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.

But its a lovely looking doughnut!

So glad it wasn’t a Krispy Kreme.

Quite happy for it to be aired in the full glare of the public view. You can’t just make shit up about people to smear them, they’d best get their ducks in a row 🤷‍♀️

Thanks

Are you Krispy Kreme exclusionary or do you just want them not to be tainted by SH?

Just got it 😩

It’s the tainted bit. Although I’d probably still eat a jam doughnut, even after seeing that photo!

Imagine arguing that a rape crisis centre, for example, does nothing for women...

Haha!!! I genuinely didn’t mean it like that but that is funny!

... And imagine thinking women can't multitask 😊

Oh yeah, that one is hilarious. Women, those famous mono-taskers!

Nothing on inequality, justice, the poor funding and widespread sexual abuse which affect female athletes, rape culture or consent education.
Just endlessly whining about checking the genitals of someone in an adjacent toilet cubicle, inventing stupid origin stories for minorities, attacking individuals and enabling violence against trans kids in schools.

Oh babes, I do feel for you, I really do. It takes great effort to keep this up. And in this heat too.

The whole of the pushback against a bunch of entitled men using women’s spaces is arguably a form of “consent education” because those men sure don’t give a shit about women’s.

A letter about trans rights in Ireland was published on 'Trans Day of Remembrance' in 2020,
It was a long, wordy and totally predictable letter, and it included:
We call on media, and politicians to no longer provide legitimate representation for those that share bigoted beliefs, that are aligned with far right ideologies and seek nothing but harm and division.

It was signed by a frighteningly large range of groups and individuals, including Amnesty International, who seem to have a track record in not reading things very carefully, because they denied that they had intended to call for removal of women's rights to representation.
A mealy-mouthed denial, which said the extract had been 'decontextualised', but nonetheless they did not stand by a call to strip women of their civic rights.

This all reminds me of that rather unfortunate Amnesty related incident in 2021. I wonder if the meeting ever happened or whether Amnesty ever showed any interest in dialogue?

https://www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/2021/10/26/filia-statement-on-amnesty-international-uk

Our feminist conference this past October 16-17th in Portsmouth attracted over 1,100 people interested in the women’s liberation movement. Our overwhelmingly female attendees were keen to learn about a range of issues such as male violence against women, the abuse of black women in employment, disability issues, religious fundamentalism, the political participation of migrant women, maternity matters, the importance of lesbian spaces and environmentalism.

Some of our panels focused on sex-based rights and featured a range of feminist speakers from all around the world. These panels emphasised the negative impact that the authoritarian imposition of “gender identity” policies (or sex self-identification) is having on single-sex services, femicide data, children’s development and the rights of women in prison.

Poignantly, during our FiLiA 2021 Conference, we held a Feminist Vigil at the Town Hall Square to commemorate the lives of women and girls killed by men. We shared our mourning, our anger and our outrage at the seemingly never-ending stream of abuse and violence women are subjected to. Women from Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Argentina, Brazil, the UK and Pakistan (among others) spoke movingly in remembrance of their sisters whose lives have been violently taken by men.

At the entrance of our Portsmouth Guildhall venue, women and their children were greeted by sexually abusive signs held by protestors claiming, in part, to represent Amnesty International UK. Transactivist protesters chanted “Trans women are women”, “Blow jobs are real jobs” and “No TERFs in Pompey Turf.” They held signs that read “Suck my dick, you transphobic cunts” and wrote with chalk “Transphobes can suck on my pink strap” on the Guildhall entrance.
At the Femicide Vigil, women and children had to stand on those messages while we mourned our sisters.

Protesters also held signs stating: “I AM WHO I SAY I AM: Amnesty International” and “LOVE IS A HUMAN RIGHT: Amnesty International”.
A week after our FiLiA Conference in Portsmouth, Amnesty International issued a statement distancing themselves from the protest but admitted to providing materials to the organisers. They conceded that “threatening and aggressive language” was used against the women and children attending our FiLiA 2021 conference and claimed to be shocked by this.

We are pleased that Amnesty International draws a line on sexually abusive and threatening intimidation by protesters who organise under their name and felt compelled to issue a public statement about it. However, we reject the organisations attempts to distance themselves from the toxic climate of abuse and intimidation feminists have been forced to endure and Amnesty International has helped create.

The statement “I AM WHO I SAY I AM” is a supremacist mantra. Around the UK and worldwide, transactivists have used this slogan to unceremoniously dismiss the legitimate concerns of feminists who defend their sex-based rights. The statement “I AM WHO I SAY I AM” is incompatible with a democratic society in which everybody’s human rights are balanced and respected. The statement “I AM WHO I SAY I AM” is an insult to the women and girls whose voices, lives and experiences are systemically invisibilised in a patriarchal society.

While transactivist campaigners, including Amnesty International, have every right to demand changes in public policy, they do not get to unilaterally impose their desires on the rest of the population as if their wishes represented the law. In the UK, everybody has rights based on sex (including the right to single-sex services and spaces) so the intonation “I AM WHO I SAY I AM” encourages transactivists to violate women’s personal boundaries and legal protections.

We call on Amnesty International to withdraw this totalitarian mantra from their official materials and to publicly acknowledge that, when it comes to women’s rights and trans rights, there are competing human rights that must be balanced wisely and democratically.

We are publicly requesting a meeting between our organisations so we can discuss this matter further.

We also invite the leadership of Amnesty International UK to attend our FiLiA 2022 Conference in Cardiff so they can personally engage in dialogue with the global range of feminist speakers who make our annual women’s liberation gathering possible

I don’t think so, they just said “nothing to do with us, we just supplied the placards”

I see AI(UK) has been put on formal notice by Genspect that legal action is being considered and it would be an offence for Amnesty to now delete any related material.

House!

Even though anyone with any sense would see that this message is a safeguarding nightmare.

Jimmy Savile would have loved it.

And I seem to remember critical memes were produced then with that exact suggestion.

Interesting....Bet they wish now that they had consulted with their lawyers 😬

If Amnesty is correct, they will put the report back up and see all the various organisations in court, where they will win. Hm, do we think that's likely?

I have read this thread (and the parallel thread) with great interest. It is a strange world where AIUK is arguing in favour of Totalitarianism.

@TransParentlyAnnoyed do bore off with "endlessly whining about checking the genitals of someone in an adjacent toilet cubicle". The only people who suggest genital checks are trans people and their allies; everyone else can tell the difference between men and women without needing to conduct a strip search.

This is interesting.

One of the 'anti rights' groups on the list is 'Christians in Parliament', of which ally Dawn Butler is a member and ally Marsha de Cordova is an officer.

Could it be that they were just randomly listing Christian organisations?

ETA: Both have also supported decriminalisation of abortion and buffer zones around abortion clinics.

(For all I know other members have similar views. I just haven't checked.)