In July 2026, Amnesty International UK published a report naming the organisations it found to be working against the rights of women and LGBT+ people in Britain. It withdrew the report within days, after organisations it had named threatened to sue. This archive keeps the report's findings, and the public records behind them, available.
Why this archive exists
Amnesty International UK published A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK in early July 2026 and removed it from its website within days. Beira's Place, the sexual-violence charity founded and funded by J.K. Rowling, had instructed solicitors and demanded the report be taken down, and Rowling had offered to fund legal action by any organisation on the list.
Amnesty said the report had been "uploaded to our website without going through the established internal review processes" and that its "use of language does not reflect the position of Amnesty International UK". It has not republished the report.
Amnesty's companion briefing Like a snowball: the growth and impact of the gender-critical movement in the UK (May 2026) remains on Amnesty's website. J.K. Rowling's charity Beira's Place has since extended its legal demand to that briefing too, calling on Amnesty to withdraw the material and commission an external investigation into both reports, or face litigation. Archived copies of both are preserved here: A growing threat and Like a snowball.
The organisations in this archive are among those the report named. Each profile is built from public records: company and charity filings, court judgments, and published reporting. Amnesty's classification of each organisation is reported here as Amnesty's.
What human-rights bodies say about the movement
"Gender critical" refers to the position that biological sex is fixed and takes priority over gender identity in law and policy. The organisations in this archive describe their own work as defending women's rights, safeguarding children, or representing lesbian, gay and bisexual people.
Amnesty is not the only human-rights body to reach this assessment. Others that have examined the movement describe it in similar terms. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, in a resolution adopted in January 2022:
"The Assembly condemns the highly prejudicial anti-gender, gender-critical and anti-trans narratives which reduce the struggle for the equality of LGBTI people to what these movements deliberately mis-characterise as 'gender ideology' … Such narratives deny the very existence of LGBTI people, dehumanise them and often falsely portray their rights as being in conflict with women's and children's rights."
Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, Resolution 2417 (2022)
The United Nations Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity, in a 2021 report, grouped "gender critical" advocacy with "anti-trans" campaigning and found the underlying narrative is used "mostly in attempts to block rights relating to sexuality and gender … and the rights of LGBT persons":
"'Gender ideology' narratives evoke a global conspiracy and a coordinated strategy aimed at destroying the political and social order, and the malleable nature of the concept has cleared the path for its usage to push for restrictive ideas and policies."
UN Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity, report A/76/152 (2021)
The effect on trans people's rights
These bodies also address the movement's argument that trans rights conflict with the rights of women or children. The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, in a statement of March 2024, said such conflicts are "often not borne out in reality":
"Alleged conflicts of rights are often not borne out in reality and are mostly premised on harmful prejudices about trans people … realising the human rights of trans people does not undermine the rights of others. Human rights are universal: they apply equally to everyone."
Dunja Mijatović, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, 14 March 2024
Amnesty defined the actors in its report as groups "whose aim is to restrict human rights by undermining human rights protections in law and practice". In April 2025 the UK Supreme Court ruled, in a case brought by For Women Scotland, that "woman" in the Equality Act 2010 means biological sex. Human Rights Watch called the judgment "severely regressive" and said it "threatens the rights of trans people".
The organisations
The 47 organisations listed here are from Amnesty's gender-critical and conversion-practices categories, with the SEEN network's sector groups consolidated into one profile. Most entries link to a sourced report; one name Amnesty listed without identifying details — "Living Faith" — could not be matched to a specific charity, and is shown as Amnesty listed it, without a profile.
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