Children In Need and Mermaids

oh crikey- scary stuff!
i'm in leeds- i don't think that's particularly outing!
but it's home to mermaids, mesmac and whole lotta love for trans activism- i expect much of the bullshit is down to southern resettlers!
I'm from the south, so I can say that :)

Two trans teenagers on my street! Ones a girl now and the other is a boy now. The secondary schools are so woke it hurts.

Coming from good northern scum stock myself I can imagine

oh blimey, Golden- even the younger ones?
I do know of a non-binary group of kids- who would previously have been called girls/females!- at my son's school, but my son is blissfully ignorant of this older group
We're in West Yorkshire- possibly not the best place for the gender critical

There must be more than one heartland shimmy, I don’t think a secondary school age child could miss the trans thing round here. Sigh.

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/tv/pudsey/grants/CN0187GrantssListingsLondonnandSouthhEastEngland.pdf

Upper primary children in ( what seems like) trans heartland.
Mine too!
Well, one of them- the other in lower secondary.
My intention had been to not let them know my GC views, but it's been impossible not to let them out!
And I'm glad I have.
Neither of my kids has encountered the transgender trend yet but I feel it's only a matter of time and at least they'll be forearmed with information (though I realise that peer pressure can be far more intoxicating than parental approval)
and I absolutely do not want anything to go to Mermaids!!

TrashyTerf

Proof:

www.theguardian.com/media/2012/oct/29/children-in-need-chairman-jimmy-savile

Ironic when there was barely a news room in the 90's that didn't know about the "Asian" sexual grooming gangs raping thousands of girls across the country but chose to not cover it.

If you add up the amount of money raised for charity by dress up days I am sure it is much less than the amount of money spent on dressing up.

Bite? That should have been cute!

Because it doesn't include men. That's the bottom line. And bite little boys in a tutu and lippy are more photogenic than a woman whose been raped and had seven bells knocked out of her.

I don’t understand why they cut the donation to the rape crisis place when it was only £35,000. Surely, they could have just taken that from the mermaids donation? It wouldn’t make much different for them to have £90,000 instead. I mean, I’m sure there are much less trans children compared to women and girls that are raped.

Wow I had no idea. Thanks for the info OP.

Mermaids really are insidious aren’t they.

What is Mermaids?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3420335-can-someone-explain-the-problem-with-mermaids-charity

"Hmm. I’m pretty uncomfortable with some of the material from a couple of these groups, but the BBC spreadsheet has demonstrated just how many grants there are, and these are a drop in the ocean. I’m not sure if I want to throw the baby out with the bathwater here - I don’t think I can stop supporting children in need because of all the other good causes they fund. It’s not clear-cut though." Nothing stopping you from directly donating to the charities you do want to support.

Cin also one of the worst "charities" for high "admin costs"

Re that pathetic excuse for stopping the grant to glasgow rape centre - 2 words "aye right!"

I haven't donated to them for years, for these and other reasons. I donate when I can afford to charities of my own choosing - I particularly like a small local one that provides a holiday home for families with a child/ren with life limiting conditions. Low admin costs, excellent genuine volunteers.

I live in a very deprived area (high unemployment, homelessness & food bank use) - the peer pressure is ridiculous and the costs for non-uniform days etc is imo too high for the area. I've friends from a far more affluent area and the schools there have lower suggested donation amounts. I think the problem is most of the teachers aren't locals but are from a nearby VERY affluent area. I know of several families that have called their kids in sick on non uniform days because they can't afford to give the donation and children would be too embarrassed to go in uniform - plus it would likely lead to the children being bullied.

Can someone explain to me what the issue is with this charity please?

What is Mermaids please? (I’m not in the UK)

The grant to the Glasgow Rape Crisis that was cancelled was £35,000.

By contrast, they spend £1.7m on projects specifically to support girls (these are last year's numbers so Glasgow Rape Crisis is still included in that).

So they spend the same amount on supporting LGBT youth as they do on girls. Girls who are half the population, no matter what their sexual orientation or gender presentation.

Girls who we know are excluded, raped, sexually assaulted, trafficked and left caring for babies and children with little or no support.

I've just checked the ReSisters stats. They're bang on.

1/3 - £500,000 - of cash that CiN gives to support LGBT youth goes exclusively to supporting trans youth. One third

How much again to the rape centre?

Can anyone remind me again of how much money they gave to women and girls who have been through real trauma, as opposed to adults with an agem a of trying to persuade kids and their parents that a boy who likes pink must in reality be an actual girl and need 'intervention'? And not just a boy who likes pink - or heaven forbid, a gay boy?

CiN gave £75k to Allsorts last year - the charity which tells girls that if they are uncomfortable with sharing a changing room with a male bodied child, they should be educated and moved out of the changing room.

They also gave £125k to Mermaids

will give to individual children's charities that aren't involved in the trans agenda instead.

At least one of the big ones seems to have been made fully compliant by the lobbying orgs. Pick wisely.

If anyone has some time on their hands...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/2mRFsclbG1GkGK5LBynJP47/contact-us

Where is the full list of grants published?

So a rape centre isn't as important as the 'flavour of the month'?

Well the BBC hasn't exactly a good track record when it comes to child protection or women's safety has it? They need to look again.