'm sure there are people and organisations who take a conservative line on traditional roles etc but why should this be seen as a problem? Surely they are allowed to think what they like. But anyway, there is a big difference between rejecting these stereotypical roles and embracing trans ideology. I am happy for my nephew to wear a dress - i don't however think he can claim to be a woman.

I don't think anyone is going to take any notice of this.

@SockPlant The summary is that Amnesty has listed any sex realist/ gender critical group as 'anti rights' if a group doesn't prioritise the demands of men who say they're women over women/ children/ gay people. The groups Amnesty are picking on include any support groups for women or children that don't include 'transwomen' /men (eg due to supporting rape victims , or children abused by men who say they're women).

Amnesty has totally lost its way- they used to speak up for vulnerable people and abused women/ children- now they're targetting groups that support the victims (!) for bullying. Amnesty's list targets any (mainly female led/ feminist but also LGB ) group that doesn't believe men can be women- ie are sex realist/ gender critical.

The Amnesty list even includes Beira's Place (the female only rape support org that was set up I think by JK Rowling as there wasn't anything single sex ) and Children of Transitioners (who are a tiny grass roots, unfunded, group of volunteers who support others with a transparent). Can't think how these are anti rights groups- Amnesty is lying! @backformoreofthesame is being very generous in saying maybe they don't understand.

(maybe the Cots group got targetted because the courts recently upheld the fact that Children of Transitioners have human rights that by law transparents can't remove ( there's a mumsnet thread about the ECHR decision last week - here's a previous background link https://childrenoftransitioners.org/paperwork/

Hugely disappointing to see how far Amnesty has fallen- I used to be part of an Amnesty group at Uni, before they started on the trans madness/ hating women and girls....

This is gobbledigook.

Are they referring to gender critical people?

These actors perceive the idea that gender is socially constructed as a threat because it suggests that gender roles can, and do, change across societies and over time.

The gender critical view that gender is socially constructed is supported by the understanding that gender roles can, and do, change across societies and over time. This is not a threat. It is a supporting argument.

Anti-rights actors refer to this perceived threat as ‘gender ideology’, portraying it as an attack on national traditions, family structures, marriage and religious freedom.

No, gender ideology is the belief that gender roles actually matter, that gender beliefs matter more than material sex. This is the threat, the attack on national traditions, family structures, marriage and religious freedom.

Disingenuous deceit.

OTOH mangling language and using words as though they meant the opposite are features of gender ideology, so I shouldn't be surprised.

I am very excited to discover I belong to ay least three right wing organisations. I've only ever been a member of Labour it the Greens.

Disingenuous deceit.
OTOH mangling language and using words as though they meant the opposite are features of gender ideology, so I shouldn't be surprised.

It really makes Amnesty look like Stonewall when it stopped being LGB. Not that I am saying human rights are in any way secure, but to somehow justify continuing to exist they have had to create a hostile actor - and have worked out given the huge success of trans activism they may as well tag along with.

But again the astonishing unreconstructed men's rights ideology that under pins all of this.

We have now got to the point when a so call human rights campaign group can label women's rights as being right wing.

And sadly with so many parts of the media and other institutions are totally under the sway of Stonewall law, that in the near future I am sure we will finds many of these groups being referred to in the media as being right wing.

I suppose this means Amnesty thinks the Supreme Court is a right wing reactionary organisation!

Do Amnesty still say that women in developing countries need single-sex toilets? (If they do, is that because it is unhealthy and undignified for women to be restricted to toileting in fields after dark, where they are at risk of rape, or is it so that trans-identifying men have somewhere for their validation? )

Do they still say that menstrual huts are bad for women? (If they do, is that because women suffer in them, or is it because trans-identified men do not get to enter them?)

I am not sure that I have been formally part of any of these groups, but have attended events, read papers from many of these groups.

Should I hand myself in to Amnesty?!

Concerning to think that employers might use this list of groups when considering employing someone.

It's part of an attempt to silence women - same old same old.

Time for this one again:

I missed tg second page! I've been a member of 5!!! I should probably arrest myself.

Lols they are a bit confused bless them.

Wel they've got their definition a bit arse about face haven't they?
Do they need help with proof reading?

They are doing that think where instead of engaging with an argument, you just make up what the other party believes.

It's a bit like Trump saying that Obama is the founder of ISIS.

It's truly sad,once upon a time Amnesty stood up for the genuinely oppressed, for political prisoners who were tortured and killed.There are women now in some Muslim countries who can't get an education, who can't leave the house alone, who can't get dental treatment because they can't see a male dentist and they won't train women dentists - if Amnesty can't see they're the people who really need their help then they've really lost their way.

I despair sometimes at the comprehension skills of supposedly serious organisations.

Amnesty have put Beira's Place on their sodding list.

if that was at me i simply cannot parse the thread title. Perhaps you could??

A growing threat: ok i get that bit* *

the anti-rights movement in the UK i think i get this (it is talking about an anti-"rights movement")

says Amnesty i know who they are

who claim over 50% are Gender Critical groups - makes zero sense (should there have been punctuation?)

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i am very fucking cross that i spent so many hours writing postcards for Amnesty (back in the day)