Ru Pothoven

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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.

The first page of a formal, typed legal letter dated 14 July 2026. It is addressed to the leadership of Amnesty International UK: Helen Horton (Chair, Amnesty International UK Section), Sandy Ruthven (Chair, Amnesty International UK Charitable Trust), and Kerry Moscogiuri (Chief Executive). The contact information and phone numbers in the top-right corner are redacted with a large black block, and a footer at the bottom is also blacked out.
​The subject line reads: "BEIRA’S PLACE | AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL UK PUBLICATION DATED 8 JULY 2026".
​The body text states that the sender acts on behalf of Beira’s Place, a sexual violence support service for women in Edinburgh and the Lothians. It asserts the legal right under the Equality Act 2010 to provide single-sex services and references the Supreme Court ruling in For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers to define "woman" by biological sex. The letter strongly objects to page 20 of a newly published Amnesty report titled "A growing threat; the anti-rights movement in the UK", which allegedly categorizes Beira's Place as an "anti-rights organization." The letter calls this categorization "grossly offensive and entirely without foundation."The second page of the formal legal letter, maintaining the same clean, typed layout with a heavy black redaction block covering the footer at the bottom.
​Under the heading "Defamation and Malicious Publications (Scotland) Act 2021", the text argues that labeling Beira's Place as "anti-rights" is defamatory and legally actionable. It claims the report has caused severe damage, including threatening correspondence and a 600% spike in hostile website traffic. The text notes that Beira's Place, with the support of its founder J.K. Rowling, will not allow its reputation to be tarnished.
​Under the heading "Remedies", the letter lists legal demands to avoid litigation, including:
​A permanent withdrawal of the Amnesty report and its methodology.
​A public letter of apology on the homepage of Amnesty’s website, apologizing to Beira's Place, its staff, and service users, as well as acknowledging the protected belief that sex is real and immutable.The final page of the typed legal letter, featuring a large black redaction box covering the signature block in the middle and another covering the footer at the bottom.
​The page contains the conclusion of the legal demands, including a third remedy requiring Amnesty to commission an external investigation into how the report was published.
​The letter warns that if Amnesty does not agree to these terms, counsel will be instructed to prepare for court action. It concludes with a note that J.K. Rowling, as founder of Beira's Place, will make a formal complaint to the Charity Commission or other appropriate regulator and supports other listed gender-critical organizations taking their own legal actions. It signs off with "Yours faithfully" before the blacked-out signature block.

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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.

TERF Activist J.K. Rowling Threatens To Finance Wave Of Attacks On Amnesty International Over Report On Anti-Trans Groups

“They have sued organizations into the ground.”

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Wachtlijsten in de GGZ en voor transgenderzorg kosten mensenlevens. Toch gaat het hier nauwelijks over in de Kamer. Vandaag was ik bij de manifestatie van Stichting Recht op GGZ in Utrecht, samen met lotgenoten, behandelaren en nabestaanden. Want een ander beleid is nodig! 💜✊🏼

Foto van Linda, de voorzitter van Recht op GGZ die voor het podium de openingstoespraak houdt. Het podium is een ronde verhoging i. Het park in Utrecht met een rood-wit gestreept doek 
Foto van het rood-wit gestreepte doek boven het podium met de namenlijst die Bieke heeft gemaakt met namen van mensen die op de wachtlijst staan

Een apotheek die trans personen weigert en vrouwen wegstuurt voor anticonceptie of medicatie na abortus: Volstrekt onacceptabel. Apothekers hebben een zorgplicht, geen vrijbrief om mensen op basis van gender, identiteit of medische keuzes te discrimineren. Aangemeld voor mondelinge vragen.

Opinie: Een apotheek stuurt vrouwen en trans personen weg, maar niemand grijpt in

In Nederland staan we discriminatie door een apotheker blijkbaar toe als het vanuit een geloofsovertuiging komt. Twintig jaar geleden was dit nog ondenkbaar.

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Uit onderzoek van Pointer blijkt dat veel trans en non-binaire personen zich onveilig voelen bij sportscholen en -clubs. Ook Jay herkent dit. Hij is transman en geeft training in de queer gym. Benieuwd naar meer? Lees het onderzoek over onveilige plekken voor LHTBIQA-personen via pointer.nl

There's quite a few things in my Cass threads that I haven't written up in detail. But *this* is one of the weakest things she does; the conjuring up an arbitrary line used to dismiss all the major global standards of care, which she never further considers. WHOLE BODIES OF WORK.

Ethel Weapon@lousadzak.bsky.social · 2y ago

The most audacious thing in in Cass is possibly the wholesale dismissal of international care standards on the flimsiest imaginable grounds: she applies arbitrary cut off points to scores generated via a specially commissioned “quality evaluation”, thereby dismissing entire bodies of work