Rowling doesn’t care about women’s rights. She cares about herself and her own bigoted interests. No one who actually cares about women would do what she does.

Rowling will get to use Beira's Place as a vehicle to destroy an incredibly important human rights organization through lawfare while utilizing rape victims as a shield for her bigotry. It's frankly disgusting and beneath contempt what she's doing.

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Thread, now with more updated info. As usual, Imogen brings a depth of knowledge to laying out exactly how the anti-rights networks in the UK overlap with, and influence, the political elite.

Beira's Place was founded specifically to be trans exclusionary because the Edinburgh center was run by a trans woman. It had nothing to do with supporting women and everything to do with ensuring trans people are pushed out of society while hijacking a sensitive issue to do so.

It's incredibly clear that Rowling is going to lead with this org because it's a rape shelter. It'll be a media circus. The UK press will attack Amnesty as defaming a rape crisis center. Nevermind that Rowling and her ilk incited threats to Edinburgh Rape Crisis center b/c a trans woman worked there

The plan to censor the report went to shit, so instead we’ll try and force Amnesty to discredit themselves.

JK Rowling through her TERF organization, Beira's Place have sent Amnesty International a demand letter seeking a full retraction of their report, a public apology, and a bar to future criticism of gender critical groups as anti rights orgs. If they don't comply, they'll commence legal action.

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Ended up making a secondary 🧵 about the Labour MPs who signed this early day motion (that will probably never be debated).

I don't think cis folks realize the seismic impact the rabidly anti-trans UK government has had on the thinking of trans people broadly. Used to be a widespread assumption that while few political parties were good on trans rights, at least centrists would be less horrific than far-right. No more.

It turns out British MP Tonia Antoniazzi has tabled an early day motion that condemns the Amnesty report depiction of the anti-rights movement in the UK. The motion cites that "gender critical belief" is protected under the Equality Act 2010 as well as last year's supreme court ruling.

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Really crazy to learn that JK Rowling once worked at Amnesty International as a bilingual researcher but she was fired because she was too busy writing books during work hours instead of documenting war crimes in French speaking Africa.

she didn't "allege it," trump did it. don't lie in headlines, it's not a good look. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I wrote about what looks very much like a formal US plan to institutionalize a global network of concentration camps.

to all the community archivists out there, keep doing what you're doing

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.

The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.

As part of our first anniversary fund drive, we're highlighting some of the journalism those donations fund. Late last year @thefreeradical.org's city was occupied by ICE and CBP as part of a terror campaign. She kept reporting. The result was one of the most powerful pieces we've ever published.

and do not forget that in all regions across the country, there's trans people fighting for our rights and trying to make their homes a better place to live. do not discount them or pretend like they're not there. they are, and they're still fighting hard.

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tnn gave me a place to write about issues here in canada that deserve to be covered. help us meet our goal to expand coverage of trans stories like alberta's draconian anti-trans bills

independent news rooms like TNN are so important for holding power to account rn. celebrate our first year by supporting our second !

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i cried when i read some of the testmony from kids fighting in alberta against these bans. they are so self-assured and i urge you to read this story and their words

all else aside, I think this was the start of a shift for a lot of people- realizing their government was absolutely capable of helping them, but actively choosing not to

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Right-wing officials in Alberta used a little-known clause to ignore court rulings and constitutional human rights protections. But incredibly brave trans kids, families and activists are still fighting this attack on their lives and autonomy. Edited by @davidforbes.bsky.social

Anti-trans hatred is also an escalating threat in Canada, where Alberta's conservative government ignored court rulings to inflict a draconian youth healthcare ban and bar trans women from sports. @imogensayers.ca reports on what happened, and some ways Canadian trans folks are fighting back:

look cops are bad but it is hot to expose powerful people doing bs

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Where did the pressure for the US to wage war on Iran? Not from Congress. Not from professional analysts within the administration. It seems very clear at this point that the impetus came from the Israeli Prime Minister. open.substack.com/pub/hortonka...

despite some unfortunate audio quality, this first episode of the horton-kaiser report does a great job of unpacking life on the ground in Lebanon since the state of israel launched its latest round of brutal attacks—which locals think are the worst yet. open.substack.com/pub/hortonka...

very good and accurate essay about what it feels like to live through genocidal whims, as real or not as they may be

Trump comes out against transvestigations

"It is not hope. It is the specific exhaustion of people who have been denied hope for so long that the mere postponement of catastrophe registers as reprieve. We celebrated nothing. We simply exhaled."

w/ Alt text to this very important reporting from Noah. I think a lot about the public record, as a journalist and LIS student. Documentation of what is said in moments like these—from social media posts to emails—from those with power is essential to gather and preserve.

it's really so beside the point by now, but i cannot believe people gave this psychotic motherfucker a second chance.

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Even in LGBTQIA+ / queer publications I have been told using "they" pronouns, or switching pronouns for someone who uses multiple is "confusing" and we should stick to what people are familiar with. Censorship of trans+ identities has got to stop!

PLUS a little tidbit from me on trans day of visibility and the SCOTUS conversion therapy opinion

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i've spent the past two days reading testimonies from trans kids. and boy oh girl, they're some of the bravest, most self-assured folks out there ! happy tdov to all the trans kids out there, pushing the boundaries of gender and forging a new path <3

hope is literally all we have. hope keeps us fighting for liberation.

The Premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith, took time today to celebrate the "exclusion of biological men from women's spaces". The ability for women and girls in this province to be able to play sports will be hindered because of this, and it will be because trans women are the target.

Pierre Pollievre is a danger to trans folks across Canada and he cannot be given any power to take away our rights. Anyone who stands with the monarch of Terf Island has no place in government.