Trustee of Mermaids quits after speech to paedophile aid group Times article

Thank you both.

So if she is saying it was men. She is assuming their gender. But also, it would be quite difficult for mermaids to then claim its GC women, wouldn’t it?

That was weird. So does she still work with them or not? I just had a vague idea she'd moved on, but I could well be wrong.

I win, Necessary. 😜

Who is this Helen Mimmy? Is she associated with mermaids?

Helen Islan. She used to work for Mermaids - don't think she does any more.

Mainly famous for trying to bring a case against a transwoman for transphobia.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6764763/Britains-transgender-hate-crime-trial-halted-one-day.html
mirandayardley.com/en/when-a-transsexual-is-prosecuted-for-transgender-hate-crime/

Helen mimmymum is Helen Islan, who yes, works for Mermaids. Famous for taking a transwoman to court for transphobia. (And losing.)

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6764763/Britains-transgender-hate-crime-trial-halted-one-day.html

Who knows if there is any truth to the claims of abuse. Hopefully not, nobody should be subject to abuse.

Unfortunately there is a bit of 'the boy who cried wolf' going on, with hyperbolic claims of 'transphobic hate crime' which we all know can be basically fabricated out of thin air, or amount to someone 'misgendering' someone by accident.

Who is this Helen Mimmy? Is she associated with mermaids?

She claims it was men who were abusing the helpline volunteers. Firstly, surprised she is assuming someone’s gender? Surely just because they sound like men, doesn’t mean they are. According to her own view.

Secondly, how is she claiming it’s men so confidently?

Thirdly, that doesn’t fit the narrative that GC women are to blame

It's also worth noting that everything will now be framed "as a result of transphobic abuse" rather than "we recognise our failure to safeguard so many vulnerable children. 🙄

I can guarantee that whatever abuse they are getting it is not from women concerned about safeguarding. But no doubt we (particularly Mumsnet) will be blamed.

Given that so many of their activities pose a safeguarding risk - mixed age groups 13 - 16, sharing children's emails with other users, data breaches, giving "medical advice" to children below the age of consent, recommending struck off GPs to the same children, advocating children keeping secrets from parents and much more, it's hard to see what activities they can undertake that aren't a direct risk to children?

Owen Jones actually makes my blood run cold he's so revolting.

For anyone interested in reading the full judgement on the case in in Arabella's article- here it is. Mermaids were exposed as a safeguarding risk way back in 2016 - yet they still have massive influence in schools and on vulnerable children:

www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2016/2430.html

I reckon from the statement from mermaids they are panicking whilst they run proper DBS checks on all their volunteers and paid staff. Is it true that anyone has been ringing the helpline giving abuse?? Or have journalists been ringing asking searching questions??

metro.co.uk/2017/10/08/charity-advised-mum-to-force-her-son-7-to-live-as-a-girl-6984649/

'A transgender charity has reportedly been banned from contacting a family after the mother forced her seven-year-old son to live as a girl.

Mermaids UK has also been criticised for advertising ‘same day’ cross-sex hormone treatments for children – a treatment banned by the NHS, because it causes irreversible changes and can compromise fertility later in life for anyone under 16.

In a High Court case, reported last year, Mr Justice Hayden removed the child – known only as ‘J’ – from his mother after finding she had caused him ‘significant emotional harm’ and ‘pressed [him] into a gender identification that had far more to do with his mother’s needs and little, if anything, to do with his own’.

After the judgement, the Sunday Times reported, the charity Mermaids attacked the ‘horrific decision’ and insisted that J did in fact identify as a girl, and said there was ‘no evidence at all to support this judge’s views’.

However, it has now been claimed that the charity has been ‘ordered to have nothing to do with this child following their removal’.'

Fined for a data breach: Fine.
Ordered by a judge not to contact a family: Fine.
Binders being sent out to children without parents' knowledge: Fine.
CC investigate safeguarding: Fine.
Trustee resigns when its found he writes about 'desiring children': Fine.
Lottery suspends funding: Fine.

Mermaids helpline cuts hours - devastating.

He didn't pick up the nickname Squealer for nothing.

Ah. I had been giving him the benefit of the doubt.

Mea culpa.

I did look and no. No he didn't tweet anything about Jacob Brewslow.

The first mention of Mermaids in the last few days was his tweet today to whinge about the 'abuse' that Mermaids are receiving.

He is absolutely revolting.

Goodness, my Twitter feed is getting a bit weird these days.

Somebody has linked to a Facebook page showing an old photo of Jacob B sporting a somewhat unusual tattoo for a bloke wanting to oversee the operations of a a charity fir children.

I have to admit I didn't scroll back through Owen's tweets, I couldn't be arsed. It could well be that he has already tweeted about the trustee that, in Mermaids' own words, should never have happened.

I know he that these days he is just a right wing Katie Hopkins who shouldn't be given tbe oxygen of publicity, but that Owen Jones tweet has really upset me for some reason.

How fucking dare he defend Mermaids right now. A 'co-ordinated attack'.....the trustee was a paedo apologist!

Fuck you Owen, argh!

It really does make me wonder what would have to come out for these hateful misogynistic men to finally say, 'hang on a minute'. Clearly the bar is much lower than a bloke who talks about ejaculating on kids.

And he wasn't overly bothered about NSPCC rubber man wanking in the toilets either...indeed I think he became quite testerical and upset about folk taking exception to it, said it was homophobic to criticise him or words to that effect...

"No sacred castes" Owen you absolute melt. Fucking safeguarding 101.

Helen Mimmy, here still hoping this is all a bad dream...

I suppose it’s entirely possible that they’ve had a slew of telephone complaints from parents who have advised them? Or teachers, businesses & police forces they’ve trained? Or even transition regretters?

I’m sure a whole afternoon of calls like that would feel like abuse, despite not actually being so.

I hope no one is actually calling up just to want insults - they’d be far better off using the time to scroll through all Breslow’s friends and colleagues social media profiles or research the backgrounds of other trustees & staff, past or present. I bet this isn’t the only questionable appointment to slither through the safeguarding cracks

Talcum isn't devastated about the appointment of the pedo apologist trustee then? Just the closure of the helpline.