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/

Mirdul never testified if I remember correctly. Didn't have the balls.

With perfect irony.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2076952876832731629.html

A fantastic, and astonishing, thread from Maya Forstater on the history of Amnesty, 'trans', and 'gender critical' issues.

Thanks for the link.

"You don’t destroy the ability to debate publicly until you have already destroyed the ability to debate internally."

Isn't that the truth, they're not worth saving, no golden bridge for them, just the dustbin of history. 👎

Wow. Just wow.
There's 'keeping the receipts' and there's this!

Thank you Maya for this wonderfully well informed and detailed examination of how far Amnesty has strayed from its original mission, and how misogynistic it has become.

I think they've lived in the TRA bubble for so long they will be genuinely surprised at the somewhat hostile reception they're getting and possible extreme financial consequences. I do despair that people seem to have lost their minds over this stupid ideology. I actually hope they get sued to oblivion which is the one thing that will stop the madness in the charity sector.

Blimey. And the press guidelines seem to explain the BBC's reporting stance on this issue.

Can somebody clarify please:
Has Amnesty 'regretted' specifically to/about Beira's Place?
The BBC report which said they had done so appears to quote AI's general 'regret' at having posted the whole thing, not BP specifically.
Amnesty 'regret' over JK Rowling sex assault centre criticism

I also saw a reference to a Telegraph article which mentioned BP's place but haven't seen the article itself.

Their general expression of 'regret' wasn't well received, so it will be interesting to see how they respond to the individual groups who have objected to their inclusion, and threatened further action...

Waitwhat23 · 12/07/2026 17:50

A genocide warning from the Lemkin Institute, my left bum cheek!

https://x.com/EHRCchair/status/2076811918430396488

An account on X talks about the organisations on Amnesty's list.

https://archive.ph/7vnbP#selection-891.0-891.194

This is an example of the damage being done by Amnesty's report, which is still being circulated widely online by trans activists.

'I am proud to be a steadfast human rights lawyer who will always speak the truth. Meanwhile, check out this comprehensive list of anti-trans hate groups and collaborators. I’ve just updated it.'

'Hate groups are not powerful, and we can eliminate them together. Amnesty International’s report is right, that hate groups can operate openly in the UK to finance hate is a very real threat. So, how do we change this?'

'The answer: civil vilification laws. Make sure trans people can sue bigots for hefty damages. We must first drive the hate group underground before any other human rights reform is possible. An underground hate group by definition can’t threaten to sue Amnesty International.'

'Development of hate speech laws took a wrong turn in the UK as we focused on criminal sanctions. The Australian model is incredibly effective and we should adopt it.'

As far as I'm aware anyone who wrote has received a standard letter expressing vague regret it was published without proper checks.

Amnesty did incredibly important work holding governments and regimes to account worldwide.

But they have, in this instance, demonstrated their power can be and is being used to harm and damage the rights of women and LGB people.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

So the report has painted a target on the back of every organisation that they named. Quite an achievement for a 'human right's' organisation, when will people on the left wake up to where the danger to civilisation is really coming from.

The updated list of 'anti-trans hate groups and collaborators' supplied by this 'proud steadfast human rights lawyer' includes
<drumroll AND trumpet fanfare please>

'SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, THE'
😁

Read the list. It looks like it covers just about everybody in the UK apart from proud steadfast human rights lawyer and their chums.

With proud steadfast human rights lawyers like that, who needs dictators and tyrants?

Including the All Parliamentary Group 'Christians in Parliament' which has Dawn Butler as an officer and Ruth Hunt as a member.

It would be funny if MPs weren't genuinely worried about being murdered.

Obviously our focus is women's rights, but I think the problems with Amnesty go beyond this report. They are using the cover of their previous* reputation to purport to be a human rights organisation without, apparently, the faintest understanding of what that means. I think that is dangerous.

Exactly.

This isn't just AI UK. A lot of organisations that used to stand up for civil rights have been co-opted to the cause by Denton's style forced teaming.

ACLU - Led by Mighty Ira Glasser ( a Jewish man ) Fought for the rights of Nazis to march in Skokie Illinois to protect their rights. Now does everything they can to try and censor people they disagree with.

SPLC - Used to stand for freedom and civil rights. Now funds racist groups like the KKK so they don't lose their purpose and cause for fund raising.

Stonewall. Was original gay rights organisation. Now co-opted by men's rights activists and fetishists. Just like the SPLC they probably need a cause to justify their fund raising. They don't really care what the cause is, as long as the cash keeps coming in.

Worth the wait. Beira's Place has written to Amnesty.

I'm surmising that JKR wrote something pithy and excoriating, which she then asked a lawyer to translate into legalese.

Wow.

snorts with laughter.

Definitely squeaky bum time over at AIUK HQ.

'Oh fuck. Oh, fuuuuuck!'

https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/66338/amnesty-international-uk-report-on-the-antirights-movement-in-the-uk

'That this House expresses extreme concern at Amnesty International UK's report entitled A Growing Threat: the Anti-Rights Movement in the UK, published on 8 July; condemns its depiction and listing of organisations defending the rights of women, girls, children, and gay and bisexual people as anti-rights on the basis of them being gender critical; further condemns its depiction and listing of organisations of parents and of clinicians as promoting conversion practices; notes that organisations depicted as supposedly anti-rights includes many grassroots women’s rights organisations doing vital work domestically and internationally with vulnerable women and children, and a rape crisis centre and support service for female survivors of male violence; further notes that gender critical belief is a protected belief under the Equality Act 2010 and reflects the views of the majority of the public; also notes that it is perfectly legitimate to organise around the protected characteristic of sex and to offer single-sex spaces, as clarified by the recent Supreme Court ruling in For Women Scotland vs The Scottish Government; recognises that such organisation, work and services are fundamentally important; also condemns the report for making unevidenced characterisations; acknowledges the damaging impact of such baseless accusations for the small grassroots charities and organisations listed; and calls on Amnesty International to withdraw the report, issue a formal public correction and apology acknowledging the reputational harm, and pledge that Amnesty staff who hold gender critical beliefs can express such beliefs without fear of bullying or harassment. '

Thanks to Tonia Antoniazzi and the other MPs who have signed for this EDM.

Wow. I hope for their sake they are getting independent legal advice. The best thing they can do is apologise and try to mitigate the damage.

I just can't see how they can NOT apologise and why they didn't do so immediately to preempt threats of court action. There are some empty billboards in major cities I believe, maybe use those?

Apologies can sometimes be used to point to liability, is my guess.

You're probably right but they're going to have to do it sooner or later.