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I was a member of Amnesty International for many years. I ceased to be a member a few months ago because of statements like these 👇🏼, which go beyond what is reasonably tolerable in the context of what is at stake: the systematic violation of human rights on the basis of sex.
A human rights organisation should be more cautious when it comes to making statements that wipe victims off the map or, worse, blame them for "choosing" to be victims.
I find it outrageous to insinuate that those in Afghanistan who "identify" as women are the ones who suffer.
Being a woman is an unmodifiable biological fact with which one is born and dies.
During their lifetime, in many cultures, women have their clitoris removed in infancy, have their breasts flattened, are isolated and locked away when they menstruate, are discriminated against, expelled from the community or killed for out of marriage pregnancies, risk their lives in dangerous abortions, are raped and controlled because of their limited physical strength, and so on and so forth.
None of this is imaginary. None of that happens to them because they "think" they are women. It happens to them because they are women.
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Helen Staniland@helenstaniland
From the Amnesty website. It's just insulting to the women and girls of Afghanistan - and actually everywhere - to even hint at their oppression under the Taliban being due to 'identifying as a girl' rather than being born female. @amnesty
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