Our Letter To Amnesty - Was Your Report Intended To Incite Hate And Discrimination?

FAO Kerry Moscoguiri CEO 

Helen Horton Chair  

Amnesty International UK Board Section 

Mr Sandy Ruthven OBE  

Chair Amnesty International UK 

14 July 2026 

Dear Helen Horton, Kerry Moscoguiri, and Sandy Ruthven 

EBSWA is an alliance of social workers concerned about the lack of evidence to support claims about the existence of gender identity and about the reliance placed on these claims by social workers and their employers and regulatory bodies.  

We are writing to complain about the publication of your recent report listing and condemning a number of similar organisations to ours as "hate" groups or entities. We believe that there is simply no evidence that these organisations encourage hate against anyone, and that it is Amnesty which is encouraging hate and discrimination against organisations and the  thousands of UK citizens, many of them women, who are associated with and support them.  

What did Amnesty hope would happen as a consequence of your denunciation?  We ask this in the context of a campaign of open incitement to physical violence against persons and property which has led to, among other things, the EHRC having to move offices, vandalism of Wes Streeting MPs offices, an attack on the venue for a women's conference venue in Brighton. These events are an escalation of what has been a consistent campaign of threat and harassment of any challenge to claims made by activists about "gender identity".  Women have been punched, threatened and prevented from meeting publicly or even privately.  

These events occurred because of actual and visible hate directed at those who do not agree that it is right to impose belief in gender identity on society, and at those of use who believe  that vulnerable people must be protected from the serious consequences of acting on false claims about the benefits of social and medical  for them.   

Did you  imagine that your report would make Britain a safer and more inclusive place? or did you hope that your report would legitimise these criminal and hateful actions that seem designed to inspire fear and silence dissent?  

We believe that Amnesty has gone against its own values in this attack on free speech and dissent and that the only remedy is for you to apologise, retract the report, commit to support freedom of speech on sex and gender, and on other areas of social justice,  and to commission an independent review of the processes that led to the publication of this report.  

We are only disappointed not to have been included in what will in future be seen as  a Roll of Honour of people and organisations who stood against hate and for humanity.   

Yours sincerely  

Maggie Mellon (Chair)  

Jane McClenaghan 

Kay Beaumont 

 Helen Edwards 

Christine Doherty 

Louise Chivers

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