Under attack and fundraising to 'fight back'? I'm not going to click on the 'yes, I'll help' button but what are they going to do? Pay for legal advice?
Spend it on yoga instructors so they’re bendy enough to kiss their own arses goodbye.
I want to feel happy about the potential downfall of Mermaids but somehow I don’t. I feel sad for the parents who are going to realise that - out of blind faith or even against their better judgment - they have permitted harm to be done to their children. Sad for the children who are going to realise they’ve done irreparable harm to their bodies in actions that will have repercussions for the rest of their lives, be it physical changes, stunted sexual development, side effects from drugs or potential infertility, for which there will be no cure. Sad that they’re going to see the curtain pulled back from the glittery Emerald City Wizard to find they were sold a lie.
But mostly angry that it took so long to get here, and that so many people - mostly women - have been demonised, threatened, silenced and bullied along the way because of this pernicious ideology.