Ok, sorry, but still, men

The usual adamant refusal to be clear.

Amnesty claims it regrets.

Amnesty International UK has said it regrets a report which labelled JK Rowling’s sexual assault support centre for women ‘anti-rights’.

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Amnesty International UK has said it regrets a report which labelled JK Rowling’s sexual assault support centre for women ‘anti-rights’.

Has it said why it regrets the report? Does it regret the report because the report is shit, or because people noticed that it’s shit?

Amnesty summons up a lot of words:

“Amnesty International conducts independent research and campaigns on human rights issues worldwide, and works alongside victims and communities on the frontlines of the struggle for dignity and justice. This work includes a long‑standing and explicit commitment to gender justice, including the rights of women, LGBTQI and trans people.”

Trans people get counted twice. But more to the point: as usual, women must not have their rights supported without instant follow-up mention of LGBTQIZFRDNM people. If you say women have rights you have to mention someone else who has rights; no exceptions. Women must not be allowed to take center stage, ever.

In a published list of 117 UK organisations, Amnesty International mentions Beira’s Place under “gender critical” in the anti-rights category.

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 organisation’s three co-founders – Trina Budge, Marion Calder and Susan Smith – have written to Amnesty to warn the report contributes to “reputational harm” against For Women Scotland.

The letter states: “We note that your primary charitable object is to promote human rights. Women also have human rights. We recently won a case in Scotland to protect the human rights of incarcerated women in Scotland. The old Amnesty would have taken that case rather than attack the women who brought it.

“We now ask that you apologise to FWS for the malicious characterisation of our organisation in your report.”

Women also have human rights. Women are half of humanity, and they are the half that reproduces humanity. Without women, no humanity. You’d think that would count.