So today is #NationalComingOutDay. Digital Eagles is a long-running Barclay’s initiative to get people more tech savvy and they’ve done lots of good work around promoting online safety for children, and done a lot of work with schools, donating Micro Bit processors for kids to learn basic coding
So on NationalComingOutDay it’s no surprise that a huge organisation with a large workforce would choose to do something to mark the occasion. So what have Digital Eagles done? They’ve decided to promote Mermaids, and more specifically, their website forums and chatline. twitter.com/Digitaleagles
They position Mermaids as a charity for ‘gender diverse’ children and don’t use the word ‘trans’. They even flag up the website’s ‘quick exit’ button as a nifty digital feature. Jake Edwards, Mermaids’s communications assistant (non-binary transman) is gushing in their gratitude to Barclays and all the support they give Mermaids.
I just find it strange that of all the things they could have celebrated today they chose to celebrate Mermaids. Are they not aware of the controversy? Why focus specifically on a children’s trans charity and bypass the coming out of gay men, lesbians and bisexuals? Can they not see how this reads? How do Barclays’ LGB workforce really feel about being sidelined once again. It’s not NationalDayofTransVisibility - maybe they got their days mixed up?
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AchieveBelieve · 12/10/2020 16:44
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