davidjay wrote: ↑Fri Jul 24, 2026 11:56 am Sadly, that's modern politics.And that is why they'll never achieve their aims until they change their tactics.
Good Law Project has apologised to members of the trans community and withdrawn its ‘Monster’ campaign after concerns were raised about how it had been received.With allies like this who needs enemies?
In a statement issued by executive director Jo Maugham, the legal campaign organisation said it had listened to criticism from the trans community and instructed its media partners, including Scene, to remove the campaign.
The campaign, titled Monster, was created by artist Martin Firrell and was intended to address what the organisation described as opposition to trans people's rights, spaces and joy. According to the Good Law Project, the campaign was designed to speak primarily to cisgender audiences and had been positively received during testing with allies and members of the team involved in its development, including trans people.
Crabcakes wrote: ↑Fri Jul 24, 2026 6:43 pm Given the rollback of rights going on at the moment, would it really be a surprise if being more aggressive wasn’t the response?Yup, stuff like that and the Park Run stuff, the aim of anti trans people (and that is what they are) is to eradicate them from society.
For example, you have a millionaire openly funding a group that seeks out other organisations doing no harm and just happily getting on, like the ladies swimming ponds in London, and taking them to court to enforce laws they don’t want to and their members haven’t asked for, with the sole aim of isolating and making life worse for a few people in that group.
If I were in a group others wanted to make disappear primarily to ease their own distaste, I might be inclined to be a bit aggressive myself.
We apologise for the publication of the briefing “A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK.” This document should never have been published, and full responsibility for this error rests with Amnesty International UK.
The briefing was taken down within 48 hours of publication, as soon as management were notified of its existence, was not actively promoted, and will not be republished. We have an ongoing internal investigation into how this briefing came to be published.
Whilst we do not share the views of all these organisations, we recognise the concerns raised by those labelled as “anti-rights” in the document. To be clear: this labelling does not represent our institutional position, and we apologise for its inclusion. In particular, we apologise to Beira’s Place and other groups, which we categorised as gender critical organisations, which we should not have collectively labelled as anti-rights. We have also taken down an earlier more discursive briefing (entitled Like A Snowball) which also referenced a wide range of organisations.
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AIUK remains fully committed to defending the human rights, dignity, and equality of all marginalised groups, including women, girls, and members of the trans community.
The Weeping Angel wrote: ↑Sat Aug 01, 2026 6:00 pm Amnesty's apology in full.Well that's put a target on Amnesty's back.
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap ... july-2026/
We apologise for the publication of the briefing “A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK.” This document should never have been published, and full responsibility for this error rests with Amnesty International UK.
The briefing was taken down within 48 hours of publication, as soon as management were notified of its existence, was not actively promoted, and will not be republished. We have an ongoing internal investigation into how this briefing came to be published.
Whilst we do not share the views of all these organisations, we recognise the concerns raised by those labelled as “anti-rights” in the document. To be clear: this labelling does not represent our institutional position, and we apologise for its inclusion. In particular, we apologise to Beira’s Place and other groups, which we categorised as gender critical organisations, which we should not have collectively labelled as anti-rights. We have also taken down an earlier more discursive briefing (entitled Like A Snowball) which also referenced a wide range of organisations.
AIUK holds itself to the highest standards of research, evidence and editorial oversight in all its publications. We have concluded that this briefing fell significantly short of those standards. We will commission an independent external review to learn from this moment.
AIUK remains fully committed to defending the human rights, dignity, and equality of all marginalised groups, including women, girls, and members of the trans community.
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