Hi we are Mermaids.
We are here to support parents and children who identify as trans. We are here to act in their best interests. Except we can't be bothered to properly read a significant report into medical transition at the Tavistock and how there are major concerns over safeguarding and not exploring other emotional concerns.
This is despite us sending lots of letters and emails to the Tavistock over the years to pressure the institution into having a singluar approach to transition in which over issues should absoluetely not be explored 'because transphobic'. Cos we obviously knew better than all the medical experts.
Now we get to shout how we are not experts. When previously we were pitching ourselves as experts in the emotional wellbeing of 'trans children'.
We are now making the point that we don't understand statistics. Nor do we recognise the law in terms of sex based rights and the rights of homosexuals. Nope. We are here to eliminate sex as a concept and replace it completely with gender on an ideological basis.
Because our ideological beliefs are much more important that us actually having a fucking clue about whether transitioning is in the best interests of all children. We believe that all children who identify as trans or all children who have parents who believe they are trans should be just taken at complete face value and to hell with whether the process might be harmful or disportionately be affecting gay and bisexual children, autistic children or children with a history of trauma. Because none of this matters. It shouldn't be talked about because it doesn't fit with our beliefs.
This is why we are seeking to remove the charitable status of the LGBAlliance. Because we can't be arsed to do our homework and understand how research works and how it might be a bit more complicated than just magically changing sex.
We know that we can not admit we have been pressuring families socially and politically into transing their kids. Because if we do we open ourselves up to a whole world of potential liability and legal responsibility. Funny isn't it, how we are effectively lawyered up in knowing what we really shouldn't be saying.
Yep thats us Mermaids. Who simultaneously claim we are acting in the best interests of all children, yet manage to somehow be negligent and ignorant of key information which they should as an institution be well aware of and able to discuss with parents and children - never mind explain well in court. We are still back at the level of using the intersex gotcha with data void and a total lack of medical understanding (by our own admission).
We are modern day evangelicials who believe rather than research. We need to spread our important message of belief to businesses and individuals to secure funding. We display a conviction in our faith as being infalliable, we target particularly vulnerable individuals, we insist on exclusivity of faith in which dissent or straying from the ideals of the 'one truth faith' is ensured through the encouragment of shunning and explusion from the group, we encourage isolation from others who do not share our opinions, and our very case is about punishing others who we see as a enemy to the faith, we like to try and intimidate and silence those on twitter who are in any way even minimally critical. We recruit by holding people hostage with the threat that they will be at extreme risk of suicide if they do not comply.
Our history is a fantastic lesson in how to be unprofessional and we've had a number of incidents involving data breeches and safeguarding breeches over very sensitive information for young people. We didn't understand that children being encouraged to put trust into adults they didn't know, behind their parents back was not really very smart. Our understanding of data protection law was a bit shit. Yet, despite there being a huge public debate over the Equality Act, we've choosen not to look this up properly and understand it. Yet we are still managing to tow that legal line of not admitting that we have been advising parents and children down the medicalisation route. We have amazing powers of selective understanding of the law.
We haven't grasped about how education is saying its irresponsible to say things like 'trapped in the wrong body' and despite us doing it for ages, we definitely absoluetely have never done this. I guess we can manage to do this by simply maintaining the idea that concept of sex is a fiction.
In no way do we bear any resemblance whatsoever to religious cults. Honest.
This court case is in no way highlighting our utter hypocrisy and a complete lack of quality in our service which those who trust us should expect.
Cos we are Mermaids and we know best. We know better than everyone else. And anyone who disagrees is a bigot who shouldn't be allowed a public or professional role.