Is anyone else boycotting Tesco's for giving £80,000 to Mermaids?

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Just that really... I was shocked, especially given all the news coverage there has been about the issues recently. I would have expected them to give it to an uncontroversial charity at the very least - and ideally one that most of their customers would like to support

I didn’t know this. I won’t be shopping there again

FFS, I'm already boycotting Asda & there's things i can't get in Aldi or Lidl that I get usually get from there but got it from Tesco this week. I just want cheap muesli & weetabix

I have been using them as it was the only supermarket that would give me a priority slit at first. I don't like them as a company anyway but now I am definitely going to stop using them. Arseholes!

I was already boycotting them due to the constant screwing over of their suppliers.
That they’ll use some of that money to throw at an organisation such as Mermaids rather than something to help communities through the Covid crisis is another nail in their coffin for me.

For every boycotter there will be a new supporter.

And another child led into a lifetime of drug dependency, side-effects and unnecessary surgery? We're now starting to see how many young people bitterly regret what adults have done to them. See

safeschoolsallianceuk.net/2020/05/12/a-de-transitioners-viewpoint-keira-bell/

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I'd think the majority of their customers do support Mermaids - I think you're probably in the minority.

I think she’s almost certainly in the majority. Most people I know think Mermaids is abhorrent and not a charity to be supported

Absolutely this.

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I won't be boycotting. I have relatives who work there. I'd hate to see them out of a job. Mind you, I doubt Tesco will notice a few dozen people not shopping there tbh.

why post on this thread at all?

Because OP didn’t say ‘Is anyone else boycotting Tesco because of mermaids and by the way I only want people to respond if the answer is yes’. I don’t see why I’m any less entitled than anyone to respond to the question.

Well, I won't be
Tesco were one of the first supermarkets to really get on board with No Animal Testing of their own household and Toiletries range .

Many years ago when I was a teenager (I'm in my 50s now) they refused to buy Canadian fish because Canadian fishermen were clubbing the Harp Seal puppies to death .

We all have our own reasons to boycott/not to boycott .

And as said upthread , I don't think Tesco are going to give a Siney Shite .
They are ahead of the game with food band donations too.

It’s worth reminding people that Mermaids’ CEO took her then 16-year-old son to Thailand to have his genitals surgically removed because it’s illegal in the UK to have that procedure carried out on children. As a result the Thai government changed their law and it’s now illegal there too.

Of course she’s going to push for medication and surgery on children who are gender questioning. Any other approach would undermine the devastating and irreversible course of action she took for her child.

I don't tend to shop with Tesco anyway so I am not boycotting in any real sense. I do find myself baffled that the charity commission let Mermaids be a charity though and feel they ought to be looking more carefully at them.

The trans lobby is mighty and powerful. No one is going to challenge them until we have thousands of infertile adults suing the NHS for allowing them to be persuaded down a path of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones when they weren’t even old enough to vote.

I can’t boycott them entirely for logistical reasons, but I’ve already massively cut down what I spend with them, and will look to switch h as much of my future spending away from them as I can.

The reason is that I am clear that safeguarding of children is paramount, and Mermaids have an agenda that contravenes this directly.

If it were simply a matter of providing support and unbiased psychotherapy for children who are exploring their identify, and think they may be trans, I could get right behind them. But there isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell I’d ever support a ‘charity’ (interest group) that pushes children to irreversibly harm their bodies, fertility and future sex lives, on the basis of feelings experienced in the teen years. It’s completely irresponsible.

For those saying most people support Mermaids, I would heartily disagree. Most people who aren’t on Twitter don’t have a clue who they are or what they do, and are often horrified when they find out. The vast majority of the country are not the Wokerati of Twitter, and have very different values.

And as for big corporations falling over themselves to make themselves look good by chucking money at trendy causes, then it’s obvious that they’re only doing so because they think it’s for their own benefit, it isn’t in any way out of the goodness of their own hearts. They need to be made to realise that it will be harmful to them if they directly fund the harming of children.

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@ TheGreatWave the boycotters.

Ok.

I think a lot of boycotts can only be done from quite a privalged position. Certainly boycotting Tesco and/or Asda feels like that.

Some of the ‘support and guidance’ that has been on offer by mermaids:

Pushing ‘affirmation only’ medical approach when the NHS evidence based approach is watchful waiting (up 90% of children accept their sex after puberty)

Pushing the use of puberty blocking drugs as ‘totally reversible pause button’ which have harmful Long term side effects like locking children into transitioning, increasing thoughts of self-harm, sterility, lack of sexual development, lowering of IQ. The health regulations authority have ruled these powerful drugs which impact on the development of every system in the body should not be sold as a a reversible pause button. The NHS guidance states that the long term effects are not known.

Referring children to Drs Webberley to access the above drugs and cross sex hormones, the Drs Webberley have been struck off by the GMC for this.

Publishing very confidential client information on a publically accessible website (which was accessed by the public)

Training schools to tell teachers to affirm only (even though the NHS says do not socially transition children until they have been seen by GIDS) and for teachers to keep this secret from parents flying in the face of safeguarding.

Encouraging children to enter secret online chats with adults without parents knowledge

Training schools to illegally discriminate against girls by presenting a distorted version of the Equality Act 2010.

Training schools in enforcing regressive sex stereotypes (to be transgender relies on sex stereotypes) such as girls wear pink dresses and boys play football.

A Non-trans staff member (volunteer?) took a transwoman to court for transphobic hate crime - the case was thrown out as no evidence and the judge criticised the CPS for ever taking it to court.

I could go on. This is all in the public sphere if you actually care to look.

Yep.

Yawn.

Same old witch hunt. Can’t you go and prowl round a diff website.

And as for SafeSchoolAlliance.🙄

Thank you to those who have provided information and additional perspective on Mermaids. I now realise I have heard of this charity before and, like some others, don't agree that what they are doing is in the best interests of minors. There should be no pressure to conform one way or another at such a young age.

Yes I am.

I emailed Dave Levy, Tesco’s CEO to voice my concerns about Mermaids ant it’s practices. I urge everyone who feels like me to do the same.

I shop at Tesco because it's the only big supermarket near me. Really feel I need to rethink that now.

Very, very uncomfortable with the idea that they would give money and support to an abhorrent organisation like Mermaids.

Don't the people who make the decision where to put this sort of money look into exactly what they're are supporting?

I thought Mermaids' agenda and practices was pretty well know, at the very least it's extremely controversial.

when so much of it is devoted to hate speech against LGTB+ people

Wrong.

I have never seen any post displaying hate speech about any gay, lesbian, bi, or trans men. None. Link to one and prove us wrong.

The odd comments about trans women that break guidelines get deleted.

Don't invent shit.

I think it is hateful to tell trans identifying children that there is something physically wrong with them that needs fixing

I think you should be free to be whatever gender you want without having to change a single thing about yourself

And that's why I think mermaids is transphobic