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The Charity Commission has now opened a compliance case about Mermaids. One of the incidents reported was from a mother whose 14-year-old son had been communicating with strangers in secret on the Mermaids website, and then, encouraged by Mermaids staff, moved on to Discord, where strangers persuaded him to send photos of himself in sexualised poses in his bedroom. “He felt they were his friends,” she said.
Jolyon Maugham, who together with Mermaids and the LGBT Consortium initiated a case to have the LGB Alliance struck off as a registered charity, gives an indication of their defence. He called the Times’ tweet about this child being abused online “pathologically dishonest” and said Mermaids is blameless and deserving of solidarity, because it was not on the Mermaids website where the child had sent and received sexually explicit images from strangers.
Mermaids may not have been running the server, but it has a culture where staff promote the idea that it ok for children to talk about their bodies with strangers on the internet, to keep secrets from their parents (including receiving breast binders), and to share and be exposed to sexualised and disturbing photographs.
It is good news that the Charity Commission is reviewing Mermaids’ safeguarding compliance. But safeguarding is not the Charity Commission’s core competence, and the problem isn’t really one charity.
But the corruption of safeguarding, by queer theory, and fear-driven overindulgence of anything justified as LGBTQIA+ inclusion, has been going on in plain sight across large parts of the voluntary sector, the arts, the public sector, universities and beyond, for years. It requires more than a few face-saving exits, by expendable fall-guys like Bergdorf, Makings, Breslow and Mew.
It is time the Children’s Commissioner stepped in to investigate how policies and cultures driven by concern for “LGBTQIA+ inclusion” have undermined safeguarding. And it is time the leadership of these organisations is held accountable.