A powerful anti-rights movement is growing in the UK, threatening to roll back our hard-won freedoms and rewrite the rules on whose rights, bodies and lives deserve protection.
Our groundbreaking analysis has uncovered a rapidly expanding network of organisations working to undermine human rights protections, targeting reproductive freedoms, LGBTI rights and promoting dangerous practices such as so-called “conversion therapy”.
This threat is real, organised and growing. But we see their game, and we won’t stand for it.
**What the analysis shows: a coordinated attack on our rights**
Our analysis maps the nature and finances of 65 anti-rights groups operating across the UK, including anti-abortion organisations, groups promoting so-called “conversion therapy,” UK branches of powerful US-based organisations, and ultra-conservative Christian groups, with many groups emerging since 2015. Three quarters are registered either as a charity or a company.
These groups spent a staggering £106 million between 2019 and 2023, an increase of over 33%. All with the aim to undermine our freedoms, restrict access to essential healthcare and roll back the rights we’ve fought hard to win.
Human rights are universal – so make no mistake, this affects us all.
They haven’t linked their research so it is impossible to say whether this effects Scotland or how.
The biggest funder of anti abortion stuff here has usually been the Catholic Church.
The ‘protests’ outside the hospital in Glasgow are mostly run by their Paisley diocese.
The problem with freedom is that you have to accept that people you disagree with have every bit as much right as you to advocate for their views.
The total spending in 2023 by all these groups combined is the almost the same as the budget for Amnesty, a single organisation (£22,827,000). If that’s a powerful group, Amnesty and their allies are a far bigger problem.
‘We mapped 12 groups promoting the harmful and abusive practice of so-called “conversion therapy,” aiming to ‘change’ or suppress people’s sexual orientation or gender identity’
Name one.
Why haven’t they bothered listing any of the details of the research?
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Just a reminder that the legal precedents and norms to allow these groups to come after abortion rights and LGB rights are being set right now with legal victories aimed at overturning trans rights and healthcare access.
Women do not benefit from removing bodily autonomy from trans people because the legal precedents that protect trans people’s bodily autonomy are the same ones that protect cisgender women’s bodily autonomy (see gillick etc.)
Solidarity is the only solution.
The backbiting and infighting that is being promoted by politicians and the media will only harm us all.
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A powerful anti-rights movement is growing in the UK, threatening to roll back our hard-won freedoms and rewrite the rules on whose rights, bodies and lives deserve protection.
Our groundbreaking analysis has uncovered a rapidly expanding network of organisations working to undermine human rights protections, targeting reproductive freedoms, LGBTI rights and promoting dangerous practices such as so-called “conversion therapy”.
This threat is real, organised and growing. But we see their game, and we won’t stand for it.
**What the analysis shows: a coordinated attack on our rights**
Our analysis maps the nature and finances of 65 anti-rights groups operating across the UK, including anti-abortion organisations, groups promoting so-called “conversion therapy,” UK branches of powerful US-based organisations, and ultra-conservative Christian groups, with many groups emerging since 2015. Three quarters are registered either as a charity or a company.
These groups spent a staggering £106 million between 2019 and 2023, an increase of over 33%. All with the aim to undermine our freedoms, restrict access to essential healthcare and roll back the rights we’ve fought hard to win.
Human rights are universal – so make no mistake, this affects us all.
They haven’t linked their research so it is impossible to say whether this effects Scotland or how.
The biggest funder of anti abortion stuff here has usually been the Catholic Church.
The ‘protests’ outside the hospital in Glasgow are mostly run by their Paisley diocese.
The problem with freedom is that you have to accept that people you disagree with have every bit as much right as you to advocate for their views.
The total spending in 2023 by all these groups combined is the almost the same as the budget for Amnesty, a single organisation (£22,827,000). If that’s a powerful group, Amnesty and their allies are a far bigger problem.
‘We mapped 12 groups promoting the harmful and abusive practice of so-called “conversion therapy,” aiming to ‘change’ or suppress people’s sexual orientation or gender identity’
Name one.
Why haven’t they bothered listing any of the details of the research?
[deleted]
Just a reminder that the legal precedents and norms to allow these groups to come after abortion rights and LGB rights are being set right now with legal victories aimed at overturning trans rights and healthcare access.
Women do not benefit from removing bodily autonomy from trans people because the legal precedents that protect trans people’s bodily autonomy are the same ones that protect cisgender women’s bodily autonomy (see gillick etc.)
Solidarity is the only solution.
The backbiting and infighting that is being promoted by politicians and the media will only harm us all.
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