mermaids and children in care

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This is Mermaids advice for professionals working with children in care who may be trans. It is mind boggling shallow in the way it deals with the topic (not unusual for the trans lobby).

There is no trauma based analysis whatsoever. No consideration why a child who has experienced very difficult circumstances may well want to self identify into something else.
It makes no comment that a child in care is, due to neglect and other factors, likely to be emotionally less mature than peers.
It has little understanding of the legal technicalities that would arise if a child in care (not adopted) was making these kind of decisions.

This is the affirmation model -
"If you transition, what if it’s a mistake? This is a scary myth that many trans people face day to day. If a young person tells you they are trans and want to transition it’s safe to say that they are pretty sure about it. This myth actually tells a young person ‘being trans is a mistake’ which is a very distressing thing to hear. We must be open and curious about a young person’s gender identity and support them through their transition in whatever way we can. Only 0.1% of people who transition have a reversal."

At the end it gives information about how to help the young person change their identity to have a new name and "gender marker".
How fucked up would that be for a child who has gone from their family of birth, probably through multiple placements and then to have the opportunity to have a whole identity of your own. It would be so tempting

Irresponsible and so obsessed with their own agenda imo it is harmful.

I keep reading on threads like this that we will look back on this as a scandal of the same proportions as the current child abuse scandals.
Loads of people are seeing this haopen
Please please can this be the time when these people are listened to before even more young people are supported to fuck their lives up

The Tavistock advice is sensible and balanced.

Mermaids, despite being plastered over every helpline, NHS advice site etc, do not see eye to eye with The Tavistock. Susie Greens TED talk refers to her daughter being "annihilated" when she attended. Which is presumably why she then only consulted with medical professionals who agreed with her from then on.

something why on earth aren't tavistock doing something about this then? surely they are the people with both knowledge and some power?

Because the TRA have the power of saying "trans kids will kill themselves if you don't affirm" .

Mermaids totally ignores the Samaritans Guidelines on the Responsible Reporting of Suicide

www.samaritans.org/media-centre/media-guidelines-reporting-suicide

Mermaids totally ignores the Samaritans Guidelines on the Responsible Reporting of Suicide

Many of the TRAs do - it serves their purpose both for people to believe the statistics, and for young people to believe them too.

But again, as the largest, most respected charity which is the go-to organisation on suicide, don't the Samaritans have a duty to speak out on this?

Are they aware of these unethical tactics Mermaids use? Do they know how Mermaids a) lie about the suicide figures and b) promote the idea that the choice is between affirmation or suicide for kids who declare they are trans?