Tesco have teamed up with Mermaids too

fucksake. I'm really glad that I weaned my household off supermarkets during lockdown (my hatred of queuing is probably unpatriotic or something, but it transcends nationality or indeed rationality.) We get those meal boxes with recipes delivered, which is infinitely more fun than grocery shopping and is making us better cooks, and also local organic veg boxes once a fortnight, and get a lot of staples at the Asian supermarket where they are cheaper and better quality.

Screw you, Tesco. Supermarket lighting gives me a headache anyway, it's been a huge improvement in my life to avoid them.

The definition of sex in the U.K. law is a combo of chromosomes, gonads, gametes and genitals.

DuDuDuLangaLangaBingBong I know 😊

I was always suspicious about KC - it’s like I could see the emperor was naked. It smelled all wrong - and I knew people who worked for it and they were genuinely lovely and committed people (although a bit sensitive/trusting). It felt like a cult of personality/naive saviour complex.

I wasn’t ‘happy’ that it fell apart but relieved that it was stopped.

To all those mentioning Kids Company I can only agree

So many disturbing things about Kids Company were never reported and the whole thing seemed to be swept under the carpet.

We have to make sure that it doesn't happen this time round

I suspect that the problem here is similar to what happened with Asda

The directors and senior managers at these corporations want to express solidarity with sexual minorities (and to be seen to express such solidarity), a noble aspiration of course.

Via diversity training and various consultancies they appoint staff in their HR and PR departments to help them to achieve their goals in this respect.

Various cultists and pro-paedophile networks, including sex cults, continue with their (it has to be said ancient and long established) tradition of using Trojan horses in the form of human assets to prepare the ground for infiltration.

When the links to these sinister networks is uncovered, as happened with Asda, there are red faces and smacked botties all round in the relevant HR and PR diversity departments.

Of course the other horrible consequence is that when these nasty networks are uncovered it can cause a pendulum swing to the far right and generate a homophobic and anti-minority backlash. This last issue is one of the reasons why people from sexual minorities should be at the forefront of exposing this appalling situation. IMO

This is absolute madness.

Corporate DOSH! Stupid autocorrect 🐟 🐠

WTF are Mermaids doing with all this corporate fish anyway?

The actual services they provide to gender distressed kids and their parents seem to be little more than a mon-fri phone line.

I see a Kids Company style cluster fuck on the horizon.

Where is the voice of Transwomen in supporting equal pay claims?

Where is the voice of TW supporting any female issue at all, including fears and exclusion of using mixed sex spaces?

Nowhere. It's like they see TW as something unrelated to females or something.

I’m sorry, are women with different opinions to the majority thread not allowed to express opinions on mumsnet?

You mean like the loving tolerance and engagement you're showing to others with different views to yours on this thread?

I never get tired of people arriving on threads to demand tolerance that they show none of to others, it makes the very overused and tired 'oh you won't allow different opinions' gambit look so stupid.

Model it. If your values for tolerance and love and inclusion are only for people faithful to your personal politics, those values are worthless.

LOL: Will those assisted in transition by Tesco to become Trans women be happy to work for Tesco for the £3 per hour less that is paid to women?

Where is the voice of Transwomen in supporting equal pay claims?

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:silence:

Ok look bullies.

I hope that soon companies learn the truth about who they are supporting and cut all ties so we can all go back to shopping how we were. Ethics and morals have gone out of the window with so many companies. I rely on Waitrose and amazon since lockdown. I'm shielded and don't drive. Asda is local to me and I have £200 of vouchers for there but don't want to spend them.

Meaning?
I’m sorry, are women with different opinions to the majority thread not allowed to express opinions on mumsnet?
I wasn’t aware of this rule.
Since you’re wondering, born with a womb and vagina and all that Jazz.

Oh look.

Visitors.

Good for Tesco!

🧜‍♀️ 💕

I always preferred Sainsbury's anyway. If they turn puritanical I'll stick to our local independent. I do most of my shopping there anyway. I know not everyone has the choice.

Why do Tesco have to be "bursting with pride" about their "LGBTQ+ colleagues"? Why should an organisation be interested in their employees' sex lives?

It's creepy.

I've just cancelled two upcoming orders and my delivery saver plan. We usually spend around £100 per week but I can't shop there now given Tesco's support for Mermaids. What are they thinking? Is Sainsbury's safe?? Their Pride support doesn't reference Mermaids.

Oh I'm exhausted from writing emails to companies telling them why I am boycotting them from now on

Can someone please share something I can start with and then edit slightly??

Pleeeease....

Tesco now boycotted along with Body Shop

[quote EmbarrassingAdmissions]Kids Company type day of reckoning is coming.

KC crashed but a lot of the major figures in it seemed to do OK and haven't had much blowback in their careers or personal finances. I can't find the outcome of last year's court case so don't know if she even lost the right to be a company director.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7025093/Kids-Company-founder-urges-judge-spare-stress-court-case.html[/quote]
I always got the impression that it was more ignorance, inflated ego (saviour complex) and stupidity (with a few dodgy apples in the barrel). Mermaids is a whole different kettle of fish.