Amnesty International UK has hastily withdrawn its report A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK – which smeared gender-critical charities, grassroots volunteer networks, evidence-based medicine associations and victim-support groups as “anti-rights” – saying that it is under review.
SexMatters: "... talking about trans people with reference to their ‘biological sex’ and trans women as ‘biological males’.”
You might consider replacing "trans women" with "transwomen" -- compound word like "crayfish" which ain't. No sense in conceding -- in the slightest way, by word or deed -- that they actually qualify as women, as adult human females.
For backup, you might consider Wiktionary's usage note on the word:
Wiktionary; Usage notes:
Trans woman is often spelled with a space, with trans as an adjective modifying the noun woman, similar to Asian woman, tall woman, fat woman, etc.The unspaced spelling transwoman is sometimes used interchangeably, including by a few transgender people. However, it is often associated with views (notably gender-critical feminism) that hold that transgender women are not women, and thus require a separate word from woman to describe them; for this reason, many transgender people find transwoman offensive.
I noticed there was no apology given in their statement which says a lot about the content of character of the leadership of the organisation.😢. Clear language is even more necessary now that former "sensible" organisations are saying the quiet bit out loud. And in print. What they did is not "insane". It's methodological and calculated. We must stop using their doublespeak. They are now all "former" rights organisations. What they campaign for now are privileges. Privileges for Special Interest Groups. Special Interest Privileges at the expanse of women, children and same-sex attracted people of all ages.
It's been obvious for some time that Amnesty International are yet another captured " human rights " organisation, one of many. What about the human rights of women ,children and gay people of both sexes. It seems their rights don't count anymore. Shame on Amnesty International. They no longer deserve anyone's support. Well done to all who wrote to them condemning their stance on this horror.
I'm not 'gender critical' at all, and I'm not against anyone choosing to portray themselves in any way they wish. So the label GC feels apoor for to me. I'm a very pacific, open person and take an individual when I meet them as their own individual.
But
I'm against blanket affirmation. I'm against any group, whose judgement of those who don't comply, is dealt out in a forceful, indiscriminate way. I'm against the shaming treatment that goes along with the manipulating of professionals. I'm against the mass manipulation of professionals, and groups whose job is to specifically support the emotionally and mentally vulnerable.
I know what 'gender' is. I'm not critical of it- as a word or as a concept.
But I'm critical of misuse of it as a blanket philosophy, that is smothering the masses with manipulation under its headline.
I'm critical of the drivers of this current trend, the forcefulness of their manipulative marketing, and the sheep/ flying monkeys lazily- irresponsibly- carrying the drive without expending the effort to look more closely.
I'm critical of gross professional misconduct and irresponsibility, violence, bullying, grooming, manipulation, misuse of power, ego, ignorant self righteousness, profiteering, abuse and selfish virtue signalling.
If I could edit, I'd add that I'm also critical of fear-mongering divisiveness and its goal to isolate the already isolated. The goal to remove the voice of the vulnerable, to use the inability to self-advocate against those who are easily preyed apon.
Good to hear this. I donated to Amnesty International since my twenties, back then they focused on things like cruelty and lack of rights for political prisoners.
A representative of theirs rang me a few years ago. I told him that since the public statement by the head of Amnesty Ireland, i think it was...that people who were anti Trans ideology should lose the right to vote.. that they had lost my support and my money. Shameful.
They’ve been allied with Islamist groups since 2010.
This is from Chat GPT
“In February 2010, Gita Sahgal sent a leaked email to Amnesty’s leadership criticizing the charity's high-profile association with Moazzam Begg, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee and director of the advocacy group CAGE (formerly Cageprisoners).The Accusation: Sahgal labelled Begg as "Britain's most famous supporter of the Taliban". She argued that partnering with him for Amnesty's “Counter Terror with Justice” campaign fundamentally damaged the organization's integrity.The Conflict of Interest: As a long-time women's rights campaigner, Sahgal stated that allying with "pro-jihadi groups" directly undermined Amnesty’s work on women's rights. She claimed the partnership showed a "lazy alliance" between the human rights world and radical Islamists.”
I’m so disappointed by how much this once great charity has changed.
The mere fact that someone up high felt entitled to release such a biased document says everything about how little they are doing to ensure they remain focused on the issues they were set up to tackle.
Is this what donors thought they were funding? I doubt it.
The Australian branch is just as bad, I've written to both bodies to express my views and told them I'll never, ever, donate to them and encourage friends to do likewise. Absolutely appalled, but not in the least surprised.
Amnesty International used to focus on actual human rights abuses. Prisoners, marginalised groups, war zones... now they're all about trans too? Is the entire charity sector deranged now?
