Mermaids charity paedophile & porn photos scandal in the press

I don't think they're toast. This will prompt them to do what any dodgy, safeguarding-dismantling charity with an ounce of intelligence would have done a year ago - hide it better and make 0.1% effort (an increase from 0) to make it look like they've ever read safeguarding principles. By saying the right things and putting a nominal moderator on their forums. Maybe leaving off the "celebrating 4-year-olds' gender affirmation" photos but leaving the 10yo ones.

They'll still be pushing the idea that if you have a certain combination of body and personality you need to take drugs or crush your breasts.

Mermaids was running a webinar on ASD & Gender Identity for a SEND charity in the summer. Lots of people tried to complain but the SEND charity locked down their social media. I'm seriously considering sending the Charity this article to read.

Unfortunately, Mermaids started targeting SEND children once mainstream cash started dryi g up. It's really important that safeguarding is robust in SEND sector. Some Parents are so desperate for answers which makes them venerable to sharks like mermaids.

I've seen Mews balls.
Wish I hadn't.

I hope to god this is the end of them, however as others have said, we will then have lots of tiny charities springing up and it will be a complete nightmare to keep an eye on them.

Would it actually be better if MMs stays in place with a new CEO and safeguarding staff? (Can’t believe I’ve typed that!)

He’s written a fair few articles for The Times HE supplement too!

Sadly, I do think they will just terminate a few more people and hire a new CEO and declare themselves ‘a new era’.

Sorry. I just cannot see it changing. I am pessimistic today.

Uncomfortable but important article .. goodness me this is horrendous

I hope this is the beginning of the scrutiny of all these groups. Including places like action for trans health, (who, unbelievably, were deemed legit enough to provide evidence to the government), trans actional, Gires, gendered intelligence, WPATH, press for change. All of them.

I hope they don't just stop at mermaids because it's a children's charity.

I really don’t see them coming back from this, this is just the start of what going to be uncovered.

I hope they take Stonewall down with them.

Pleasantly surprised to see the Times publishing this. I thought if anyone was going to publish, it would either be the Telegraph or the Mail (though I expect Mail Online will pick it up later).

Very interesting to see the use of correctly-sexed pronouns. Is the Times putting two fingers up to IPSO? Or will they back down and change it?

Graham Linehan also has a very good piece on Mermaids this morning - a post from an anonymous mother who complained to Mermaids a couple of years ago about their youth forum. I hope she takes her evidence to the Charities Commission.

grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/a-mother-writes-to-mermaids

Parents of children who have used the transgender youth charity Mermaids have complained to the watchdog after a worker posted explicit images and sexualised pictures “as a schoolgirl” online.

Did Mew say they were posing as a schoolgirl (wouldn't surprise me, it's not uncommon). Or are people finally stating the bleeding obvious without fear that they will be attacked for 'getting the wrong end of the stick'. Or being told 'they're just clothes so stop stereotyping'.

I know we compare this to Jimmy Savile, but this stuff is so much more in your face.

I expect Mermaids will take the view that whatever they does in theys own time is up to they and is private. Despite posting it all publicly.

Exactly. And I'm sure they will. But way The Times has written that article, people aren't buying it.

The number of porn soaked weirdoes who proliferate throughout this ideology is finally waking people up.

And yes, to whoever said they're lame. It's this odd dichotomy of huge power being given to people who you wouldn't normally listen to for five seconds.

I’ve often wondered this. So many hundreds and hundreds of really worthwhile charities - guide dogs, people with bowel cancer and heart disease, lifeboats etc etc. Why Mermaids (rhetorical question)??

Thank you @MrsOvertonsWindow this is indeed very shocking. Not just the descriptions of the graphic sexual photos but the fact that “his role at Mermaids…enabled him to attend residential events”.

I actually feel sick.

More and more shit like this will filter out over the next weeks and months. Mermaids is finished.

Thank god.

I think we know, Warrior.. But to make inferences about why a group with a particular interest would be attracted to a wider group determined to lower boundaries within children and women will get me deleted.

I can say that the wider group have created this loophole themselves and I doubt all decision makers were merely naive….

You wouldn't get these types of people hanging around a charity for strokes or hypothyroidism.

Why are they always associated with children's charities, specifically lgbt?

Any organisation who believes children and young people don’t check out people they meet in organisations, or people who have the organisation in their bio or feed are clueless.

It should be one of the first things checked before hiring.

I think you're right. The other thing that this brings into question, and I don't want to distract from the issues with Mermaids, but I do want to draw attention to further safeguarding issues, is that this person has been posting on Tiktok and had an open IG, but there was nothing done by either SM provider about the content.

They checked their views on whether women were deserving of rights and that they had pronouns in their bio….

Yes Scully. Safeguarding is offensive.

As JKR tweeted the other day:

I say this as someone who's been on the liberal left all her adult life: own goals don't come any more spectacular than 'if you care about child safeguarding you must be right wing.'

I am shocked that anyone thinks someone with this content online is an appropriate candidate for a role working with children. What checks exactly did this dubious organisation carry out before employing this person?

Kink shaming is too. Let’s not forget the extremes that leads to as well

Didnt take long to figure out if you attach a label or flag to inappropriate behaviour then no one will say anything. In fact police will even pose holding your leash..

Yes Scully. Safeguarding is offensive.

Kink shaming is too. Let’s not forget the extremes that leads to as well.

How on earth can safeguarding be done when ‘kink shaming’ is considered an act of violence and can then be extrapolated to not ‘shame’ child sexual abusers. The inconsistencies are mind blowing.

When " entry requirements" seem only to be " do you hate terfs/women enough " one is not surprised you get some dodgy fuckers..

Safguarding is offensive remember.