As a student, I volunteered with Amnesty International -- this was several years into the genocide in Darfur -- and I remember we wanted everyone to know and everyone to care what was happening 7,000 miles away. In fact, I'm sure we were quite obnoxious about it! https://twitter.com/elizamondegreen/status/1329958966852530178

Seeing @amnesty now endorse campaigns that purposefully avoid public oversight and seek to shut down inquiry is surreal to me. I'll never get over it. This should be a red flag to Amnesty -- why sneak around? Why is it necessary to lie? What are you doing?

At a basic level, we had faith that if people understood what was happening, they would care and take action.

What's happening now is quite different. The public isn't trusted to understand -- in fact, the less that the public understands, the more successful the campaign.

Understanding isn't what's being sought. The entire campaign to enshrine gender ideology in our societies openly defies the possibility of understanding and celebrates the abdication of independent judgment. "They know better than you" about sums it up.

Compliance is what's being pursued here, enforced by social, economic, and legal sanctions if necessary. Gender ideology seeks to destroy the very possibility of good-faith disagreement and public dialogue. https://twitter.com/elizamondegreen/status/1328770337442500608

The message to the public boils down to: "Don't look too closely. You're not capable of understanding what you see. Just trust us."

And, indeed, gender ideology is quite difficult for non-believers to make sense of.

If gender is fluid and can change over time, why do we carry out untested and often irreversible medical procedures on kids at younger and younger ages?

Why should women be redefined as a mixed-sex class based on gender identity that privileges the identity claims of male people over the lived experiences of female people?

Why is there so much lying, obscuring, silencing, and manipulating by trans activists to prop up false claims, enforce anti-scientific dogmas, and shut down debate?

It's true -- the claims and demands of gender ideology are hard to understand.

And an ideology that refuses to be understood, refuses to submit to questions and inquiry, is hard to square with liberal societies and liberal institutions. Perhaps that why every state and institution that embraces gender ideology ends up warped beyond recognition.

It's utterly surreal to see @amnesty campaign against basic civil liberties like freedom of speech and conscience. In thrall to gender ideology, orgs like Amnesty International have abandoned their missions.

Oaths of allegiance are taking the place of inquiry in universities, nonprofits, and government commissions. The more preposterous the oath, the greater the demonstration of allegiance.

That applies whether the preposterous oath concerns the crowd size at Trump's inauguration ("This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period") or the favored preposterous oath of the Left ("TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN," often repeated in all caps for effect).

Enforcing 𝑎𝑛𝑦 ideology at the expense of truth-seeking processes and institutions leads us nowhere we want to go. Enshrining ideas and claims that can't withstand scrutiny in the law threatens the very basis of liberal societies. https://twitter.com/elizamondegreen/status/1288650787443408896

This open letter circulating in Ireland is a clear example of threat we're up against: "We call on media, and politicians to no longer provide legitimate representation for those that share bigoted beliefs..." https://gcn.ie/irish-lgbtq-community-stand-irishsolidarit-transphobia-trans-day-remembrance/

"These fringe internet accounts stand against affirmative medical care of transgender people, and they stand against the right to self-identification of transgender people in this country."

To be clear, the thoughtcrimes here include
- questioning the medical experiment we're running on kids, many of whom are simply lesbian or gay
- asserting that sex matters, independently of subjective gender identity claims

Whether gender ideologues like it or not, these are pressing questions for democratic societies to consider, in the open, without fear of harassment.

That gender ideologues don't have good answers to these questions does not mean that asking questions is wrong or "bigoted."

It's unfortunate for the gender lobby that the under-the-radar and burn-the-witches approach they've taken so far is starting to fall apart.

Nonetheless, these are questions that need to be asked and a dialogue that needs to take place. https://twitter.com/elizamondegreen/status/1328770335693545477