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.

They have no idea how they look from the outside...

And of course they are blaming JKR for “silencing” them with legal threats. PTD was on hand to say that the statements against Scottish organisations were probably defamatory but they could tweak and reword them as opinions. Something about a recent libel law change north of the border.

If you check what you can write and claim as “opinion”, it still won’t fly.

Nor does it cure the original libel. Which is still out there.

https://x.com/genspect/status/2076373438973792314

I hope the Amnesty board didnt have anything planned for Monday.

At moments like this I really miss the "laugh" emoji. 😂😂😂

I wonder if Amnesty has reached the point yet where they wish they'd just stuck to campaigning for prisoners of conscience and not tried to tiddle about with political issues that they don't understand.

And I wonder where they got the idea that targeting young men is a good strategy. Young men as a demographic are not noted for charitable work.

I am fine with people who take the time to understand my position but disagree with me. That never happens on this topic. They’re all just shouting abuse at us while covering their ears. It’s so frustrating that they don’t seem to understand the fundamentals.

14 days from the date of the letter. I make that the 26th. 🍿

Keep an eye on this one too. If they get no apology, (I'm not expecting one) I'll be curious as to alternative action.

Gay Men's Network AT mensnetwork1
1/ Amnesty International chose to libel the Gay Men's Network as an "anti-rights" group along with several LBG organisations. We object to NGOs who espouse gender ideology misusing their formidable funding and influence in this fashion and we are seeking a formal apology.

2/ Amnesty has absolutely no right to dictate what political opinions gay men may or may not hold on gender ideology. It has no right to "evidence launder" a list of dissent lesbian and gay groups as targets for opprobrium or public condemnation.

3/ Making lists of political enemies is the sort of activity Amnesty used to actively and admirably campaign against, now it does precisely that. Further, the "report" in question counsels unlawful belief discrimination by regulators and funding bodies

4/ The Charity sector preaches diversity yet is singularly intolerant of Gay Men and Lesbians who correctly analyse gender ideology as deeply homophobic from the denial of same sex attraction to the scandal of high numbers of same-sex attracted youth at gender clinics

5/ For the avoidance of any doubt, we will not allow libels from Amnesty to scare or intimidate us. We are gay men who have faced prejudice and discrimination all of our lives and a captured charity engaging in libel is anaemic by comparison to what most gay men have experienced

6/ We affirm out commitment to fighting the dangerous and draconian Conversion Practices Bill Amnesty supports and we repeat our criticism that it exploits real gay pain in order to terrify parents of children experiencing distress around gender

7/ We are currently in the process of updating our website. When it is complete the letter will also be posted publicly there, just as Amnesty's libels of us and other LGB organisations were made public

8/ We urge the Charity Commission to urgently consider action in this matter. It cannot be right for charities to compile lists of political opponents and public libel them in this way. The gender corruption of the 3rd sector is a huge issue. It is time to act.

Are these people just malign, or have they lost all ability to reason things out? I mean, just this one simple point, one of many upthread:

3/ Making lists of political enemies is the sort of activity Amnesty used to actively and admirably campaign against, now it does precisely that. Further, the "report" in question counsels unlawful belief discrimination by regulators and funding bodies

Still I suppose, what do you say about people who say, sex work is just work (but not for my daughters, of course)?

Bev Jackson

Lots of people assume the nutty Amnesty UK report was produced by a young intern. In fact it was written by Chiara Capraro, Gender Justice Programme Director at Amnesty International UK. She has been expressing these deranged views in writing and interviews for some time. But this latest “report”/“briefing” is so outrageous that it has for the first time provoked widespread condemnation and disgust.

Chiara Capraro has now locked down her account on X and seems to have disappeared from LinkedIn. She has been writing defamatory rubbish for Amnesty UK for ages but she finally crossed a line and can’t retreat from here.

Chiara Capraro may have been helping to support Amnesty's intervention in the Supreme Court case which of course was legally weak and probably helped ensure the victory by the reality based side. It was the only intervention by any trans supporting group in the case. It would be ironic if her dumb report helped undermine in Amnesty from its anti women's rights position as well as triggering the Supreme Court victory.

Capraro published this article in 2018 which is already talking about "toxic debate on social media":

Scottish Gender Recognition Act – a positive step towards change
Chiara Capraro is women’s human rights programme director at Amnesty International UK. {Notice how her role has been renamed she is now a gender justice director.)
https://tfn.scot/opinion/scottish-gender-recognition-act-a-positive-step-towards-change

Her background is interesting. She formerly worked for Christian Aid. So Christian money was fine in the past it seems. Now Christian groups are mostly evil including the Catholic Church.

Chiara Capraro is the Policy and Advocacy Manager for Economic Rights at Womankind Worldwide, based in London, UK. Prior to joining Womankind, Chiara was Gender Policy Adviser at Christian Aid where she led work on gender responsive tax and fiscal policy. Before moving to the UK, Chiara worked in Southern India with women living with HIV and in Italy with women migrants, supporting them to access health care and other services and fight discrimination.

She is also pro prostitution.

Programme directors at Amnesty get paid c £80000. She is very much part of the global elite with that salary.

