Amnesty International were just forced to pull down a report on "anti-rights" groups in the UK
Jul. 14th, 2026 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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It's also here, btw: https://web.archive.org/web/20260709084603/https://media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Report_-_A_growing_threat__the_anti-rights_movement_in_the_UK_July_2026.pdf
You see, according to some people, it might be defamatory to call groups campaigning to take rights away from trans people "anti-rights", because the official line from people like Kishwer Falkner and Akua Reindorf is that trans people never really had those rights, they just imagined they did because of bodies like the EHRC officially telling them they did (prior to the EHRC being institutionally captured when Kemi Badenoch deliberately appointed a "gender critical" head).
So if you ban them from doing things they've been allowed to do for at least forty years (like using gender-appropriate toilets), that's not taking rights away. And this is a logical and reasonable argument and not jawdropping levels of gaslighting.
And it doesn't matter if a court would eventually decide that it is legally permissible to call these groups "anti-rights" if someone can pour unlimited funds into bleeding Amnesty dry dragging them through the courts, because English defamation law lets you do that.
Did you know the only anti-SLAPP law in the UK relates specifically to the disclosure of economic crime and not anything else?
Anyway, as someone governed by English defamation law, I cannot comment without conclusive and legally-defensible evidence on whether the removal of the report was connected to the billionaire who is offering to fund groups named as "anti-rights" to sue Amnesty:
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3mqkm7t7pq22e
Unclear if I am legally able to suggest that the prominent group blaming George Soros for funding Amnesty might, perhaps, be a tad antisemitic:
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3mqlarqvy422x
The other recent report Amnesty put out about the "gender critical" movement specifically is still up, though. For now:
https://bsky.app/profile/beesandrikishis.bsky.social/post/3mqlno4cbds2j
https://media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Like_a_snowball_final_.pdf
I'd like to think we all know what to do:
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3mqhxbimgi22h
https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mqlokwyuvs24
It's also here, btw: https://web.archive.org/web/20260709084603/https://media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Report_-_A_growing_threat__the_anti-rights_movement_in_the_UK_July_2026.pdf
You see, according to some people, it might be defamatory to call groups campaigning to take rights away from trans people "anti-rights", because the official line from people like Kishwer Falkner and Akua Reindorf is that trans people never really had those rights, they just imagined they did because of bodies like the EHRC officially telling them they did (prior to the EHRC being institutionally captured when Kemi Badenoch deliberately appointed a "gender critical" head).
So if you ban them from doing things they've been allowed to do for at least forty years (like using gender-appropriate toilets), that's not taking rights away. And this is a logical and reasonable argument and not jawdropping levels of gaslighting.
And it doesn't matter if a court would eventually decide that it is legally permissible to call these groups "anti-rights" if someone can pour unlimited funds into bleeding Amnesty dry dragging them through the courts, because English defamation law lets you do that.
Did you know the only anti-SLAPP law in the UK relates specifically to the disclosure of economic crime and not anything else?
Anyway, as someone governed by English defamation law, I cannot comment without conclusive and legally-defensible evidence on whether the removal of the report was connected to the billionaire who is offering to fund groups named as "anti-rights" to sue Amnesty:
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3mqkm7t7pq22e
Unclear if I am legally able to suggest that the prominent group blaming George Soros for funding Amnesty might, perhaps, be a tad antisemitic:
https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3mqlarqvy422x
The other recent report Amnesty put out about the "gender critical" movement specifically is still up, though. For now:
https://bsky.app/profile/beesandrikishis.bsky.social/post/3mqlno4cbds2j
https://media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Like_a_snowball_final_.pdf
I'd like to think we all know what to do: