Meet the Other Phone. Flexible and made to last.

Meet the Other Phone.
Flexible and made to last.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

See all MNHQ comments on this thread

Data breaches by Mermaids exposed in the Times

703 replies

truthisarevolutionaryact · 15/06/2019 18:46

Mermaids has apparently put lots of confidential data online including private emails, personal data and emails demonstrating the pressure they have put on the Tavistock.
Andrew Gilligan article - share token:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/parents-anger-as-child-sex-change-charity-puts-private-emails-online-tl0g5hwcg?shareToken=2f8ddc23419c61360023562a62e74d13

OP posts:
Thread gallery
17
QOFE · 15/06/2019 19:23

I don't understand tbh. Why was she putting private correspondence online in the first place? I get that she thought it was an email archive but why would she even do that?

Sounds like the Times has seen some very incriminating stuff about these residentials for starters and I'm surprised they haven't made more of that angle! Or is that in the pipeline...?

CarolDanvers · 15/06/2019 19:23

When is someone going to say enough is enough to this crazed person and her organisation?

misscockerspaniel · 15/06/2019 19:26

I hope the OIC takes them to the cleaners. This is disgraceful.

CaptainKirksSpookyghost · 15/06/2019 19:28

I don't understand tbh. Why was she putting private correspondence online in the first place? I get that she thought it was an email archive but why would she even do that?

So shareholders could read them apparently.
What type of shareholders want to read about personal details of children, in clothes of the opposite sex, I can only guess at.

CaptainKirksSpookyghost · 15/06/2019 19:30

'trustees' sorry, not shareholder's.

It's so trustees can read them.

Popchyk · 15/06/2019 19:38

In a previous article a couple of months ago, one of the clinicians who left the Tavistock told The Times that they now thought that the father of one of the children being treated by the Tavi was a paedophile. Who was seeking puberty blockers for his child.

Wonder if that man attended the residentials at Mermaids?

boatyardblues · 15/06/2019 19:41

Jesus, that article is hair raising. What is it going to take for there to be effective scrutiny of Mermaids?

WeBuiltCisCityOnSexistRoles · 15/06/2019 19:42

No surprise to any of us here, I'm sure. Normally it would be extremely satisfying to see the Mermaids wheels come off (even more than they have already) but it's impossible to feel happy here considering the damage caused to vulnerable DC by SG and her ilk.

The more they are exposed like this the sooner the house of cards will fall down. There is only so long that powerful people, with a vested interest, can stop the full facts becoming apparent to the general public, despite their valiant attempts to date.

SunsetBeetch · 15/06/2019 19:43

This is absolutely dreadful! What a breach of trust. Just when I thought I couldn't be any more shocked.

GrumpyGran8 · 15/06/2019 19:45

The "residentials" have always bothered me. I have a feeling that there is more to come on that.
I wonder how many of the staff and volunteers at Mermaids are now busily scrubbing their social media?

S1naidSucks · 15/06/2019 19:45

Wonder if that man attended the residentials at Mermaids?

Considering how many paedophiles there are in society and perverts will do to access children, I dare say he won’t be the only one.

SpartacusAutisticusAHF · 15/06/2019 19:45

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

missedith01 · 15/06/2019 19:51

I'm confused as to why this was thought necessary, too. If there was info that it's appropriate for trustees to have surely an IT person would give the trustees access via the Mermaids intranet. I cannot image any thought process that ended with "Oh, I'll just set up a data sharing facility outside Mermaids ... but I'll pw protect it, so it'll be fine!" Confused

DpWm · 15/06/2019 19:51

Hopefully that Lottery Grant will be reviewed

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 15/06/2019 19:51

Fucking hell Shock

claimed that no emails “to or from parents, children and families” had been involved in the breach, even after being told of examples by this newspaper

Fucking hell Angry

one surprise of the private emails is the apparent closeness of the relationship. [With the Tavistock]

Fucking hell Angry

In the correspondence, the EHRC appeared to seek trans test cases against schools and service providers.

Shock Angry

CaptainKirksSpookyghost · 15/06/2019 19:52

We all know the type of person who would love to read these emails.

missedith01 · 15/06/2019 19:53

If there's been a GDPR breech, they might need a lot more lottery cash, so it could go the other way.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 15/06/2019 19:56

That is a great article though - Gilligan gets on all the other dodgy stuff too.

The scary thing is how many other people may have seen / screenshot / shared all of this personal information before the Times alerted Mermaids?

FannyCann · 15/06/2019 20:02

Here's one trustee who ought to understand matters of confidentiality and safeguarding.

Data breaches by Mermaids exposed in the Times
Outanabout · 15/06/2019 20:10

The revelation about the EHRC is shocking. But I'm running out of gast to be flabbered, over the last few days. Everything one might have suspected to be random iffyness turns out to be worse than could be imagined

Barracker · 15/06/2019 20:10

Wow. Just, wow.

If Gilligan has his wits about him, he'll have held in reserve a great many details from that archive, to be judiciously released as individual stories over the coming weeks.

The EHRC seeking a test case is the most sinister surprise to me.
I'm not surprised at the incompetence, the zealousness of mermaids, the craven capitulation of the Tavi.
But I am stunned that the EHRC was purposefully attempting to legally obliterate the rights of girls to bodily privacy in schools.

I hope that gets focus, because it's bloody terrifying that they've adopted such a blatant bias.

RubyViolet · 15/06/2019 20:12

The Times have been keeping their powder dry. Obviously they have a team working hard in the background and when we all think it’s gone quiet, or these issues just aren’t gaining traction..... Boom !

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 15/06/2019 20:12

I find it interesting that, unlike other negative stories, Mermaids seem not to have pre-emptively released a statement as they usually do.

CaptainKirksSpookyghost · 15/06/2019 20:13

But I am stunned that the EHRC was purposefully attempting to legally obliterate the rights of girls to bodily privacy in schools.

It's not really surprising in the slightest, this is and always has been pushed down from the highest levels.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 15/06/2019 20:14

this is and always has been pushed down from the highest levels.

It certainly seems that way. I hope the Times have all the emails and comb through them thoroughly to look for more evidence of this.

Swipe left for the next trending thread