Amnesty U.K. What’s going on?

satire by Moley

Like many women I have ceased to donate to Amnesty following the revelation they took advice from Pimp Lobby groups before adopting the slogan #SexWorkIsWork; this is an ideological stance that seeks to sanitise prostitution for the benefit of those who profiteer from the sale of, mainly, women’s bodies, as exposed by Kat Banyard.

The majority of the sold are women and the purchasers are, almost invariably, male. A purported human rights organisation that prioritises male sexual entitlement over their victims is a Human Rights organisation only because they self-identify as such.

As if to remove all doubt about their anti-women stance, Amnesty Ireland signed a letter that castigated women for defending their sex-based rights. Below is an astonishing foray into the controversy of allowing men to self-identify as women. Women who point out the conflict with sex-based rights are lazily conflated with far-right organisations and, Amnesty argues, should be denied representation for these views.

You can read the letter in full here: Open Letter

Here is a flavour.

Amnesty also have a dedicated page to a trans-identified male, Shon Faye.

Faye was invited to represent women at an Amnesty U.K. “Women making His-Story” festival. Here is an excerpt from Shon’s speech at that event, effectively demanding women no longer centre women in their activism.

Amnesty U.K also made a startling intervention in the Keira Bell case. Keira is a detransitioned woman who was put on cross-sex hormones and had a double mastectomy before she re-identified with her sex. The High Court judgment arising from her case prevented administration of puberty blockers to under 16s without a court order. It was hoped the judgement would halt the practice of blocking puberty for children as young as ten, setting them on an irreversible path to lifelong medical dependence.

So why did a Human Rights organisation set itself against this judgement? The presiding, High Court, judges did not believe that children, under 16, could give informed consent to an experimental treatment with such significant implications; for physical and psychological development. They further cautioned, even for those age 16 and 17, an endocrinologist may wish to get court approval.

Here is Amnesty’s statement at the time:

The judgement was subsequently overturned, though Stonewall and Mermaids were not granted the right to be party to the appeal. It is unclear whether there will be a further appeal to the Supreme court to try to reinstate protections for vulnerable children/adolescents being treated at the Tavistock gender clinics.

A cursory look at Amnesty’s financial statements, December 2019, demonstrate their adherence to the tenets of Transgender Ideology. Here is a statement which states a goal to protect “Gender” and “Gender Identity”. No mention of sex, even though that is a legally protected characteristic, under U.K law and “Gender Identity” is not. It is impossible to define “Gender Identity” without using circular references. How can you have an “internal sense of oneself”, as a woman or a man, without first defining what a woman or man is? Invariably they appeal to sexist expectations based on stereotypes which feminists have been railing against for centuries.

A cursory glance at their accounts shows they have one project to look at sex-based issues which impact on women and girls. Female Genital Mutilation and forced, early, marriage. A lot of these charities, with an international remit, recognise sex based oppression and abuse, when it occurs overseas, but deny it in the Northern Hemisphere.

I do wonder who runs the cognitive dissonance department.

Perhaps the explanation for the stance Amnesty U.K. takes is influenced by the chair of their LGBTI network which tells its own tale.

Amnesty may do excellent work overseas and in the area of International Human Rights. Women’s rights are not, however, safe in their hands.

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