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Mermaids finally has a trans trustee

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OneEpisode · 03/06/2020 08:36

Mermaids posted on twitter. Bobbi Packard. The new trustee is a late transitioning (2017, now 50) employee of BP. Former experience includes investment banking. Two children. Has been posting lots of Trump supportive anti-immigrant stuff on twitter. Very on message for Mermaids: their personal website has “All you need to know is that almost 50% of transgender children attempt suicide”.

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OneEpisode · 03/06/2020 09:17

Mermaids 31 March 2019 accounts showed they were low on trustees, down to the minimum, two. One resigned after. In the accounts they said they had paid Peridot Partners to find some new trustees. one was Alex Feis-Bryce. The sex work charity was Ugly Mugs.

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OhHolyJesus · 03/06/2020 09:08

A Trump supporter? That'll go down well!

Didn't they have a Trustee who was something to do with the sex trade, as in sex work is work?

Gncq · 03/06/2020 09:03

I really don't care who specifically is pedalling shit to kids. It's the fact shit is being pedalled to kids. I don't even care that a gun slinging Trump supporter is also pedalling shit to kids, they are just one person out of many.

When the shit they've been pedalling finally hits the fan, everyone involved in this particular organisation will be held accountable including this person.

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OneEpisode · 03/06/2020 08:55

Thank you Not I’m a lousy typist. Bobbi has some interesting views!

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NotBadConsidering · 03/06/2020 08:48

It’s Bobbi Pickard, not Packard

mobile.twitter.com/BobbityP/with_replies

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OneEpisode · 03/06/2020 08:41

Mermaids has been around since what? 1980s? and Mermaids has some trans patrons, but I think the patrons found Mermaids as adults.
I’m not aware that many of the children who were Mermaids clients and transitioned early, as they lobby for, (socially, then puberty blockers, then cross-sex hormones) have chosen to be associated as adults.

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