The Herald (Scotland):
JK Rowling’s support centre for female sexual assault victims – Beira’s Place – has been labelled an “anti-rights” group by Amnesty International UK.
Beira’s Place was founded in 2022 by the Harry Potter author to provide trauma-informed support service to women survivors of sexual abuse. The organisation labels itself as “women-only” and does not include transgender people.
It doesn’t include giraffes, either; what’s your point?
Amnesty updated its report this month to include 51 gender critical groups, including For Women Scotland and Beira’s Place.
It warns the UK had experienced a “significant decline” in protections for LGBT+ rights, with the nation falling from first to 22nd place in the ILGA-Europe (International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association).
Wait. ILGA has to mean International Lesbian, Gay Association. ILGA is not ILGABTI. Somebody here is hiding something.
In a published list of 117 UK organisations, Amnesty International mentions Beira’s Place under “gender critical” in the anti-rights categories.
Amnesty International also condemns For Women Scotland – the group of women who took the Scottish Government to court over policies which allowed transgender women – born male – to take up female-only spaces on public boards.
The group has also recently had a successful legal victory over the Scottish Government and the Scottish Prison Service’s placement of trans people in the female prison estate.
The Scottish Government confirmed it would not appeal the decision and has removed all trans women from staying in the female estate, however further clarity is sought on whether transwomen are restricted from accessing women’s-only services in prisons.
If they’re not they should be. Enough already. Stop pretending it’s progressive to force women to share everything with men.
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