Justine Lattimer

Barrister specialising in the protection of children and vulnerable adults. Views my own. RT not necessarily endorsement.

[Rebel Ada @DearRebelAda]

1. Thanks to our physio student for sharing his research interest. He noticed lack of data on women’s sports injuries, found huge difference in susceptibility to concussion.
M concuss at 98 g force
F concuss at 43 g
both with variation of 15 each way. So
https://t.co/Cn20xSPQqV

[HeCheated.org @hecheateddotorg]

So men ignoring international and national federation rules so they can put women's safety at risk and cheat women out of athletic achievement.

Not exactly something to be proud of.

I'm not sure it was wise to include pictures of these guys in your article. They're absolute brutes.

[For Women Scotland @ForWomenScot]

"Amnesty has campaigned for safe spaces in refugee camps to protect women from sexual violence, and it supports single-sex toilets in schools across sub-Saharan Africa so that girls can manage their menstrual hygiene in safety and privacy. Yet in an astonishing display of hypocrisy, Amnesty argues that Beira’s Place, established by author and women’s rights campaigner JK Rowling, is “anti-rights” because it is for women and girls only."

THIS!

[MoMaBreastfeeding @MoMaBfing]

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[MoMaBreastfeeding @MoMaBfing]

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[SEEN in Publishing @SEENPublishing]

The @DailyMail has published a major story based on Through the Looking Glass, exposing how outside education providers are smuggling in transactivist literature into primary schools. @ProtectTeach contributed. 🧵1/ @biologyinmed @Transgendertrd https://t.co/Bhaad8QkVZ

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

Claire Methven O’Brien is taking legal action against the Scottish Human Rights Commission as she claims discrimination for her views on the Sandie Peggie case https://t.co/iJ8DcQ8p0Y

[Maya Forstater @MForstater]

Claire Methven O'Brien has been one of the few human rights experts to recognise that women's human rights are harmed when the administrative categories of "male" and "female" are made mixed sex.

As a human rights commissioner she should have been able to say this. It was her job to say it.

Now she is bringing a discrimination claim.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Amnesty UK was already smearing feminists as 'anti-rights' back in May, according to @thetimes. It appears that, far from being an accidental slip up or an editorial error, the latest defamatory report accurately represents Amnesty UK's deep-seated hostility to all organisations that believe sex is real and important in contexts such as same sex attraction and healing after sexual violence and trauma.

Those who've been defamed are owed an explanation of why Amnesty claimed to have withdrawn the report because of its 'language' when, per @thetimes article, it had already expressed exactly the same beliefs, in the same language, months previously.

Many of the organisations Amnesty has attacked are grassroots campaigners with a tiny fraction of a gigantic, well-funded international NGO's resources. The defamatory report has already had serious consequences for a service supporting women at the most vulnerable time of their lives, as detailed by Beira's Place lawyers in the legal letter sent two days ago. The withdrawing of the report cannot undo the harm it has already done and is continuing to do.

If Amnesty is under the illusion that the women's, children's and gay rights organisations it has attacked will be unwilling to go to court, they have made yet another massive error of judgement. They underestimate both the solidarity that exists between the targeted organisations and my willingness to support legal action, not just on behalf of Beira's Place, but for all women's and LGB organisations falsely branded 'anti-rights.'

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

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.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Amnesty is no longer the organisation that defended all who were persecuted for their freedom of speech. It has become a self-appointed, vainglorious policeman of wrongthink. It tweets out ideological slogans. It demonises those who disagree with those slogans. It intervened in FWS v Scottish Ministers, on the side of those determined to keep men in women’s prisons and rape crisis centres.

Some of us haven’t forgotten that Amnesty stopped supporting the since-murdered prisoner of conscience Alexei Navalny because they deemed he’d said unacceptable things in the past. They reversed that decision due to public backlash, exactly as they withdrew the recent defamatory report, before I or anyone else had responded to it, because they panicked on seeing the reaction. A cynic might think they changed their minds on both occasions, not on principle, but because they were afraid of losing money.

You cannot be simultaneously an impartial defender of freedom and speech and a wealthy international witch hunter that publicly vilifies and intimidates small campaigning groups with whom you disagree. As for ‘silencing’ Amnesty, I have neither the power nor the desire to do so. I want them to explain as loudly and extensively as possible why they are using their might and formerly lustrous reputation to attack small non-violent campaigning organisations with legally protected beliefs.

[Gethin Chamberlain @newsandpics]

Not content with publishing a report branding women’s and gay and lesbian groups as “anti-rights”, Amnesty International UK has been running a free course for anyone to learn how to oppose what it calls the “anti-gender movement”. 🧵

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

And what do you propose women’s rights should be based on instead of our sex, dear guru? Special lady feels? Spinny skirts and lipstick? Candyfloss coloured souls?

[Gethin Chamberlain @newsandpics]

Amnesty are finding out the hard way that if you are going to publish serious allegations, you need to ask yourself two key questions: are they true and can the subject of the allegations afford to sue? But not necessarily in that order.

[Genspect @genspect]

“The report by the British chapter of the global charity claims gender-critical people — those who believe a woman is a biological female and a man is a biological male — represent ‘a movement against the rights of women and LGBTI people.’”

Defending sex-based rights, evidence-based medical care, and open debate is not “anti-rights,” and those who do so deserve fair representation, not defamatory labels.

New piece from The Times. ⬇️

[Naomi Cunningham @LoudBonnet]

The Charity Commission has long been part of the problem. Let's hope this shameful incident is a wake-up call.

[Ronni Nicole #KPSS @RonniNicole1]

"Charity Commission launches probe into Amnesty International after JK Rowling's charity threatens legal action

JK Rowling sent scathing legal letter to the UK subsidiary of the international charity following the critical report"
https://t.co/k4AspurCpf

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

Amnesty have properly self referred to the Charity Commission via a "Serious Incident Report". Good. It is time for the Commission to get involved and sort this authoritarian and silly behaviour out. Amnesty must stop publishing insulting lists of political enemies.

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

Please stop doing this @SkyNews.

The guidance is just guidance. The law hasn't changed. Single sex facilities should always have been single sex. The clue is in the name.

The only slight change was last yr when the Sup Ct cleared up some confusion about the effect of a GRC.