Change of CEO at mermaids…

SG took leave during the LGBA court case that Mermaids initiated. Was a decision made that she was not going to be a witness? Was she not needed to brief her colleagues? After all she is the one, if anyone, who would know the detail.

There must be a back story around the decision to take the Charity Commission to court. It would be very interesting to know how this shit show happened. SG carrying the can. SG leaving?

Just noticed the resignation was covered by the Mail, and Times:

Mermaids boss resigns as transgender charity faces watchdog probe
mol.im/a/11471797

Mermaids charity chief Susie Green steps down

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/97fa10de-6d0e-11ed-8143-e644f9e96fa0?shareToken=b75641919126f7f2659e3254e2712b21

"Salivating" at the thought of doing irreversible harm to children? Dr Mengele much?

Yes Beware. BEAT eating disorders page linked below is what rigorous policies look like from an ethical charity that supports children. This has links to their safeguarding policy and others. Their guidelines for forum usage are rigorous and designed to support (not exploit) children.
Safeguarding should be the priority for every organisation.. Not something that comes second to the political demands of adults:

www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/privacy/

I always wondered about the designated safeguarding lead. My assumption was probably not Susie but named lead not on policy or someone who left (policy not updated).

A lot of charities get generic policy and procedures documents from great places like CVS but don’t bother to read them or understand them.

Bet Mermaids got theirs from Stonewall.

Thx @DaughterOfPsychiatrist .
If these drugs were not approved/not available for this use in Britain, is this an ok thing to do??
One would think that someone should be investigating. After all, the damage that these drugs do is not a minor matter...

Dr Norman Spack, who was 'salivating' when he first came across the idea of experimenting on children with hormone treatment.

One of the first and biggest hormone programs for young teenagers in the United States is led by a Harvard-affiliated pediatric endocrinologist, Dr. Norman Spack, at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Spack recalled being at a meeting in Europe about 15 years ago, when he learned that the Dutch were using puberty blockers in transgender early adolescents.

“I was salivating,” he recalled. “I said we had to do this.”

www.nytimes.com/2015/06/17/nyregion/transgender-minors-gender-reassignment-surgery.html

Behind a paywall, but archived here:
archive.ph/pfCqw

The FGM legislation refers specifically to the relevant body parts. Clitoris, labia menora and labia majora.

www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/31/contents

Dr Norman Spack

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Spack

What about the puberty blockers that this child was given? Where did they come from? Which doctor prescribed them, if any??
Was this legal?
So many questions.

But JJ and EW will simply say the CC are transphobic; and SG left because of the Terven.

Same old, same old.

They wouldn't publicly denounce Mermaids or SG with a gun to their head.

Well that's just a headfuck.

Yes. Ruth Hunt is still active.

'The member receives free or reduced cost copies of the book ‘The Transgender Issue’ from Penguin Random House for distribution to members of both Houses'

members.parliament.uk/member/4725/registeredinterests

Yikes. Mind you, Ruth Hunt ended up in the House of Lords after all the damage she caused.

But but SG took her daughter abroad. So the FGM laws should apply. Unless of course the FGM laws apply specifically to biological sex. And not gender. Do they even have provision for DSDs?

Can one identify into being a girl while simultaneously not be identifying into having FGM laws applied? It’s all very confusing.

I know. Sorry. 😱

Mermaids had best part of £1 million in the bank in March 2021, although suspect they will have burnt through some of those reserves.

DH (familiar with the process) also thinks that the Mermaids statement has negotiated settlement written all over it.

Of course there's always Scotland closer to home. A move across the border and she could be an MSP in a year or two. Fit right in with the SNP or Greens.

😱😱😱

God, don't give her ideas!

Of course there's always Scotland closer to home. A move across the border and she could be an MSP in a year or two. Fit right in with the SNP or Greens.

Aw, come on, we've got enough problems up here as it is!

I tend to agree. She relocated Mermaids from London to Leeds presumably to avoid a move. Starting afresh in another country where the culture difference is massive can be hard going when you're young never mind someone of SG's age.

Not impossible of course but it's not the same as a holiday or business trip. Then there's all the visa issues, she'd need secure employment and sponsorship.

I think she may pop up overseas but perhaps as a freelance speaker/consultant. Plenty of money but no upheaval of moving. I'd like to think of course she's too tarnished for even the US and Canada but sadly I doubt it.

Of course there's always Scotland closer to home. A move across the border and she could be an MSP in a year or two. Fit right in with the SNP or Greens. <shudders>

IMy experience of working with schools where there've been safeguarding "disasters" is that it's institutional failures that enable abuse. Poor leadership, lack of effective policies & practice, excessive secrecy, staff intimidated & scared to report or whistleblow - a poor communication culture where children and adults know that their views are not respected or listened to.
Very occasionally there's an individual predator who's ducked the system but (in my experience) that's rare. These people are normally enabled and empowered by closed minded & careless management.

Tbh there is certainly already enough in the public domain for the Trustees to ask SG to resign.

However, I think the mass deletion of tweets by JG is significant. It's not something that would protect SG from the issues already raised. Rather it smacks of something preemptive re: evidence of behaviour/attitudes/statements that are suddenly at best inconvenient or at worst damning and I doubt the two incidents are not connected.

Same

It's common practise in schools and should be in all organisations