Amnesty is a very wealthy international NGO that has attempted to restrict the range of acceptable expression by smearing other organisations, which hold legally-protected beliefs and are protecting their own rights in law, as ‘anti-rights.’
None of the defamed organisations are removing rights from trans people. Women and LGB people have simply refused to give up their own rights and freedom of speech to accomodate the notion that humans can change sex.
You and your ilk are the quasi-religious authoritarians here. You defame and persecute all who refuse to accept your unfalsifiable belief system, and seek to punish heretics. In another age, you’d have been among the most enthusiastic witch-hunters, and then, as now, you’d be utterly convinced of your unimpeachable rectitude.
Your apology for labelling women-only rape support centre Beira's Place 'anti-rights' is a nice birthday present, @AmnestyUK. Cheers.
And congratulations to all the other women's and LGB organisations Amnesty acknowledges having wrongly smeared as 'anti-rights'.
Trans-identified men in Edinburgh are fortunate enough to be welcome at the Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre, which was headed for a while by a trans-identified man who believed, and said publicly, that women who wanted a female-only service were bigots. That same rape centre admitted a male as a client because he called himself non-binary. The man was subsequently convicted for rape.
Beira’s Place was set up by me to provide women in Edinburgh and the Lothians with the female-only service they were being denied. Internal emails between ERRC staff were revealed during an unrelated court case, which showed them to be angry and dismayed that there was now an alternative service for women. One might have thought, reading those emails, that ERRC staff’s priority was the ideological conversion of rape survivors rather than the provision of a service that traumatised women required to feel safe after rape.
Beira’s Place has been exceptionally busy since it opened. We’ve taken on more staff and are currently looking for larger premises. We’ve helped women who’ve admitted that they didn’t want to use the alternative rape centre because of its very loud and public ‘trans women are women’ stance. We are also open to any and all trans-identified women who need support after rape.
In short, you’ll be relieved to hear that the trans-identified men for whom you feel such empathy and compassion aren’t losing out. It was biological women who were being shamed for their entirely legitimate desire for a male-free space. Apparently you’d have preferred that situation to continue, but I think you’ll find that most people, whether male or female, will see that as evidence of your cruelty, not mine.
I’m often tickled by press articles asserting that I’m furious about things that actually gave me a proper belly laugh. This time, though, knock yourselves out. Amnesty’s attack on Beira’s Place has left me burning with the kind of fury that mounts with every passing hour.
“Amnesty has been misrepresenting and denigrating anyone who recognises the biological and legal importance of the two sexes for several years now.” @MForstater in @thetimes on Amnesty’s earlier report, published in May and still on its website.
https://t.co/yVV1XXM7M9
Sex Matters has written to @amnesty@AmnestyUK about the two reports "A growing threat" and "Like a snowball" which accuse the UK gender critical movement of being "anti-rights".
We point out the arguments published under Amnesty’s name are:
🚨 Defamatory slurs against named organisations
🚨Explicit encouragement to donors and the Charity Commission to discriminate unlawfully
🚨Discriminatory and harassing against Amnesty's own gender-critical staff
🚨Contrary to statutory safeguarding guidance for schools that Amnesty seeks to work with
🚨Inconsistent with the objects of the charity.
@adamboultonTABB She’s just some old woman in your eyes who (according to you) no one wanted to shag. Which just about says it all. About YOU.
Was she asking for it??? Utter Bastard.