Amnesty International says UK anti‑rights report prompted legal threats tied to J.K. Rowling
1. TERF activist J.K. Rowling is threatening to bankrupt Amnesty International (UK) with lawsuits because the org dared release a report criticizing anti-trans organizaitons. The UK's laws are designed to allow rich people to suppress speech they do not like. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Erin Reed3952. The report was retracted shortly after publication and replaced with a statement from the organization saying the report was uploaded “without going through the established internal review processes” after waves of threats from the author and anti-trans orgs.
Matthew van Eerde164It is darkly funny that Ms. Rowling's pinned tweet begins with the line "if you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal"
Millie, or Mills if we’re friends115Learning that she was terminated by Amnesty for writing book ideas rather than doing her job, makes it make sense Narcissists never ever forget a grudge
Corina101At this point in time, J.K. Rowling is no better than any man that sexually abused her. There, I said it. She's actively using her power to objectify, disparage, abuse and harm millions of people. She's no better than a misogynistic rapist.
BlepBork76Having hate as a hobby is so confusing to me. She could literally do anything else but harass innocent people
Cognitum58At this point we all know rich white people are generally pieces of shit.
Sarah Shay65This woman grows more monstrous every day, and yet there are still queer people and allies out there supporting her work. There is no possible justification at this point.
John Coons/Teo54I don’t want to hear shit from any of you about Harry fucking Potter ever again.
Gaël Violet, Snowflacus Invictus18Comme il est d'ailleurs précisé dans l'article, ces menaces sont *postérieures à la rétractation du rapport d'Amnesty International* suite à ses pressions. Joane Kuklux Rowling telle qu'en elle-même: minable jusqu'au bout.
Alice 🖤🤍12She has ties to Epstein, is giving cover to white nationalists & anti-abortion groups (ofc she’s defending TERFS as well). She’s been known to collaborate with both. She posted upskirts of trans women. JKR = serial predator who advocates for rape & approves of sharing non-consensual images. A ghoul.
Mikeke352 🏳️🌈10Read this thread. Then chuck all your Harry Potter garbage in a furnace then replace it with something better. I recommend anything by Ursula LeGuin Dianna Wynn Jones John Bellairs Robert C. O'Brian Or Phillip Pullman
Adam Smith10As always, fuck the wizard woman and the anti-trans movement in general.
𓆩⛧Grymoria⛧𓆪10Can she croak and rot already?
Aluino #ProtectJho9With the way folks used every single excuse to justify playing the Hogwarts game and so on… I have a really hard time believing non-trans folks will actually rally.
Nighthawk Superstar 𓅣🌏🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️☭9JK Rowling is a fascist.
veraeikon.bsky.social9In addition to bathrooms and women's sports, we'll add Amnesty International to the list of things the febrile cis people are destroying due to their trans panic. Great job everyone!
Were I an incredibly rich author I would simply live my life in a way that meant I did not have to send legal threats to Amnesty International.
Kate Elliott48it's baffling to me, utterly baffling
Apples n Spice46All of the actors involved in her projects since she became a notorious bigot deserve the reputational hit because what do you mean you are helping her profit from this hate?
RJ Barker26Gonna have to mute this now but feel free to buy my books.
Cyber Spice (Wapentake of Upper Skyrack)24Way before she was funding and speaking like she does she had written a novel where one of the characters was a nasty bigoted stereotype of a trans woman. But then in the wizard books she has the nasty bigoted stereotype jewish type characters and the nasty bigoted stereotype chinese character..
Helen Rose Thwaite22If she were to expire tomorrow, the comments would be in the vein of those marking Graham's passing ie a world away from that of Neill's. I know which camp I'd rather be in.
Joza Feen11Unlike her, you'd still have friends too. I honestly think she keeps on with the hate because the only company she has are the TERFs on her socials.
Dave Vetter29Several prominent public figures died this week, and in each case the passing elicited a notably different public reaction. You'd hope this would cause people to reflect on how they choose to live their lives.
mcoorlim4Hell, if I were a moderately successful author I'd sequester myself away and communicate only through periodic book releases.
alaspooreryorik.bsky.social2The disturbing part here is that I didn’t know what this was about but instantly knew what author they were referring to anyway . . .
D.C.V.2I knew this was about J.K. Rowling before I even knew what happened.
Chris Stevenson 🏳️🌈🌉2The millisecond it took me to ask “what’s she done now…”
She probably wants to bankrupt Amnesty International just to send a message that if anyone criticizes any gender critical organization in the UK, she will personally use her billions to bankroll lawfare to destroy them. This is about silencing any and all dissent to her transphobic views.
Alejandra Caraballo577In doing this, Rowling may accomplish what countless dictators and genocidal regimes have been unable to do, destroy a human rights organization dedicated to holding those abusing human rights to account. The key difference is that the authoritarianism is coming from Amnesty's own country.
DaVoin Shower-Handle3And yet we're told to believe it's all those scary trans and LGBTQ people that's ruling the world when the complete opposite is happening right in front of our eyes.
Cassandra of Troy2Transmisic views. They are way beyond phobia.
Cowudi 🍉🐺🐻🐙🌿🌍🌎2wow, I think tjere was a carácter in one of her books intent of eliminating creatueres ( and punishing whomever suporte them) just because of tjey were different... I am unable to remember what happened to her character...
Sofia Kirke Forslund-Startceva6Any one of you who directly or indirectly contribute to her gaining royalties? No matter how "nostalgic" you feel about Harry Potter, you are literally paying for the elimination of people like me. I might not tell you to your face, but how can I not judge that, in the turmoil/stillness of my heart?
Uncle Fella David of Oz (🇺🇸)4JK Rowling trying to destroy Amnesty International really seals the deal on her being a fascist sociopath. Anyone who supports her please unfollow or even block me. If you post about Harry Potter please know you’re helping her hurt trans folks. No IP is worth the damage she is doing.
