Wording tweaks.
It’s a long article and it talks about women and girls throughout.
The original wording was “for the ‘crime’ of being born as a girl” and I think they must have gotten complaints about “born as” and so tweaked it. Their original point was the old familiar one that being born as the “wrong” race or class or nationality or sex is not actually a crime, but we can’t make that point any more in the case of sex.
They should have refused and said “fuck off” but still, I don’t think this one “identifies as” negates the whole article.
H/t Arty
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You have a kinder heart than I do, Ophelia. I interpret it exactly as the tweeter does; and I’d also like to complain about the past tense. What’s that about?
Nah, it’s not about kindness at all, just trying to get it right, because getting it wrong doesn’t help.
Why the past tense is because it’s an article about the history, which it says right up front.
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/womens-rights-afghanistan-history