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

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Xoxoxoxoxoxox · 04/10/2022 14:08

Sorry I don't have a share token but the article claims that Dr Jacob Breslow has links to an organisation that promotes 'induviduals who are attracted to pedophiles'. Mermaids have removed him now but it does show how lax their safeguarding procedures are (yet again).

Dr Jacob Breslow ... gave a presentation at an event for the US-based B4U-ACT in 2011.
According to its website, B4U-ACT promotes services and resources “for self-identified individuals . . . who are sexually attracted to children and desire such assistance”.Records show that the academic...became a trustee of Mermaids..in July this year.

www.thetimes.co.uk article/990e9e88-434f-11ed-8885-043c27446b97?shareToken=0258f847470f2b5b0bf6d1e933863c30

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Xoxoxoxoxoxox · 04/10/2022 19:23

From twitter he seems to have been a staff writer for Pink News at some point and so maybe they are distancing themselves?

archive.ph/20221004104436/www.pinknews.co.uk/2007/08/16/comment-my-journey-from-scared-teen-to-gay-activist/
twitter.com/Unity_MoT

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Live4weekend · 04/10/2022 19:22

This is major. Its made it to the BBC relatively quickly. Pink news is trying to distance itself and critical of mermaids.

I can't see how mermaids can come back from this one.

Shocking shocking shocking and disgusting. But not really surprising.

Serious questions need to be answered.

It's not just the heads at Mermaids that need to roll but those that have enabled them.

LondonWolf · 04/10/2022 19:20

JessHopeThinks · 04/10/2022 19:07

Surprisingly, PinkNews covers this in full critically and has a statement from Mermaids. Trans charity Mermaids addresses trustee who quit over speech to paedophile support group

I'm not surprised. That's pure desperation to save their own hides. They know they have to get in there hard and fast and distance themselves from this murky swamp.

ContSalw · 04/10/2022 19:16

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63137873

Knittingmonster · 04/10/2022 19:10

So the whole board of mermaids failed Due Diligence 101

JessHopeThinks · 04/10/2022 19:07

Surprisingly, PinkNews covers this in full critically and has a statement from Mermaids. Trans charity Mermaids addresses trustee who quit over speech to paedophile support group

Abitofalark · 04/10/2022 18:35

Thanks for the thread and opening post, Xo.

FreudayNight · 04/10/2022 16:48

waterwitch · 04/10/2022 14:46

Do you know if they have indicated that they intend to investigate/do anything?

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If they are aware of Allison they will know not to.

Fladdermus · 04/10/2022 16:30

Isn't this what we've always known finally coming out into the light. That their agenda isn't to help children but to make children and their parents more maleable by erasing boundaries and instilling fear in saying no.

TheClogLady · 04/10/2022 15:29

littlbrowndog · 04/10/2022 14:31

LSE have tweeted they are aware of the reports now

He’s affiliated with Queen Mary University too

‘Childhood, Law & Policy Network’

Trustee of Mermaids quits after speech to paedophile aid group Times article
littlbrowndog · 04/10/2022 15:05

This waterwitch is all they said

Trustee of Mermaids quits after speech to paedophile aid group Times article
heathspeedwell · 04/10/2022 14:59

Just sharing this informative article here so the details are all on one thread:

reduxx.info/trustee-of-trans-youth-charity-resigns-after-pro-pedophile-revelations/

waterwitch · 04/10/2022 14:46

littlbrowndog · 04/10/2022 14:31

LSE have tweeted they are aware of the reports now

Do you know if they have indicated that they intend to investigate/do anything?

334bu · 04/10/2022 14:36

Thanks for share token.

35965a · 04/10/2022 14:32

Jesus Christ that is awful

littlbrowndog · 04/10/2022 14:31

LSE have tweeted they are aware of the reports now

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Xoxoxoxoxoxox · 04/10/2022 14:18

Ahh I didn't know it was on another thread, I've just found a link to his speech, it's pretty vile.

Jacob Breslow (current trustee of Mermaids) gave a presentation in 2011 which (according to an unsympathetic attendee) compared having sex with a child to having sex with a shoe

pbs.twimg.com/media/FeKfH4xXkBMNY0h?format=png&name=large

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titchy · 04/10/2022 14:18

Wonder if someone will check with LSE whether they approved this talk...?

PiffleWiffleWoozle · 04/10/2022 14:14

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Ereshkigalangcleg · 04/10/2022 14:10

There's an ongoing Mermaids thread where this is being discussed but I think it does deserve its own thread.