Feminists like JK Rowling have been leading the fight against “transgenderism” for years. And, in the US, it was Obama, a centrist, who first tried to redefine “sex” to include “gender identity” for purposes of Title IX (sports for girls and women). It was Biden, also a centrist, who said “transgenderism” is “ the civil rights issue of our time.” It’s inaccurate to blame the entirety of the Left for this mess. There’s lot of blame to go around.
You call Biden and Obama centrists but they aren’t centrists. They’re left wing. I’m defining them as left wing because they believe in the role of the state to provide and control whereas the state should not imo be a provider. To me the role of the state is simply to uphold the rights of others through the criminal law. The more somebody thinks the state should be in our faces, the more left wing. The more you believe in limiting the role of the state, the more right wing you are.
I would view JK as centrist for example.
Ultimately the blame lies with the globalists and trans humanists who believe they have the right to alter humans for their sick fetishes. They’re totalitarian and obsessed with control ie left wing.
They’re most definitely centrists. The right sees anyone to the left of them as “the Left,” which is laughable. When you say government as provider, do you include government providing massive tax subsidies and bailouts to major corporations and the very wealthy? Or is it just average Joe that you object to government aiding?
JK is a feminist. Feminists are considered part of the Left, at least by conservatives, who are currently blaming feminists for all the ills of the world. Stub a toe, blame a feminist.
By “globalist” and “trans humanist,” do you mean Peter Thiel and PayPal Mafia colleagues in the “New Right?” From a quick internet search:
“In recent years, Thiel and this tight-knit network of former PayPal colleagues—often referred to collectively as the ‘New Right’—have become major players in U.S. politics. Their backgrounds and political leanings have been heavily scrutinized. Critics and journalists have explored how their early experiences within the white elite of southern Africa and the apartheid system may have shaped their political ideologies, free-market libertarianism, and right-wing populist movements.”
You’re right wing if you want to pick government’s pockets, while your kids never go near a military recruiting site. “Taxes are for the little people.” Leona Helmsley
SexMatters: "... talking about trans people with reference to their ‘biological sex’ and trans women as ‘biological males’.”
You might consider replacing "trans women" with "transwomen" -- compound word like "crayfish" which ain't. No sense in conceding -- in the slightest way, by word or deed -- that they actually qualify as women, as adult human females.
For backup, you might consider Wiktionary's usage note on the word:
Wiktionary; Usage notes:
Trans woman is often spelled with a space, with trans as an adjective modifying the noun woman, similar to Asian woman, tall woman, fat woman, etc.The unspaced spelling transwoman is sometimes used interchangeably, including by a few transgender people. However, it is often associated with views (notably gender-critical feminism) that hold that transgender women are not women, and thus require a separate word from woman to describe them; for this reason, many transgender people find transwoman offensive.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trans_woman
Thanks for the info
Just another day living in the Transvestite Jihad on Planet Psychopath.
Just another day living in the Transvestite Jihad on Planet Psychopath.
I noticed there was no apology given in their statement which says a lot about the content of character of the leadership of the organisation.😢. Clear language is even more necessary now that former "sensible" organisations are saying the quiet bit out loud. And in print. What they did is not "insane". It's methodological and calculated. We must stop using their doublespeak. They are now all "former" rights organisations. What they campaign for now are privileges. Privileges for Special Interest Groups. Special Interest Privileges at the expanse of women, children and same-sex attracted people of all ages.
It's been obvious for some time that Amnesty International are yet another captured " human rights " organisation, one of many. What about the human rights of women ,children and gay people of both sexes. It seems their rights don't count anymore. Shame on Amnesty International. They no longer deserve anyone's support. Well done to all who wrote to them condemning their stance on this horror.
I'm not 'gender critical' at all, and I'm not against anyone choosing to portray themselves in any way they wish. So the label GC feels apoor for to me. I'm a very pacific, open person and take an individual when I meet them as their own individual.
But
I'm against blanket affirmation. I'm against any group, whose judgement of those who don't comply, is dealt out in a forceful, indiscriminate way. I'm against the shaming treatment that goes along with the manipulating of professionals. I'm against the mass manipulation of professionals, and groups whose job is to specifically support the emotionally and mentally vulnerable.
I know what 'gender' is. I'm not critical of it- as a word or as a concept.
But I'm critical of misuse of it as a blanket philosophy, that is smothering the masses with manipulation under its headline.
I'm critical of the drivers of this current trend, the forcefulness of their manipulative marketing, and the sheep/ flying monkeys lazily- irresponsibly- carrying the drive without expending the effort to look more closely.
I'm critical of gross professional misconduct and irresponsibility, violence, bullying, grooming, manipulation, misuse of power, ego, ignorant self righteousness, profiteering, abuse and selfish virtue signalling.
