I agree. But at some point witnesses for Mermaids are going to be asked what is the reason for the case? Both charities operate in the same 'sphere'; LGBA is dedicated to espousing the rights and protections afforded to LGB people, particularly adolescents, and Mermaids, isn't.
Because of nature of what Mermaids is alleging, I suspect that the Tribunal will be watching the videos and reading the written material that LGBA produce. That will make it abundantly clear that LGBA is interfering with Mermaids raison d'exister. If LGBA succeeds in cutting-off, or significantly reducing the supply of gay and/or autistic adolescents for the gender industry, Mermaids will be starved of the supply that it targets its promotional activities against. The LGBA is the primary source of opposition to 'transing-the-gay' and 65% of the children and adolescents referred to The Tavistock in 2012 were gay and/or autistic and in the intervening decade it seems unlikely that percentage reduced. So the 'transing-the-gay' industry is pretty big.
The LGBA's concerns about transing-the-gay were expressed to a Parliamentary Committee
The young lesbian’s sense of her body thus becomes problematic. She wishes to assert her physical being in a different way from that regarded as appropriate for the stereotype encouraged by her peers and by images presented in the media. But the mode of body expression she may favour is not ‘acceptable’ and she may therefore suffer from shame and guilt about her body.
In recent years, the result may be that she decides that she must be transgender. Not fitting into the accepted body presentation for a girl, feeling ill at ease in her body, she finds a ready welcome as a ‘transboy’: not just among her peers, but even in the NHS system set up to provide care and treatment for young people with varying types of what we might call ‘gender confusion’.
In other words, girls struggling with lesbianism are encountering pressure from peers and social media to identify as ‘trans’, and clinicians are going along with this ‘self-diagnosis’.
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This link between treatment for gender dysphoria and underlying homophobic attitudes – including attitudes to non-stereotypical physical presentation – was reaffirmed by comments in the BBC Newsnight report of 18 June 2020 on GIDS and the use of puberty blockers.It is clear that those who have internalised negative feelings about their emerging lesbianism, or whose families are homophobic, are being encouraged to think they are boys, and are taking
puberty blockers followed by testosterone to “transition”. This has everything to do with a negative body image mixed up with negative feelings about their sexuality.
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Lucy Bannerman in an article in The Times of 8 April 2019 concerning the Tavistock’s Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) writes that ‘So many potentially gay children were being sent down the pathway to change gender, two of the clinicians said there was a dark joke among staff that “there would be no gay people left”.’
(Written evidence submitted by LGB Alliance (MISS0053)
The U.S. sex reassignment surgery market size was valued at USD 1.9 billion in 2021, $2.1 billion in 2022 and $5 billion in 2030. The UK market will be obviously smaller, but it will not grow unless the LGBA can be removed from its opposition to transing-the-gay. Mermaids isn't on its own; tens-of-thousands of UK homophobes support the attack on LGBA and there are plenty of Collaborators amongst the gay community who do the same, such as Owen Jones.
Nonetheless the issue is a commercial one; the gender reassignment industry and BigPharma need access to gay and/or autistic adolescents to support its growth.