"Children in Need are currently funding 37 projects to the value of over £2.6 million specifically focused on young people affected by issues of sexual identity and gender identity."

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www.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/changing-lives/stories/supporting-lgbtq-young-people-aross-the-uk/
Just posting a reminder of the causes CIN promote...

I stopped supporting CIN years ago because of this sort of shit

Ooh edgy!

Well this is a pretty mean-spirited thread, even by MN standards... refusing to help children who are struggling because they are not struggling with the correct problems. Of course everyone is within their rights only to support straight people but I am surprised how many are ok with admitting that. Like a PP I never normally donate but will do this year.

@flamingogold cin fund project workers not overheads. I've been in receipt of funding, I know how it works

If you google mermaids and children in need (they have funded mermaids as well as currently funding gendered intelligence, you eventually get to an MN thread about this - Glasgow rape crisis being forced to close their waiting list after CIN withdrew funding because they don't provide support to men and boys.

www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/16405729.glasgow-rape-crisis-forced-close-waiting-list-face-face-support/

The link is about supporting children finding life difficult. There's zero about medicalisation.

Why do they give money to mermaids then?

Wow. Evil bastards.

@ofwarren

There is such a thing as a child with gender dysphoria. Age 6 Dp's relative announced they were a boy, this was 20 years ago long before the popular media discussed trans in any meaningful way.

If you haven't experienced it yourself this doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It's rare but there are cases

I choose the charities I support very carefully. I don't trust the BBC or some of the dubious lobby groups they support. I don't think schools should be jumping on this expensive bandwagon. Their purpose is to educate children. Not pile more stress onto parents.

This is a silly response. There is lots of appetite for actually helping. People are trying to protect children from damaging pseudo-help. Which is more damaging than doing nothing. Any charity which gives money to mermaids is choosing to be oblivious to the harm it's doing to children. It's pretty mean spirited to make things much worse for some of our most vulnerable children.

Where did I say gender dysphoria doesn't exist?
The mental health of these children should be supported, but not via charities that push gender ideology.
It's impossible to change sex and cruel to tell these children otherwise.

The issue isn't if they are supporting charities for young people trying to navigate their way through the current gender identity landscape. This issue is which charities they are supporting to help them do it.

The treatment of the Glasgow Rape Crisis mentioned by a PP concerns me. Any further funding to Mermaids whilst the CC is looking in to them would concern me.

I think its fair enough to support the charities where you agree with what they do and no need to support those that you don't agree with. It's not mean sprited if your money is going to help other causes. It's not refusing to help children it is refusing to support causes that do more harm than good. I'd rather help the homeless, struggling families, elderly people in poverty, people in genuine and immediate need plus overseas aid to those hit by all manner of man made and natural disasters. Am I mean spirited?

If it's about Neurodiversity or racism or parental abandonment then do that. LGBT teens are still welcome, why the need to focus on a small group in that case?

That's my opinion, it excludes people who aren't LGBT who need the help just d as much, for the sake of image- saying 'look how we're helping LGBT teens' whilst others are missing out.

Not sure that's what The original post is getting at, but my time.

Many of the posters on here 'might also like' the threads recommended below!

The issue with this area is that it's very complex.

There are a quite few charities operating in the sector who have demonstrated safeguarding failures or aren't engaging with problems arising from medical and social transitioning.

These areas need urgent investigation. But instead, we have organisations and individuals falling over to demonstrate how progressive they are and firing money at them. Beautifully demonstrated by this thread. 🙄

We need to take a step back and assess all of this carefully and objectively. Failure to do this is failing these children.

Females have been wearing gender neutral clothing for decades. This isn’t anything new.
Many high streets and you find females wearing jeans, T-shirts/jumpers/hoodies and trainers.

Females have been wearing gender neutral clothing for decades. This isn’t anything new.

What is new is the ideology that tells them this means they're really male.

Most Catholic schools don’t support children in need because part of their funds go towards abortion care for young people. Just as ridiculous imo as the ones here not wanting to support it because a tiny percentage will go towards helping kids with gender dysphoria.
It’s all children in need of support. If you have certain views that mean you don’t think certain children in certain situations should be supported then don’t donate.

I know, the idea that older women are staring at young women wearing jeans and a t shirt is beyond laughable. Were we wearing corsets and big dresses in the 90s and I just forgot?!

Yup. It’s like we have stepped back to the days of girls on play with dolls and love pink. Boys play with trains and prefer blue.

The ideology was started when companies like Lego started with their girls and boys sets for example. Many people back then asked wtf was wrong with girls for example playing with the none girly shit and it’s just buying into some bizarre sterotypical nonsense.

The concern is that they are actually creating more problems (I.e, by supporting the absolutely bonkers and self professed non-experts Mermaids).

Wasn’t even dressing like that in the 70’s and 80’s.
I used to hate wearing dresses and all that crap as a child. Made it harder to climb, didn’t want to be flashing my knickers riding a bike, on the swings and generally bouncing and rolling around.

Scary to think that because of that and hated barbie, prams and other gender crap toys aimed at good girls 😂 if I was a child today it would be assumed I wanted to be a boy.

Yea I was the weirdo as I preferred train spotting to dance lessons but so bloody what? I was just displaying my individuality rather than being a clone of what other girls did.

Well I think we can blame Lego for establishing ideas of girls and boys toys.

But not so much for the conclusion that if you like 'opposite sex' toys, you should transition (socially or medically) to that gender.

Urg, even expressing that thought is a disaster. You can't change sex and you shouldn't need to 'transition' to a 'gender identity'.