@TaviAndPort GIDS & @Mermaids_Gender always had a close relationship, right from the moment of foundation.

[WandaWomblesaurus]

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It's quite the history.

Such a pity this was happened.

Sorry, dreadful grammar.

Those poor children and their families, betrayed by the medical establishment.

😢😢😢

Yes to all the above plus I would also add that the chair of Tavi & Portman from 2015-2022 was Paul burstow former Lib Dem MP. He was part of the Lib Dem crowd who were very friendly with Helen belcher founder of transactual & trans mediawatch. We know how heavily Lib Dem’s brought into TWAW. There is no way he can have been an objective chair about GIDS

I tried to save the threadreader as a PDF but can't as no Twitter account. Have people saved it?

Fucking hell. This gets murkier and murkier. Jane Fay helped set up Trans Actual, didn't they? Who has campaigned for years to legalise extreme pornography and reduce the legal ages of the participants. And will offer to show you how to erase your hard drive, if you don't know how.

Jesus wept.

Yes, it's surprising how often things can be traced back to three or four well-known and influential TWs who prefer to stand back from the front line. They got the ball rolling, out of sight in the noughties: got people set up in vital but little-noticed positions of influence. Things like appointing the former chairman of Stonewall as Chair of the EHRC (David Isaac). It's odd how that sort of thing happened.

This is gold @WandaWomblesaurus ! Thanks to those working so hard to bring the light into this fishy business of Mermaids!

I'd start with the 2015 Stonewall Trans Advisory Group: www.stonewall.org.uk/trans-advisory-group

Or Zoe O'connells account of the 2014 "big Trans-Stonewall meeting"

www.complicity.co.uk/blog/2014/08/transstonewall-the-meeting/

Wow. The rot goes deep.