Mermaids

Whats strange about this blog is that many of the so called 'facts' have been repeated many times by gender criticals for years. Case in point about the 'chat room' where a moderator offered to send a binder. This must be three years old now and has been compeltelty debunked. GCs revive them with 'wishes to remain anonymous. How convenient. Even my own anecdotal experience shows this has happened to about ten different kids so far, all with anonymous parents. How remarkable...

If it's their policy, it wouldn't be odd if it happened multiple times to multiple different people surely?

Why would any charity do this, or any organisation like GIDS, why would they treat their safeguarding leads like this and think they would just go quietly!??

Because the charity (like many others) is less about the people it professes to serve and more about preserving the incomes and reputations of those who run it.

Ooh.
Interested to see where this goes.

But everyone knows who runs the show.

And everyone knows what she thinks, and why.

I welcome this, I hope it finishes this harmful movement before any one else gets hurt, but I do wonder, exactly what are the whistle-blowers going to say that we really did not know about?!

This behaviour is unhinged!!

But quite expected when you know who runs the show!

Why would any charity do this, or any organisation like GIDS, why would they treat their safeguarding leads like this and think they would just go quietly!??

This behaviour is unhinged!!

asked to leave the organisation after raising safeguarding concerns

Clearly the mark of an organisation with a firm grasp of safeguarding and obviously well placed to care for, support and advise children struggling with identity or mental health issues. Fab.

What?! Bloody hell, this should be interesting!

What! Asked to leave because of raising safeguarding concerns? Isn't that a red flag of Soviet era May Day in Red Square proportions?

This interesting, from James Essess:

"A former trustee of @Mermaids_Gender
has reached out to me, having been asked to leave the organisation after raising safeguarding concerns internally.

Myself and others are starting to build a portfolio of evidence and are considering our options. We must keep children safe."

twitter.com/JamesEsses/status/1476681950253522952?s=20

[quote DoubleTweenQueen]They concluded in July:
ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2021/07/ico-fines-transgender-charity-for-data-protection-breach-exposing-sensitive-personal-data/[/quote]
This is the ICO decision. What's missing, is what happened when the Charity Commission was notified. Did they do anything as regards the content, or nothing?

The ICO would have just looked at the data breach. They wouldn't have done anything about the actual content as that's not their remit. The Sunday Times story had a fair amount on the content.

The Charity Commission's actions or not are still an unknown SFAIK.

They concluded in July:
ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2021/07/ico-fines-transgender-charity-for-data-protection-breach-exposing-sensitive-personal-data/

Ah, here we are:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48652970

"Mermaids UK stated it had notified the Information Commissioner's Office, the data protection watchdog, and contacted those affected.
The Charity Commission had also been notified, it said, and an independent investigation into the breach would be launched."

So the results of the Charity Commission having been notified are still to be known.

They’d rather cut up and poison their son than deal with their own homophobia and sexism
YY
They're not the only one's at it either.
I don't understand how so many people can be like this.

Janice Turner. Janice Long is the DJ who sadly died this week.

I think that the recent Times article by Janice Long (??) in which she uses the analogy of sheep and goats absolutely hits the nail on the head.

I watched one of their training sessions that had been secretly recorded. How anyone can watch that guff and take it seriously is beyond me
Why are people not able to think?

What did they expect when they were telling a boy that everything he was doing was for girls? To the point where the friction was so bad that his parents split up.

And Susie really doesn't see it. Her self awareness is zero.

It's heartbreaking.

It was watching Suzies TEDTalk that cemented it all for me too, Lizzie.

Posie Parker's commentary video where she responds to it point by point is well worth a watch and is a useful resource to introduce people who don't yet understand.

Datun

I don't know which talk it was, but she actually said to the audience, of course we did what anybody would do, and took him to the doctor. Because he wanted to play with dolls!!

It was eating that talk which woke me up to this madness. A woman who thinks playing with dolls makes a child trans, is not a suitable person to run a children's charity.

www.thesafeguardingalliance.org.uk/membership