Mermaids - new statement

[MsMcWoodle]

I can't find a thread that mentions this. Sorry if this has been covered but didn't want it to get lost:
Times Lucy has tried to question Mermaids again - but as usual, they won't be questioned and just put out a statement:
www.mermaidsuk.org.uk/tavistock-complaints-process.html

That is really odd. Either the Times have backed down, or they are going to reveal something big soonish.

Or they are watching how Mermaids have reacted each time and thought that's interesting.

Testing the water maybe

Or maybe the article Lucy is working on got bumped by the article on the TRA toolkits for schools. I think the Sunday Times may have an editorial policy of not having two articles on transgenderism in the same issue.

I think if the times want to run a series of big stories on the same matter, they'd pick a week where a big story is less likely to be overvshadowed.

So as other politics are kicked slowly down the road by short extension and deadline, other things are put on hold.

The timetable of the last 3 weeks has changed rather a lot in terms of what was expected and is a bit in limbo at the moment. That just gives a bit more time to research further too.

Brexit has a lot to answer for.

Well the Telegraph really have the internet in their sights....

I just caught the end of the paper review on R4. They mentioned The Times and “Transgender Children” but I didn’t get the whole thing.

It’s the front page headline for tomorrow.

Scroll down.

news.sky.com/story/mondays-national-newspaper-front-pages-11687317

Here we go.

7/4/19 HSJ Interview with Susie Green (CEO Mermaids) "currently involved in writing care guidelines for prepubescent children as a member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health."

(extract)
"In the meantime, [Susie Green] urges NHS staff – especially decision makers – to spend time with trans children.

“People’s opinions are being formed by the media – who make an outrage out of something that is just part of a person’s identity. [But] it should be these young people having their voices heard and having their opinions listened to.”

She adds that Mermaids often facilitates meetings between trans children, their parents and those “who are making massive decisions [affecting them] without the knowledge or understanding of what [their] lives are actually like”. (continues)
www.hsj.co.uk/comment/the-bedpan-gps-are-scared--i-dont-blame-them/7024816.article

thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3553932-Susie-Green-writing-healthcare-guidelines-for-pre-pubescent-children

bit more than just providing information & resources?

Interesting framing as 'gay conversion'.

I know it's not about the "personalities" involved and we should be celebrating that light is finally being shone on this horrendous scandal but I've just seen that the minimising/dismissing has started already

Aaron Bastani
‏*@AaronBastani*
Part of the ‘respectable’ British media increasingly resembling Fox News is the Times going full batshit

In the 🗑

twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/1115008483689095168

Heartening comments on that Twitter feed

How many comments are there supporting Bastani? On his own twitter feed?

Yes, that's true!

important current thread with links to four Times articles highlighting serious Safeguarding & Duty of Care issues concerning the treatment of children questioning their gender identity issues. The roles played by GIDS Tavistock, Mermaids, GIRES & Gendered Intelligence are criticised by medical professionals:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3553935-Times-article-calls-to-end-transgender-experiment-on-children

Yes!!!

Well done everyone at The Times! 💐

Have just done a quick trawl of the usual Twitter mouthpieces.

LOJ: POsted the link and is getting more or less slated for it, with particular mention of the gay conversion sections (he is a gay man).

Susie Green: Not a peep. Odd, that.

(Not Dr-on-Twitter-anymore) Adrian Harrop: Not posting in his own name, but trying to throw NHS staff who contributed to the article under the bus by RT an article by a Trans NHS account.

Stonewall: Nothing (since Apr 4th). Strangely quiet for such a gobby organisation.

Mermaids: Another oddly silent account.

Susie Green (once more for emphasis): Not. A. Word.

Interesting buzz

Quite so, Fazackerly. I mean, Mermaids had clear knowledge that something was coming and the jungle drums would have been on high alert for it.

And other accounts are vainly trying to spin it (ineffectively but almost charmingly desperately, if the topic was not so horrifying).

At worst case, one of their MN minions could have shared these threads hours ago...

I'd say this is impossible to spin, but nothing surprises me anymore.

I am waiting for.somwthing big to happen, like when someone has finally stuck up for themselves in the face of abuse. The abuser is never happy.

All five (clinicians) said they believed that transgender charities such as Mermaids were having a “harmful” effect by allegedly promoting transition as a cure-all solution for confused adolescents. The charities deny the allegation.

The Times isn't mincing its words.

I'd say this is impossible to spin, but nothing surprises me anymore

Donald Trump is president and you still think this??!!

Na it just means there will be an all out DARVO offensive coming. Particularly against MN.

Helen Webberly isn't being quiet but is seizing the opportunity to promote her grift

No comment from national lottery fund?