Amnesty International UK has now apologised for the publication of its briefing A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK, stating
This document should never have been published, and full responsibility for this error rests with Amnesty International UK.
Previously, the outfit was under growing pressure after experiencing pushback from a number of organisations it smeared for their alleged ‘anti-trans’ or ‘transphobic’ outlook.
A Growing Threat was published on July 8th, 2026, and removed just two days later. The hasty response—from an organisation which took two years to acknowledge the Hamas October 7th atrocities—was prompted by a backlash from many of the groups the report berated for being part of an “anti-rights” movement. Past donors also raised concern about Amnesty’s capture by gender ideology.
The most pressing threat to Amnesty came from Beira’s Place, a women-only women’s refuge set up by J.K. Rowling. Lawyers acting for the charity accused Amnesty of defaming the organisation and have threatened legal action. Rowling has invited those on the “blacklist”—from the LGB Alliance to a now-defunct group dedicated to keeping men out of women’s prisons—to apply to the JK Rowling Women’s Fund to help with legal costs.
A Growing Threat claimed that a key UK Supreme Court ruling, that ‘sex’ in Section 10 of the Equalities Act means is defined biologically, has led to discrimination (and worse) against ‘trans’ people, mostly crossdressing men who claim to be female. Amnesty now claims to ‘regret’ compiling the list, and its head was urged to quit over the report and related documentation. It also reported itself to the Charity Commission for England and Wales for investigation.
On a lighter note, Britain’s self-beclowning Good Law Project (GLP) suffered another setback in the same week, when trans activists attacked it for an expensive poster campaign featuring pictures of sharks and dinosaurs with the slogan
Of course I support trans — I’m not a monster
Trans activists tore into the messaging, saying it associated them with monstrosity, forcing GLP legal guru Jolyon Maugham into another symbolic defeat and with it a grovelling apology:
I repeat my apology, on Good Law Project’s behalf, to those the campaign has upset. We remain, as ever, extraordinarily grateful to the many members of the trans community who continue to support our work for the community.
Clearly having a good week, J.K. Rowling posted on X that “Jolyon has upset the trans activists. It’d take a heart of stone not to laugh.” In the same spirit, the poster was refashioned to replace its dangerous carnivore with a picture of Maugham and a new slogan: “Of course I support trans — I am a monster,” gleefully circulated by women’s rights advocate Graham Linehan.
