Cross sex hormones take IQ points off children. All the drugs and surgery being pushed to children have not been peer reviewed for long term physical or mental health effects. Indeed from what research there is, that they might actually be really psychologically damaging to young women and we do know that they effectively sterilise children. We also know that Mermaids have promoted and pushed a doctor who has been discipline for unethical conduct after they were found guilty.
But sure parents are 'unsupportive' of their children if they say they are trans for asking questions about ethics, effectiveness and safeguarding. Just minor things that Mermaids seem to have a problem understanding.
Parents should just smile and go 'sure experiment on my 13 year old child. I'm sure that will make them happy if the findings of the experiment don't turn out so good.' I understand that my child is obviously about to top themselves if I don't because Mermaids keeps promoting the idea (despite it being regarded as dangerous thing to do by anti suicide charities, because suicide is a social contagion especially in young and vulnerable people)
Asking responsible and difficult questions is pure evil and 'TERFs' should be burnt at the stake for challenging unquestioning dogma. They can't handle trans ideology because their pink brains are too inferior. They should stick to forums which do good pink things like coo at babies and share recipes. Mummies should be nice at all times and coddle their children and pander to everything they say cos parenting is nice and easy like like. Only 'bad mummies' say to their children that life is a bit more complicated than that and perhaps question whether something else is going on, what with all this strange unexplained co-morbidity going on in children who identity as trans.
Honestly it's almost as if Mermaids are an anti research, anti intellectual, anti critical oversight organisation who trot out tropes designed to unscrupulously appeal to the emotions and deliberately encourage people to abuse mothers and to try to hold them hostage to emotional blackmail, by suggesting that if they don't tow the approved line they are evil, bad parents who don't care about their children. Whilst they carry on and sacrifice their own kids upon the altar of 'progressiveness' as true believers.
Nothing says 'good parenting' like signing your kid up to a lifetime's subscription to Webberely's clinic when the NHS have turned you down and suggested a more watchful, slower and patient approach after all. It's worth a bumper amount of woke points for being stunning and brave in the face of pure oppression from ethics and accountability.
You don't get those from challenging gender stereotypes and asking why you need surgery and medication for playing with 'the wrong toys' from age three.
If Mermaids were a responsible organisation none of this would be being raised as a concern. The Times wouldn't be holding red bunting parties for them.