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Amnesty International UK has apologised and withdrawn a report that outlined the erosion of women’s and LGBTQ+ rights in the UK after backlash and legal threats backed by author JK Rowling.
The report, titled “A Growing Threat: The Anti-Rights Movement in the UK,” identified more than 100 organisations involved in campaigns affecting the rights of marginalised groups, including LGBTQ+ people, migrants and other communities. It also examined the funding networks behind some of these movements, including several organisations associated with the UK’s “gender critical” movement.
Among those named were groups such as Sex Matters and Beira’s Place, a r*pe crisis centre founded with support from Rowling that does not provide services to transgender women. Amnesty’s report classified some “gender-critical” organisations as part of the broader “anti-rights” movement—a description that sparked immediate backlash.
After publication, activists threatened legal action, with Rowling offering support through her JK Rowling Women’s Fund, a private fund launched to provide legal support to people and organisations challenging what they consider discrimination based on beliefs about biological sex.
Within 48 hours, Amnesty removed the report. Three weeks later, on 31 July, the organisation issued a full apology, saying the briefing “should never have been published” and that categorising gender-critical organisations as “anti-rights” “does not represent our institutional position.”
Amnesty said it had launched an internal investigation and would commission an independent external review, but it did not identify specific factual errors in the report or retract individual findings.
Rowling celebrated the apology online in a 31 July X post, thanking Amnesty for acknowledging that Beira’s Place and other organisations had been “wrongly smeared” as anti-rights.
Amnesty International UK said it remains committed to defending “the human rights, dignity, and equality of all marginalised groups, including women, girls, and members of the trans community.”
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