Sky News changes its coverage following lobbying by Mermaids

[jadefinch]

Mermaids contacted Sky and other media outlets over the story on Keira Bell taking the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust to court over the poor treatment she received for gender dysphoria, and demanded that they included coverage of teenagers who are happy with the gender reassignment work they've experienced.

news.sky.com/story/woman-says-rushed-gender-reassignment-treatment-left-her-suicidal-11946763

I'd argue that this is isn't relevant to the story but the media manipulation is worse than this: They got Sky to state:

'Most gender reassignment stories are positive'.

It's not detailed either what this actually means or what evidence there is to support this

Fair coverage of Keira's story on NZ news. No mention of Mermaids.

Most gender reassignment stories are positive.

Isn't this what the judicial review is meant to investigate? If gender reassignment as pushed by Mermaids and carried out by Tavistock is the appropriate treatment, so successful that the risk of untested drugs and surgery can be acceptable?

Under the Times article, there is a very persistent poster repeating that only 1% of transitioners are unhappy

Thats cos the mermaids women was all over the bbc yesterday and thats what she was saying

(Sorry if its been said already and i missed it)

Keira's case concerns the Tavistock.

Some of those 35 clinicians who have left in recent years complained that Mermaids had too much influence, and that the Tavi were allowing groups with an ideological agenda to lobby and influence clinicians.

Mermaids seems to be proving this very point.

The Tavistock should be concerned.

But they should have taken some responsibility for their actions earlier and not left it to a brave woman like Keira Bell to do the right thing.

Just to add that on R4 World at One(?) Keira Bell was interviewed, and both in the introduction and in the interview the presenter did not in anyway bring in Mermaids or any what about the number of suicides side track.

Have now heard her speak twice. Very impressed. She says she has had to accept she will now live an androgenous (spellling?) life. But maybe this is the most positive resolution for her given what has happened?

I feel so sad for her: how many 14, 16 or even 18 year olds would be happy further down the track if their burning desire were actually granted?

I was interested to see that the cross-gender hormones are often referred to as HRT. You can't 'replace' hormones you've never had at significant levels: you can displace existing ones and introduce new ones, but that's a different thing.

I feel so sad for her: how many 14, 16 or even 18 year olds would be happy further down the track if their burning desire were actually granted?

At 14 or 15 I had the horn for Michael Douglas (Romancing the Stone). The forty-something me - with the benefit of hindsight and the wonders of the internet - is very, very glad my teen wish was not granted.

A lot of trans people refer to cross hormones as HRT. It's part of the 'born in the wrong body' narrative

A lot of trans people refer to cross hormones as HRT. It's part of the 'born in the wrong body' narrative

And using language that minimises what is actually being done:

eg. HRT instead of cross sex/wrong sex hormones; top surgery instead of double mastectomy; T instead of testosterone etc.