Jon Pike
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@runthinkwrite
Professor of Philosophy @OU_Philosophy. Political philosophy and the ethics and metaphysics of sport. @OU_GCRN (RT ≠ endorsement, all views personal, obvs.)
This has got to be a parody. I see though that the British Sociological Association is on the list and accused of collaboration. I dodged a bullet there as I have never been a member of it.
We also emailed @amnesty last week following their libellous characterisation of LWD & other feminist, LGB, parent & clinician orgs as 'anti rights', on the basis of us being 'gender critical' or promoting 'conversion practices'. This latter accusation is particularly egregious given the govt's recent publication of a badly drafted CP Ban Bill which would criminalise the concerns of parents & feminists like ourselves who oppose the harms to young people of puberty blockers & "gender affirming" care. Along with @LesbianLabour & @LabourLGB, we are socialists & feminists who reject the sexist stereotypes of the gender identity politics which has, sadly, crept into much of the left & parts of the @UKLabour party. All polling shows we reflect the views of the majority of Labour members & voters - and, probably, of Amnesty supporters too. We await with interest Amnesty's prompt reply to our letter...
If I were an official in any organization, the last people I would go after are British TERFs. They've already brought down a First Minister, forced the government to acknowledge that women are female, driven Stonewall to the brink of bankruptcy and gotten gender critical beliefs protected under British law. Why would you even f**k with them?
We were also libelled alongside @jk_rowling’s @beirasplace in this poorly researched & defamatory hit piece from disgraced former human rights charity @amnesty. Firstly amnesty clearly know nothing about our group as they listed us a ‘gender critical’ group. We are not. We are a child #safeguarding group. If Amnesty feel that standing up for child protection is ‘anti rights’ then we have a lot of questions regarding exactly what ‘rights’ Amnesty are advocating for. We are aware that many people object to effective child safeguarding & that those that do will resort to slurs & name calling. This is nothing new & is to be expected. We are not affiliated to any other group named in Amnesty’s disgraceful ‘briefing review’. Some of the other organisations we have never heard of. Those that we have heard of our understanding is that they campaign on issues such as women’s rights, Gay rights, Lesbian rights, free speech or like ourselves child protection. Hardly issues that any sensible person could interpret as ‘anti rights’. We hope that one of the larger groups will be taking legal action. The @ChtyCommission should also investigate but based on past experience we do not hold out much hope. Once again when a child safeguarding organisation is being attacked & libelled like this it is further evidence that a #PublicInquiry is needed into the infiltration of safeguarding. There are widespread systemic failures & public & professional understanding of what effective safeguarding actually entails is currently extremely poor. The biggest right children have is the right to be protected by the adults in their society, particularly their parents. #RestoreSafeguarding #Edutwitter #WomenEd
@LucyHunterB @tlitb @AmnestyUK I love that they think we would all be onto the lawyers at a weekend!
I hope that they lose their charitable status until they return their original purpose - doing what they can about TORTURE
Sex Matters has written to @amnesty @AmnestyUK about the two reports "A growing threat" and "Like a snowball" which accuse the UK gender critical movement of being "anti-rights". We point out the arguments published under Amnesty’s name are: 🚨 Defamatory slurs against named organisations 🚨Explicit encouragement to donors and the Charity Commission to discriminate unlawfully 🚨Discriminatory and harassing against Amnesty's own gender-critical staff 🚨Contrary to statutory safeguarding guidance for schools that Amnesty seeks to work with 🚨Inconsistent with the objects of the charity.
Beira's Place, the women's sexual assault support centre founded by JK Rowling, has been labelled an "anti-rights group" by Amnesty International UK, alongside For Women Scotland. Story @heraldscotland 👇 heraldscotland.com/news/26268863.…