I think ‘lost the ability to reason things out’ must be an important factor.

One of the key recommendations of the report is that the Charity Commission should review the charitable status of the referenced organisations, seemingly oblivious to the failed attempt by Mermaids to de register LGB Allance in 2023.

Maybe 50/50 is fair. 😀

Another interesting point. While there is a huge amount in the report about Christian influence on British politics there is zero interest in a huge factor in recent years - Muslim influence. In the May elections hundreds of people were voted in on a Gaza/Muslim Vote platform which includes condemnation of the idea of LGBT education. You would thinnk Amnesty would notice this.
https://www.meforum.org/fwi/fwi-news/islamist-linked-lobby-scores-big-wins-in-englands-local-council-elections

Divisions over Muslim members and their ideas were key in the recent implosion of Your Party.

Muslim politics in the UK has huge ties to foreign funding just as much as Christian politics does.

Countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey are key enemies of international human rights especially for women. Amnesty knows this:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/middle-east-and-north-africa/middle-east/saudi-arabia/report-saudi-arabia/

Link to the removed Amnesty report:

https://wingsoverscotland.com/Report_-_A_growing_threat__the_anti-rights_movement_in_the_UK_July_2026.pdf

What happened to Amnesty International?
It’s gone from championing the rights of political prisoners to championing the right of men to use women’s bathrooms.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/07/12/what-happened-to-amnesty-international/

There have been suggestions on line that JKR is the bigger player here and that she and the GC organisations listed are threatening to use law fare to silence Amnesty. (like a SLAPP suit?)

However, Amnesty International say that they raise over £300 million a year.

While, as a private individual, JKR doesn't publish her income it's often estimated to be around £50 to £100 million a year.

If we exclude JKR (who isn't mentioned in the report) and only focus on Amnesty UK and the charities mentioned, The Amnesty UK charitable trust has an income of £24 million and the membership section has an income of around £14 million.
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/about/accountability/our-finances/

I'm happy to be corrected if anyone has any more information, but if you combined the incomes of all the listed GC organisations, I don't think their income would come anywhere near this.

(As an aside, they say in the annual report on the membership section that their 'North Star' is making human rights a vote winner, which is odd because in recent years they have done as much as anyone to bolster the Reform vote).

Meanwhile here is Chiara Caparo actually telling Bellingcat about the strategies she advocates

“I discuss about this a lot, you know, with colleagues and other people, and this is perhaps not, it's a more operational thing to do, but it's kind of, somebody talked about leveraging bureaucracy, so kind of burying them in, you know, paperwork and procedures and try to kind of like slow down how much, how effective they are.”

From Stage Talks with Bellingcat: "Mapping the Anti-Rights Movement From the US to the UK" with Amnesty International UK, 13 Feb 2026
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/mapping-the-anti-rights-movement-from-the-us-to/id1842893341?i=1000749651610&r=2332.227
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I googled Chiara Capraro to find out more about her. Her LinkedIn seems to have been deleted. And yes, @fromorbit, it's strange how her professional history is focused on women's rights.

Mind you, I went to an election hustings where Scottish Green Kate Nevens was present. She said she has a background in VAWG, yet when someone asked about the Supreme Court judgement, she said it's not trans people who are the danger to women - the danger is from the right wing. Just bizarre.

https://x.com/TheAkoFiles/status/2076434351940649323/mediaViewer?currentTweet=2076434351940649323&currentTweetUser=TheAkoFiles

very much worth a watch. Uk / Ireland director of amnesty

In my experience they don't care about this purity stuff the way many on the left do.

It's also the case, ime, that the vast majority of people who are right wing don't believe most of the stuff people on the left think they do. For example things like race essentialism, or that people have to "perform gender stereotypes."

Most women on the right also believe women should vote, be able to go into politics, be educated, shouldn't be forced to marry, etc.

@TempestTost good point, and many things on your list make me think of Ann Widdecombe.

The women’s sector is incredibly captured by this and other “progressive” ideologies which disadvantage women and girls. Something that is definitely worthy of investigation.

He doesn't have a clue, does he? "We don't believe women's rights are under attack from trans people."

Interviewer: "Women's rights are not protected if we are allowing males into women's spaces..."
Amnesty Director: "...difficult, complicated situation...waffle, waffle, hate, anger, we spread kindness and dignity..."

They say in 2025 the number of new recruits was less than the number of lapsed memberships. They are also very coy in the finance statement about their advocacy on behalf of “trans rights” - they bundle it into “anti rights” in quite a sly way, and even that only merits a few lines. They also say there was a deficit in the last quarter- the Trust had to prop up the operations.

I’m seeing this “anti rights” nonsense as an example of disinformation. Especially seeing how disingenuously they use it in their finance statement when most of their targets are GC.

That red faced Amnesty director pivoted straight back to protected zones at abortion clinics when the guy asked about women’s rights to single sex spaces. These are the lines coming from top down I imagine.

Seems there's a growing list of orgs who are prepared to take legal action against AA for maligning/slandering them: FWS, Gay Men's Network, etc. All power to their elbows.

Would it make more sense for them all to group together? Or at this stage is it best for them all to fire off their individual letters?