Amnesty International put out a report called "The Growing Threat of Anti-Rights Organizations in the UK". It included a number of "gender critical" organizations threatening trans people. JKR threatened to bankrupt them, so they retracted it. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mafq8...
rahaeli144She's still threatening to bankrupt them. Nothing in this report is false. The "gender critical" movement is an anti-human-rights movement, and a billionaire fascist with expensive solicitors in the UK's plaintiff-friendly defamation climate can't change this fact. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mafq8...
Darius Baktash10Ooh, I wonder if this could be done in a monthly auto post! Maybe with a randomly generated phrasebook to describe how mildewed her soul has become?
Jon Stout6😞 What the hell is wrong with that woman?
Tindi (who yells about goalies)4I love that you do this every time she chills someone else out
Stephen Cox33Nothing says healthy human rights climate quite like 'obsessed billionaire forces Amnesty to withdraw a report and offers to fund people who want to sue them'
Lurks-No-More5Shame on @amnestyuk.bsky.social , and a heart fuck you to JKR and anyone who supports her vile, unhinged bigotry. In particular, there's no ethical way to engage with Harry Potter while she's around and actively spreading hate and meddling in politics.
PNW Lark3The uber rich should have a limit on how much they can sue people for getting butthurt. Their fines should be tripled for nuisance suits and predatory approach to the law.
Al Hatch2This is a superb piece of research. I hope @amnestyuk.bsky.social does the right thing and publishes it. I'll contribute to the defence fund if the nasty transphobe does sue.
Last week, Amnesty Intl published a report connecting anti-trans orgs in the UK to a wider anti-rights movement. A few days later, they took it down after some of those hate groups pushed back calling it a smear. From @transnews.network, here's a 🧵of what exactly TERFs don't want you to know.
Gock Socket9Can I get a link to all the info on a different site? The thread isn't showing for me.
celes a question than a comment5I'm unsurprised there was a push to censor this report, since the association with the ADF etc demonstrates this is in no way a pro-woman movement and people might actually take note of Amnesty pointing it out, unlike the ear-covering toward similar findings for the last decade
David Forbes50Once again: trans genocide is a gentry conspiracy.
it's Lazzie B! once again!! 😱9is this thread busted for anybody else? if not, enjoy! if so.. you're confused by it too, right? i don't think imogen did anything wrong, here, but i can't view replies downthread.
Relevant Ferret If Known7I dunno if it's just BlueSky being BlueSky or what, but it's conspicuous how none of the replies in this thread want to load for me...
This will make global headlines. Threatening legal action against a human rights org that has successfully released hundreds of political prisoners, been instrumental in abolishing the death penalty in 100 countries, had countless human rights wins, esp for women, is not a good look for UK GCs.
Luna 🌙🏴☠️18Sadly it won't leave a mark, people who hate TERFs already know they're the worst of the worst, people who don't hate TERFs will believe what the media does (and does not) tell them, they will be silent on this or frame it as a woke-agenda pro-pedo attack on "real" women
Lying8Fun tidbit: Amnesty International has been defending human rights, including those of women, for longer than Joanne Rowling has been alive.
Sophie Rebecca 🏳️⚧️🩰7I wish that were true, sadly I feel like this will barely be covered at all.
elizabeth is actually wearing sunscreen6Yes but in the uk it will be ignored
Diamanda Hagan6That assumes the world gives a fuck about trans people. Sorry feeling fatalistic.
Dr Nuits de Young6Utterly sickened that a single individual has the money & power to do this. Absolutely evil. Just has to threaten to sue any charity or voluntary organisation into oblivion.
Most recent Suzanne Moore column attacking Amnesty International for setting out the evidence that numerous anti-trans organisations in the UK are, in fact, anti-trans, is somewhat, let's just say, insane
Nate O45I hate making this analogy, but any other concerted effort from a well-financed international right-wing ultra-Christian groups to strip away the legal protections of a minority group that threatened Amnesty International with litigation in the UK to financially ruin them would be widely condemned
Dreamliner Again21Oh wow. She’s so close to getting it. And simultaneously a million miles away. As for left-wing and grassroots… lol. Where does she think the £millions comes from, and why is it that actual Nazis agree with her?
Metal Gear Solidarity14She's really lost touch with reality, hasn't she?
Grudging Signup10If I were watching the "are we the baddies?" sketch, I would simply correctly identify whether I was the baddies or not 😌
Jess Shand Smith10You can always tell someone's a "left leaning grassroots feminist" by them writing a column in the Daily Telegraph
Jillian Whitton 🏳️⚧️, rising9If it's a left-wing feminist grassroots movement, why is it supported by every right-wing misogynist authoritarian in the world?
Helen16TIL that Nazi affiliated organisations, funded by dark money, that fight abortion decriminalisation - qualify as left wing, feminist & grassroots in Suzanne Moore's mind.
Helen13Oh my god. Suzanne Moore has looked at GC orgs attacking the world's foremost human rights organisation and has concluded that... ...the human rights org are the baddies.
Switch, :Wumpslut:8if you have to write a full paragraph to explain a meme just don't reference the meme or don't have ai write your shit for you
Steven Perkins8Terfs being aware of the “are we the baddies?” sketch and yet not considering for a second that it might apply to them is so painfully on-brand
Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social does essential work to fight for human rights. Now is a really good time to support them: donate.amnesty.org.uk
nadiawithaboringj.bsky.social4Does it? Evidence today suggests they fold at the first legal letter from a hack kiddies author.
paul3I'm very disappointed their anti-rights list was withdrawn immediately following legal bullying from JK Rowling. If they'd stood by it I'd have happily donated to a fighting fund.
