In which Amnesty jumps the shark

[WrongKindOfFeminist]

A report on 'anti gender actors' from Amnesty appears to be a puzzling work of jumbled nonsense and overwrought fiction.

Either they completely fail to grasp what 'gender critical' means, or they are deliberately trying desperately to bundle it in with Xtian rightwing US organisations. Maybe both.

Trans activists have been accusing UK feminists of being rightwing Xtian US fundamentalist funded for years. Sometimes it's funny, more often it's just fucking tedious.

Anyway.

'An organised anti-rights movement targeting the rights of women and LGBT+ people is growing in the UK. Over 60% of the organisations mapped have emerged since 2017, the vast majority gender critical organisations'

What the everloving fuck do they think they mean, here?

Feminists 'target' the rights of women? In terms of - feminists have fought long and hard for the rights of women? Yes, well done, Amnesty.

Then they whang on a lot about abortion and well funded US rightwing organisations, including religious groups, etc.

And then ...

'In fact, gender critical organisations only account for 2.5% of total expenditure but have been remarkably successful in realising their agenda through strategic litigation and campaigning.'

Will you ever actually use your brains, Amnesty?

The list at the end should give them a wee clue. Dozens of feminist organisations, almost all listed as 'informal', yet lumped in bizarrely with massive US anti abortion groups.

Idiots.

www.amnesty.org.uk/knowledge-hub/all-resources/report-a-growing-threat-the-anti-rights-movement-in-the-uk-july-2026/

In Scotland at least, it is still front page news for a couple of newspapers at least so hopefully they do

From yesterday -

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crr8ggrz1lpo

That flapping noise is a whole barn full of chickens coming home to roost. This is the natural result of years and years and ABSOLUTE FUCKING YEARS of the narrative being pushed that those on the self-appointed RSOH can do no wrong and anyone who opposes them or incurs their ire deserves everything they get.

They have massively overstepped the mark - which was also inevitable, given the escalating nature of all this, and now they’re going to be knee-deep in lawyers and court cases. I very much doubt an apology will save them now but that’s the saddest thing - like Stonewall, they were doing good until they horse-shoed around to being the ones doing the harm. What a fucking waste.

lechiffre55 · Today 17:26

JKR pretty much making the same point yesterday. The activists causing damage to their own cause without understanding why.

That particular one is....

rather special. There is a lawyer on that JKR thread, explaining why, because it's been disseminated so widely, it's reach is greater and that will have exacerbated things for Amnesty.

I've searched the thread, but cannot find it, sorry.

Stonewall will need to be very careful here. They may well be next, and they're not exactly raking in the money anymore. JKR seems to have accepted the mission, at least for this round. If Stonewall attempts anything like this, anywhere near anything she cares about, I can imagine she'd be all over it.

Interesting angle from LGB Alliance

Thanks HH but it's really difficult to read that version because it's all blurry.
Here's a link:
https://lgballiance.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2026-07-11-Amnesty-letter-in-response-to-the-report-A-Growing-Threat_-The-Anti-Rights-Movement-in-the-UK.pdf

We know how good the Amnesty lawyers are, because we saw them intervening in FWS in the Supreme Court.

I expect the huge majority of Amnesty supporters assume they are an organisation that fights for the protection of human rights and will be quite surprised to see them go after a service for rape survivors and tiny grassroots organisations for lesbians.

Yes. That one is a theythem.

I wonder how long they have before one of the many organisations gets impatient. I see Elaine Miller had sent a second letter.

She'll get her merkin all in a flap. Won't be the first time :)

they were doing good until they horse-shoed around to being the ones doing the harm.

My DH says if Lenin is an example of far left and Hitler an example of far right, we can see how they circle around to meet at the top of the horseshoe. Both authoritarian ideologies willing to do great harm to people in the name of their political causes.

I did like her 'if I have questions I want ignored, I pose them to my resident teenagers' crack in the second letter.

Definitely! But, you'd think they could handle something as simple as "possibly libel so maybe better not." 😁

I came cross this
Our Gender Justice Programme Director Chiara Capraro was a host on Bellingcat's podcast last week where she talked about the findings of Amnesty UK's research on anti-rights actors and the current… | Amnesty International UK
on LinkedIn - just that into, I'm not on LinkedIn so I couldn't see any more.
I also couldn't see what date it was posted.

It's interesting because it states the original/rationale for the research which is now causing so much trouble for Amnesty.
So it wasn't thrown together by a work experience junior over a weekend, and accidentally posted before a grown-up had read it, it was clearly thought through and planned, and the objective seems to be to damage/destroy the 'offenders' so they don't get any more Government funding.

Wow. That went well.

Women and pregnant people?? So, women then.

I love bellingcat and donate. They’re fantastic.

Which is why it seems to me that there may have been a deliberate and conscious libelling.

Its so obviously 1. Untrue and 2. Malicious and 3. Damaging.

Well, it does seem that a lot of these RSOH types believe that they are above the law and untouchable, so you could be right.

Perhaps it is like the more active kinds of activism - some activists do not seem to understand that doing something illegal for political reasons doesn’t make it less illegal. I am quite surprised that they make a fuss about going to prison or being sued for breaking the law - the suffragettes were pretty clear that that was the tactic.

Amnesty ‘would not survive’ legal action by JK Rowling

https://www.thetimes.com/article/ca8c4c92-7904-4909-ab80-1ba5645a92f9?shareToken=3351d3069f5b90b94b2c8815d3fad756

She Is a Queen.

I can't lie, I'm rather enjoying all the women categorically being handed massive mallets to nail the gender critical points home.

I am on LinkedIn - screenshot below.

The link goes here - dated February 13 2026 - second screenshot.

The podcast is almost an hour long, but there’s a transcript.
I have no idea if it’s genuine.