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Amnesty International UK Caves To JK Rowling, Issues Apology For Calling Anti-Trans Groups "Anti-Rights"
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Regardless of your feelings on Rowling, Amnesty UK fucked up big time and realized it. For better or worse, the UK doesn't have the same speech protections or values that other countries like the US do. Throwing around vague labels like "anti-rights" was a terrible idea.
Anti-trans is, by definition, anti-rights because it is denying trans people their right to exist and receive the medical care they need (that is readily available to cis people for a myriad of conditions).
I'm saddened that Amnesty UK caved on the issue, whether they legally had to or not. Every concession emboldens the anti-trans mob to use more of their resources to silence and oppose societal progress whenever their feelings get hurt.
That argument applies much more to other organizations listed in the report. But even in the article, Beira's Place is described as
She didn't like the way an organization was run, and made her own. The case can be made that it's anti-rights, but thoughtlessly throwing around labels like Amnesty UK did here against someone with the time, money, and motivation to respond with lawyers was an own goal.