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

[loveyouradvice]

I've just realised that I think I'm responsible for setting up a second thread when the first one reaches capacity.... which it did superfast. If anyone wants to take a look its here (Crossing fingers this works - its the first time Ive done this): www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/a3959288-Is-anyone-else-boycotting-Tescos-for-giving-80-000-to-Mermaids.

I learnt so much from all the posters - a very interesting discussion

And these questions posed by posters are amongst the most important and were awaiting replies from Mermaids supporters:

Is the medicalised pathway appropriate for children?
Can anyone say definitively that puberty blockers are safe?
On what basis would signposting to the Webberley’s be appropriate
What are they doing to highlight the connection with the increase in referrals for those children with ASD?

I'd ask @mnhq to move this to the trans debate forum.

What a sad little person you are.

I doubt you will get answers op.
I was one of the posters asking questions specifically about Dr Webberly who is struck off in this country, now operating from Spain, giving blockers to children without meeting them.
Mermaids know all this but they are still signposting vulnerable and desperate people to her.
How can anyone defend that?

Me, @loveyouradvice, and cancelling our Tesco credit card.

I still haven’t had anything beyond an automated reply to my complaint to Tesco’s chief exec. It said they had received a lot of complaints (good!) and there would be a delay in responding to them all.

@Marmozet, there are lots of us 'sad little persons' who are doing the same thing. Not because they think others will follow, or because they think others should, but because they choose to spend their money in line with their beliefs. In this case their beliefs that all children are entitled to protection.

Everyone is entitled to spend (or not spend) their money wherever they like.

I say "well done Tescos!"

Less hateful bigots taking up space when I'm doing my food shop! Everyone's happy!

No, they have been fantastic and the only supermarket from whom I've been able to order deliveries every week during lockdown. Their drivers have been amazing and I shall continue to have weekly deliveries in the future.

I do not approve of Mermaids and think if any action is needed it should be against them, not Tescos.

PS I suggest you take a look where your pension fund is being invested; I'm sure you'll find something to get you into a froth.

For the posters who are fine with Mermaids, and calling us "sad" for being worried, are you HONESTLY ok with what Mermaids is advocating? Untested hormone blockers for children? Being told that a male child is actually female for liking dolls? That actually astonishes me.

Its hateful and bigoted to be against sterilizing gay autistic and traumatized kids with cancer drugs?
Ok then.
Very strange world we are living in now days.

Everybody can shop where they like but in terms of this topic ....

Should Tesco be giving money to a group that sends worried families to buy life altering drugs for their children from a struck off doctor
as Mermaids does?

Yes or no?

Should Tesco be giving money to a group that sends worried families to buy life altering drugs for their children from a struck off doctor
as Mermaids does

Yes or no?
My answer would be No.
I'm also not shopping our local Tesco anymore, I'll stick to Aldi and Asda and the Lidl when it opens.

Nobody will actually try to answer any of these questions.
How can they, its completely immoral and gross and indefensible.
Standard response is to run in, shout hate, bigot, and transphonic and then piss off again.
Or derail the thread completely like the last one.
Answering the pertinent questions about children's health and safety, never happens.

I had no idea about this.
I won’t be shopping there again till that is addressed.

@PrudyPayntersBlouse

I'd ask *@mnhq* to move this to the trans debate forum.

Why? It’s important. Everyone should see it.

Prudy there isn't a trans thread on Mumsnet I don't think... and if there is, I suspect it has a very specific purpose.

Longing for the day when someone who is pro Mermaids actually answers the questions so many of us have asked, rather than just throwing insults at us.

It is such an important debate and one that can't happen including everyone if certain groups just say No Debate

Very satisfying emailing them about my boycott. I’ve been a customer for years. But no more. This is terrible.

It is wrong for Tesco to give money to Mermaids. It would be wrong for Tesco to give money to NHS Charities Together, Oxfam, NSPCC, The Conservative Party or any cause you think is more or less deserving.

No company should give money to any charities, NGO's or political parties. It is not their money - it belongs to the owners/shareholders, (who are free to give their own money to whichever causes they support). It is like borrowing £10 from a friend, and paying them back only £8 because you put two quid in a charity box.

It’s to save tax for them of course.

It doesn't save them tax.... or at least it costs them, but less because they give out of "untaxed income" .... so 18% of the £80,000 would have been tax... but rest comes out of profit.

I'd say its marketing - they hope giving Tesco's a good image with staff and customers..... I hope they realise how this is backfiring