Mermaids in the news again has given me a flashback to about 6 years ago.
When all this trans stuff was new to me and I got a note from my son to say he was actually a girl (it's in LGBT children section if anyone want to dig)
Mermaids was the first organisation I approached. I must have emailed them a question or joined a chat board to express my shock.Can't remember which exactly.
But I got an unsolicited phone call from them.
The founder( ?) asked if I needed help. It was about as pro trans as you can imagine
I basically said I hoped it was a phase. ( social contagion! ) but I asked where they had found my number. They had used my email address and found me and my job and told me I was easy to find(!) It was all rather disturbing because I wanted to keep my sons situation anonymous.
I haven't heard from them since but I suppose I'm still in their database somewhere.
I found it weird then and I wish I had taken more notice of what was said but at that time I had no idea about them.
Not a great deal of point to my post but I wanted to get it off my chest.
My son is still my son. He's 21 now. Still some gender dysphoria there but that's a post for another day.