Mermaids given £500,000 by National Lottery (Sunday Times)

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Lots of supportive comments here.

Circular isn't it.

Public sector, charities and large organisations fund lobbying organisations who in turn lobby the public sector, charities and large organisations. The Stonewall model.

This time though, it is really dangerous.

Wow. Gilligan hasn't pulled his punches has he! I'm impressed at how much he managed to pack into that article - hopefully it's enough to set some people to thinking.

If you look up mermaids reports that they have to submit to the charity commission ( 2016-17)- you can see that three of their trustees have been given dispensation. - their names arn’t public. - would love to know who they are. - I’m fact the year before one of the redacted trustees is listed as in charge of safeguarding...

Although in 2017-18 none of the trustees have dispensation. So either they all left of they are now named.

I might to some more digging... but I think that’s really interesting.

No comments on the article allowed? I only have the app.

The level of institutional support mermaids get is astonishing. Why are Merseyside police so entwined?

I’ve just complained to the National Lottery, pointed out that children are being rendered sterile and mutilated, and told them I will no longer buy a lottery ticket but donate to a women’s charity instead.

Wow those tweets. What about informed valid consent? What about ensuring that the understanding of the individual patient is in place before that individual might be having extremely invasive medical or surgical interventions with permanent effects on their body...?

I hope that they are even more urgently calling for years of talking therapies to be available to a child or young person to support them, to relieve emotional distress and anxiety, to explore what is underlying any dysphoria and explore their understanding of consequences of different treatments... well before there is even any question of medical or surgical steps being proposed to modify their body....?

It's almost like we're getting to them, and this was signed off as a deliberate counter attack. But those who will suffer, once again, are children. Children are to be recruited at a local as well as at a national level. And all our towns and cities will have their own chapel to the cult of transgenderism. All paid for by ordinary men and ... bleeders, non-men, non-transwomen, ...

Do they deny the studies which show high rates of desistance?

I don't think they care. Here are two tweets from Susie Green at the World Professional Association for Transgender Health conference, saying

'...surgery should be allowed based on competency NOT age of majority. Psychological assessment should not be needed for surgery' and 'We are not going to accidentally make someone trans, even if we give them hormones... Let's be less concerned about certainty.'

I’m lost as to who we do get to vote for though. We are 52 per cent of the UK population but there is not a single major party that is willing to stand up for us. Even the WEP has thrown us to the wind. If we don’t vote that doesnt help either. if you think voting the communists will help kiss goodbye to ever going to the USA.

Guess I'll be closing my lottery account down then!

Strong article. I'm always confused when I read what Mermaids say. Do they deny the studies which show high rates of desistance? Genuine question. It's just such a bizarrely one-eyed organisation. Astonishing that they have been given this money.

Another entitled male defending his and his organisation’s reputation at the expense of women and children- his dismissive response to the legitimate criticism of funding an organisation that promotes actions deemed by many as child abuse says it all - wilful deafness.

Thx again to MP DD for speaking out again - a lone voice in the wilderness of parliamentary representives (sic)- one could be forgiven for thinking that they don’t care about re-election or half of the population’s voting power - and no the excuse of Brexit doesn’t cut it when neglecting such huge issues as this