Change of CEO at mermaids…

She was kept away from giving evidence in the LGBA case, interestingly by people who weren't experts and hadn't read anything. This might have been brewing for a while.

I suppose it could be the good old ‘financial irregularities’ that afflict many a charity. Suddenly someone realised that there really shouldn’t have been twenty grand ‘resting’ in the petty cash tin after all, that kind of malarkey.

Hadley Freeman makes some good points

I’m not waiting for celebrities such as Emma Watson to own up to their foolishness, mainly because I don’t care what Emma Watson thinks about anything. But all the journalists, teachers, editors and activists who endorsed Green’s obviously ludicrous ideas and shouted down anyone who didn’t, they really need to take a long look at their judgement, their motives and themselves. Because Green never once hid who she was.

unherd.com/2022/11/mermaids-useful-idiots/

They're utterly clueless. They tweeted they were giving away sweets at Pride and for trans kids to come and find them, and they'd also get hugs from a soppy Labrador.

Are they actually stated an another tweet that they were looking for youngsters without any parental support.

😂

@Birdsweepsin how did you know?

Those drugs were just resting in my account

Erm....I won't need a DBS check will I? I mean I can explain the drugs possession charge, but I'd rather not.

Yay! You can be head of security and safeguarding lol.

Minder f'ing autocorrect

Oh yeah, I'm up for the mindset job, I'd be good at that, I used to work in construction I'm good at making grown men cower.

Unless something has been uncovered about volunteers contacting minors from the forum or helpline. I wouldn't put it past them not seeing how utterly inappropriate that could be. Munroe Bergdorf was a prime example of not understanding how asking kids to DM was incredibly dodgy even after the outrage so it seems to be a thing in these circles. Safeguarding - what's that?

We'll have to set up a Rota.

That'll be successful, given how tone deaf she has shown herself to be.

I am sceptical about a big scandal, simply because Mermaids don't actually provide many services themselves - they mainly signpost to other organisations.

I'm sure the helpline is as dodgy AF, in terms of encouraging kids to persist in transitioning, but that wouldn't be a Mermaids-specific scandal, given that the NHS in England was basically doing the same until a few months ago, and NHS Scotland still is.

I suppose the local groups may have generated safeguarding issues but they'd have to be pretty huge to have brought down SG, given that she could probably have got away with saying the problem was an isolated issue at a local level, blah blah.

Ooh yes. I’m gonna get the job, get settled then bam! It’s all DBS (enhanced). And no discord or chat, watchful waiting and compliance with the cass report. @Boiledbeetle wanna be my minder? It’ll be fun. We can make mermaids a force for good and a resource to help GNC youth.

Happy's been very thorough all the correct photos, dodgy alliances and peer reviewed made up data. If she gets the job she's going to need a handler to make sure she doesn't succumb to their mind games. We'll have to set up a Rota.

I was looking for something on my tablet earlier and forgot I was looking on the device with the screenshot of said cocklaidoscope

It's truly vomit inducing, and I say that as someone who has been known to be partial to a bit of cock in my time.

Cocklaidoscopic.

Hm. It will depend on which bits of your anatomy you were showcasing and whether you'd photoshopped wings onto them tbh...

Ooh fingers crossed. You'd be so perfect. All just a happy little chicken nothing to see here then bam

DBS checks for all

Safeguarding

Watchful waiting

No MAP adjacent employees

No people dealing with children who also work in porn.

No breast binding

no medically fucked up kidsis

No turning children against their parents.

You'd have no staff left by the end of the first week

They can’t disband! I’ve just applied for SG job! I didn’t make my insta and TikTok public for nothing I hope!!

That's striking. Striking projection of her own homophobic ideology too.

Jo Bartosch on Mermaids. The proportion of growth in income and people is astonishing.

www.spiked-online.com/2022/11/28/is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-mermaids/

"In its early years, Mermaids, which formed in 1995, did not refer to ‘transgender children’, but to ‘<a class="break-all" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100801165841/www.mermaidsuk.org.uk/New%20Mermaids/aboutus.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">teenagers and children with gender-identity issuess’. Even in 20155, the charity’s website explained that its aim was to ‘let the child develop as he or she is naturally meant to, while loving and accepting them for who they are at the present time’...

Under Green’s leadership, Mermaids’ total income rose from just over £80,0000 in 2016 to £1,847,868 by 20211.

Mermaids is unrecognisable from the tiny parent-support group that was founded nearly 30 years ago. It now has around 44 staff members and 110 volunteers...
... the remaining staff have a choice. The easy option would be to carry on as they are, deflecting all criticism as unprovoked attacks. But the honest option, the honourable option, would be to admit to Mermaids’ mistakes and disband the charity once and for all."

Yep. My one consolation from all this is the knowledge that I would not be in the crowd shouting 'burn the witch!'

More likely, up on the stage.