If I could edit, I'd add that I'm also critical of fear-mongering divisiveness and its goal to isolate the already isolated. The goal to remove the voice of the vulnerable, to use the inability to self-advocate against those who are easily preyed apon.
I think I'm done...
You CAN edit. See the horizontal row of three dots in the top right of your comment. 😉🙂
Thank you!
What are they thinking!?! They’re on the wrong side of history and a tertiary look at the evidence would tell them that.
Thanks for this, guys
Have cross posted
https://dustymasterson.substack.com/p/harry-potter-and-the-chamber-of-secrets
Dusty
Thanks Amnesty for giving me a list of organisations to support over and above those I already fund
Apologies are necessary!
Good to hear this. I donated to Amnesty International since my twenties, back then they focused on things like cruelty and lack of rights for political prisoners.
A representative of theirs rang me a few years ago. I told him that since the public statement by the head of Amnesty Ireland, i think it was...that people who were anti Trans ideology should lose the right to vote.. that they had lost my support and my money. Shameful.
They’ve been allied with Islamist groups since 2010.
This is from Chat GPT
“In February 2010, Gita Sahgal sent a leaked email to Amnesty’s leadership criticizing the charity's high-profile association with Moazzam Begg, a former Guantanamo Bay detainee and director of the advocacy group CAGE (formerly Cageprisoners).The Accusation: Sahgal labelled Begg as "Britain's most famous supporter of the Taliban". She argued that partnering with him for Amnesty's “Counter Terror with Justice” campaign fundamentally damaged the organization's integrity.The Conflict of Interest: As a long-time women's rights campaigner, Sahgal stated that allying with "pro-jihadi groups" directly undermined Amnesty’s work on women's rights. She claimed the partnership showed a "lazy alliance" between the human rights world and radical Islamists.”
I’m so disappointed by how much this once great charity has changed.
The mere fact that someone up high felt entitled to release such a biased document says everything about how little they are doing to ensure they remain focused on the issues they were set up to tackle.
Is this what donors thought they were funding? I doubt it.
The Australian branch is just as bad, I've written to both bodies to express my views and told them I'll never, ever, donate to them and encourage friends to do likewise. Absolutely appalled, but not in the least surprised.
Amnesty is also a deeply antisemitic organization. It’s time for it to go bankrupt.
Amnesty International used to focus on actual human rights abuses. Prisoners, marginalised groups, war zones... now they're all about trans too? Is the entire charity sector deranged now?
Yes, I can’t understand why people waste their money on far left derangement
Feminists like JK Rowling have been leading the fight against “transgenderism” for years. And, in the US, it was Obama, a centrist, who first tried to redefine “sex” to include “gender identity” for purposes of Title IX (sports for girls and women). It was Biden, also a centrist, who said “transgenderism” is “ the civil rights issue of our time.” It’s inaccurate to blame the entirety of the Left for this mess. There’s lot of blame to go around.
You call Biden and Obama centrists but they aren’t centrists. They’re left wing. I’m defining them as left wing because they believe in the role of the state to provide and control whereas the state should not imo be a provider. To me the role of the state is simply to uphold the rights of others through the criminal law. The more somebody thinks the state should be in our faces, the more left wing. The more you believe in limiting the role of the state, the more right wing you are.
I would view JK as centrist for example.
Ultimately the blame lies with the globalists and trans humanists who believe they have the right to alter humans for their sick fetishes. They’re totalitarian and obsessed with control ie left wing.
They’re most definitely centrists. The right sees anyone to the left of them as “the Left,” which is laughable. When you say government as provider, do you include government providing massive tax subsidies and bailouts to major corporations and the very wealthy? Or is it just average Joe that you object to government aiding?
JK is a feminist. Feminists are considered part of the Left, at least by conservatives, who are currently blaming feminists for all the ills of the world. Stub a toe, blame a feminist.
By “globalist” and “trans humanist,” do you mean Peter Thiel and PayPal Mafia colleagues in the “New Right?” From a quick internet search:
“In recent years, Thiel and this tight-knit network of former PayPal colleagues—often referred to collectively as the ‘New Right’—have become major players in U.S. politics. Their backgrounds and political leanings have been heavily scrutinized. Critics and journalists have explored how their early experiences within the white elite of southern Africa and the apartheid system may have shaped their political ideologies, free-market libertarianism, and right-wing populist movements.”
I think most people are on the right even though they claim to be left. If you don’t want the state in your face that’s a sign you’re right wing 😊
You’re right wing if you want to pick government’s pockets, while your kids never go near a military recruiting site. “Taxes are for the little people.” Leona Helmsley