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.

Amnesty yesterday, then today.

oh look! they're all out of step except for our Johnny!

I agree.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂get over yourself

No actual, factual, rebuttal of the original assertions, we note...🙄

Oh, you're that one who speaks in plural!

Could you please highlight where I said legally and factually are the same thing.

If you look extra carefully at my sentence construction you might see that I was making the point that gender critical or more accurately sex realist beliefs are one of those situations where both law and fact are in agreement.

Fact - certain groups may suffer discrimination due to protected characteristics. Those characteristics include sex, gender reassignment and belief.

The Law - discrimination on the basis of a protected characteristic is generally unlawful unless permitted exceptions apply.

Fact - sometimes the rights of people with protected characteristics have to be balanced if there are competing rights

The Law - this balancing act is frequently undertaken by courts and tribunals.

Fact - there was confusion in some people’s minds over the interaction between the GRA 2004 granting GRC and the operation of the EA2010

The Law - the SC in For Women Scotland clarified that sex means biological sex not certificated sex

All of this above reflects what GC people believe. The right of trans people to be treated with respect and not be discriminated against exists but does not override or outweigh the protections due to sex nor override or outweigh the protections given to holding gender critical beliefs.

Thank you for the opportunity to remind everyone of how simple the legal position is when you respect all protected characteristics and recognise biology sometimes matters.

Note this.

This is a very senior person at Amnesty who thought they were above their 'process' which is a very serious and concerning issue because it shows they have senior staff who are driving tanks over free speech to further their personal political agenda and no one has picked up on it previously despite shit tonnes of evidence that they've done it before.

Or they have fuck all checks and have senior staff who are using Amnesty to further their own personal political agenda with no oversight. Until now.

Either is a car crash.

Yep

I love this comment on twitter.

If I were an official in any organization, the last people I would go after are British TERFs.

They've already brought down a First Minister, forced the government to acknowledge that women are female, driven Stonewall to the brink of bankruptcy and gotten gender critical beliefs protected under British law. Why would you even f**k with them?

Indeed. Let's not forget how many very successful activists are on that list. The LGB Alliance was formed by a number of people who were instrumental in the original Stonewall too for example. The campaign CVs of these people FOR rights go back a LONG way.

Amnesty must be quaking in their boots. Not only is JKR encouraging the organisations mentioned to apply to her fund for funding legal actions, she is now saying she will consider personally funding the men's orgs mentioned (who can't apply for the fund)!!

https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/2076760201101771115?s=20

The campaign CVs of these people FOR rights go back a LONG way.

Which, if you are 20 and have been buried in social media since you were in the womb, you would know nothing about!

Back when I wrote letters for Amnesty, we didn't need to understand a country's internal legislation to any great degree. We are writing about political prisoners, and it didn't really matter what their views were or what legislation they supported, as long as they weren't involved in non-political illegal acts like violence etc.

I think that their change of focus to specific rights issues was the beginning of their downfall.

RIP my twitter mentions now I’ve been quote tweeted by JKR 😬

As people have pointed out, Chiara Capraro is not in her 20s. She works in human rights. She should know exactly who is behind the LGB Alliance.

And yet she STILL listed them. As anti-rights activists.

It's funny to see when you think about this. She thinks she is better at campaigning on rights than some of the most experienced pro-rights campaigners in the entire country.

Think about the sheer arrogance of that.

Or she didn't pause to think why such esteemed individuals would suddenly become what she called 'anti-rights' campaigners.

Or that she might have to actually justify such wild claims with evidence at some point.

That's some fucking great big balls there.

Amid all furore and rightful anger about what AI has posted, I'm also feeling bizarrely betrayed by realising what Amnesty has turned into.

Where is the sense of respect and stewardship for the organisation? They've poisoned their legacy chasing social media likes. It's like finding out your great-aunt left her house to a neighbour who decided to burn it down for the insurance payout but is too stupid to realise its blatant arson.

Amnesty's email to MBM is so disingenuous - this wasn't a paragraph or two where somebody made a mistake, like mixing up Somalia and Somaliland, and oops! it wasn't caught in proofreading before it was posted on their website.

This was the result of a lot of work - they gathered four columns of data about 51 organisations.

Its very existence is indicative of what Amnesty thinks is worthwhile research.

The fact that they made it public on their website is indicative of the fact that they are buck-eejits who have now opened a whole big can of worms.
Or nest of vipers🐍
Their email only refers to it being posted on their website, not what it is.

Oh the irony of the last paragraph, the bit about 'no community should be singled out for unfair treatment' when they've gone to all that time and trouble to single out the Gender Critical community for unfair treatment!

I don't know. I mean I agree, but I don't think this is a new thing.

At the risk of being very controversial, I thought Amnesty was lost when they decided to start campaigning around abortion rights, including in countries where it was a controversial topic among the population.

To me, you can't at the same time be focused on supporting countries to achieve robust democratic process and freedom of political action within that process, while also trying to influence them with outside political views.

Their strategy to justify the change of policy was, instead of seeing that debate as a serious disagreement about balancing rights, characterising one side as being "anti-rights," much as they are doing here.

This isn't a new tactic by Amnesty and I will even say by a lot of progressive activist organisations. It's the way they have always sought to undermine the validity of political discourse they don't like.

I may have missed this being posted, but in case it hasn't:

https://x.com/i/status/2076741431012602138

NEW BLOG We provide an archive of material associated with Amnesty International UK’s decision last week to publish defamatory material about a large number of UK groups who do not agree with its position on sex and self-declared gender.

https://murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2026/07/13/amnesty-international-uk-rights-and-wrongs/

With JKR's offer to fund anyone who wants to go to court we are getting to a new stage.

MBM have published a brilliant summary of the situation with links to the letters.

Amnesty International UK: Rights and Wrongs

This post provides an archive of material associated with Amnesty International UK’s decision to publish defamatory material about a large number of UK groups who do not agree with its position on sex and self-declared gender.

https://murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2026/07/13/amnesty-international-uk-rights-and-wrongs/

Similar useful post from Sex Matters:
Amnesty faces backlash

Amnesty International UK has hastily withdrawn its report A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK – which smeared gender-critical charities, grassroots volunteer networks, evidence-based medicine associations and victim-support groups as “anti-rights” – saying that it is under review.
https://sex-matters.org/posts/updates/amnesty-faces-backlash/

Useful materials to write to your MP or to the press.

This is big, now, isn't it? Bigger than I thought it was going to be.

What a sad state of affairs when oppression is called out such as hate and anti rights campaigns from feminist identifying transphobe groups and the threat of rich bigots with limitless money can dictate whether you can speak up or not.
Well done for Amnesty for trying though, it’s a shame how right-wingers with endless Christian funded money can force rights organisations from speaking up.
Talk about fascism I know where this leads and the UK is well on its way.
Unfortunately this is a Brexit effect, the EU has controls on stuff like this.

That’s nice dear

Hmm.

"As many of these letters (from named groups challenging the report) note, in contrast to Amnesty, the groups it has chosen to name are overwhelmingly composed of volunteers, without any salaried staff or the ability to retain or engage lawyers, and can only take on legal action at personal cost and risk. By contrast, Amnesty International UK appears to have an annual budget somewhere well in excess of £10m (its structure of separate charitable and campaigning parts makes the exact figure more complex to establish)."

https://murrayblackburnmackenzie.org/2026/07/13/amnesty-international-uk-rights-and-wrongs/

What a lovely little speech. I’ll leave the response Sgt Major Williams