So that's why Susie Green left

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Charity commission launches formal inquiry into Mermaids:
twitter.com/SexMattersOrg/status/1598666394610147329?s=20&t=x_Supvwk6lHkKBR7a-ESSw

About bloody time!

Yes, all of them. Get the fuck out of our schools, our corporations, out of everywhere.

I feel like that football commentator from years back, 'can you hear me Susie Green....!?'

BOOM 💥

This is still up:

https://twitter.com/nancymm_k/status/1576163953687683072?s=46&t=wPMOqoiImICeq7kMPSivTA

"I've just donated to @ Mermaids_Gender because trans children and their families deserve support and care, and organisations advocating for trans peoples rights (including my beloved @ stonewalluk ) are under attack as never before #LGBWithTheT #ProtectTransKids ❤️"

This is massive. And the whole board and all people working there must be very concerned for their roles. Because how many of them were complicit. Green certainly didn’t act in a vacuum.

I expect that the Guardian must have known something was up and that is why the mixed messages from them lately.

I wonder just what reach the wider ramifications have here.

Yeah as soon as i pressed post i thought of course they bloody won't!

Tick tick tick ⏱️⏱️⏱️

HOW many years have uppity vipers been discussing the safeguarding issues about SG and mermaids here?

How many have been booted off the site?

ALL VINDICATED.

It should have taken this long.

Safeguarding SCANDAL.

Can we do a FWR whip-round for a 60-foot-high billboard saying "WE F**KING TOLD YOU SO"?

Ooooh I wonder if this might ripple to WPATH? 🤔

ADULT HUMAN FEMALE

ALWAYS FUCKING RIGHT

@Clymene I’m practically in tears. How did we get in this state eh? Our children deserve so much better than being pawns in someone’s vanity cause 😡

This is such a relief. Some days it feels like people are finally waking up to the insanity that's been going on.

(Apart from that female... doesn't quite work )

I'm in.

Even the fox botherer must be thinking this is FUBAR by now.

uk.linkedin.com/in/susie-green-2062a047

''For over 22 years I was involved with the trans youth support charity Mermaids. 6 of those years I was the CEO, Mermaids is a national charity supporting trans and gender diverse children and young people, and their families and associated professionals. As CEO, my role was to expand our services to deal with an unprecedented growth in demand. Children and their families need support, and we needed to be there for them. I took the charity from a small, volunteer only organisation to a 2 million pound income charity supporting thousands of children, young people and their families every year.
Prior to this I worked as an IT manager at Leeds Citizens Advice Bureau for nearly early 15 years. I love the charity sector and all it stands for.''

This with bells on...

All the high profile supporters (looking at you Emma, Owen, Harry et al).

All the corporations, Starbucks, DrMartens, Asda, Wagamama, Lloyds Bank....

I'm sure someone somewhere has a full list.

Completely, it was an odd turn of phrase that made me reread their response.

For the first time ever, I am keen to hear what Owen Jones thinks.

My donation to that is ready and waiting.

From 6th to 2nd on twitter.

In order to try to reassure the CC, the trustees commission a specialist organisation (there are several who do these sort of things) to do an independent report. This will sometimes reassure CC that trustees know what needs to change and are taking decisive action. Unfortunately for mermaids, that hasn’t worked and either the findings were too damning or it was deemed too little, too late.

Absolutely

Absolutely.

I've just listened to the reith lecture too, both pieces have been v much welcomed

I'm guessing everyone that's still there are suddenly unavailable with an urgent tooth extraction so could someone else write it.

I expect someone senior will have to do it and it will be a completely sterile just using the basics of the release and no comments.