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/

They have fucked themselves big time.

The thing is, if they apologise to Beiras Place, and not all the others, in the terms they think are appropriate, it would probably strengthen the liability for those other orgs as pp said.

Here we have the Trans Bash Back organisation referencing the AI report.

https://archive.ph/wip/amr6i

'J.K. Rowling is a filthy bigot and an abusive bully, waving her cash around to stop major publications from mentioning her genocidal transphobia. .
@AmnestyUK
were absolutely right to call her "anti-rights". The only more appropriate terms are expletives. xoxo BASH BACK'

Further evidence that the report is attracting the attention of people who present an actual risk of harm to the women listed in the report.

I'm wondering how AI are hoping to close Pandora's box, now. Trans activists are sharing the fuck out of the report. They won't stop.

I don't think AI couldn't get them to stop even if they tried.

Completely agree, I meant a huge, mea maxima culpa public apology to everyone they libeled in the report followed by some sword -falling.

I don't think that's going to be enough, tbh.

The report is out there, it's in the wild and being shared and used to abuse women, including the victims of sexual violence.

They've launched something horrific and they can't control it, so I don't really see how an apology is going to go any way towards ameliorating or correcting it.

Is there a list of all the letters sent?

I agree, they can't put the genie back in the bottle, even if they apologise for the report, it won't change any of the other crap they've been peddling, both here and in Global AI.

I think a loss in court is the only thing which will discredit the report.

Bash Back want to be keeping their heads down right now.
They have been mentioned by several politicians as a source of violent threats in the discourse resulting from Widdecombe's murder.
The last thing they want to be doing is poking the bear even more now that it's woken up to them. There's a lot of police and related organisations going to be under a lot of pressure to prove they are dealing with extremism and sources of threats. That is not the sort of attention anyone in their right mind wants. Even the name of the organisation Bash Back speaks of violent intentions.

Further evidence that the report is attracting the attention of people who present an actual risk of harm to the women listed in the report.

And about 40 MPs and 50 member of the House of Lords and the Catholic Church in the UK.

Sorry - NOT the Catholic Church in Scotland for some reason.

As pp said if proper policing was directed towards “Bash Back” I imagine they could find them all pretty easily.

In their right mind - there's the rub.

Sex Matters website is gathering them together.

The letters are on the SM Substack.

Crikey, this has spiralled out control so quickly.

Probably due to the erstwhile reputation and credibility of AI. They're a big hitter.

And now Bash Back have absolutely fucked them.

Transactivists - they're like unpaid, gender critical flying monkeys.

It's pure misogyny.

It makes you wonder why institutions like AI can't see what a massive magnet they are for violent, unhinged, very dangerous men. It's not like they keep it a secret.

Yes. I think it's possible that it's the logical and inevitable outcome of years of bullshit activism having taken over the organisation. They were always going to come out with something this egregious and wrongheaded.

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

Interesting that JKR has redacted the details of the lawyers (presumably!) officially sending the letter. I wonder if that's so that people don't know who they are, or just to make it harder for randoms to send fake letters apparently from them? Anyone any idea who it's likely to be? On the grounds that JKR doesn't usually do things by halves, I guess the best defamation solicitor there is, but I don't know who that would be - or even whether they'd need to be Scottish or English.

I imagine it's someone like Carter Ruck, one of the big hitters. I'd shit myself if I received that letter. Let it go all the way to court.

What a mess. AI have probably seen off their last remaining civilised supporters and are now left with violent TRAs as their support base. Is this really want they wanted?

I wonder how many of Amnesty’s older supporters know about it, if they’re not on social media?

Amnesty are really in trouble if their lawyers are activists as well. They'll have nothing propping them up except bad legal advice which will just run them into the ground.

I suspect, however, that this is not the case. They probably didn't run it past full legal before they published. Their lawyers are probably now in full damage control mode.

The middle ground is that the activist lawyers are now trying to find loopholes in case law so they can twist their way out of this. Can they do it? Probably not, but it may depend on how good the lawyers are and how much they pay them.

And JKR can buy lawyers 100 times over, for their every one. 🍿