Chilling Mermaids report response to Bell vs Tavistock

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mermaidsuk.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/BvT-short-report-December-2022.pdf

It's a shocker of emotional manipulation and threats.

Mermaids blame everyone but themselves don't they.

Of course if uou lie to children about their bodies and what they can do with medical.assistance and indulge this complete delusional fantasy , you will get kids in extreme distress when the path they have been promised is not possible.

Of course kids will be distressed when it becomes clear that everyone one around them has been lying and there's no one they can trust. Especially as the whole thing advocates such narcissistic behaviour that most decent honest people who do not want to pay along with blatant lies , would likely cut ties with the person involved because that's preferable to being a part of it.

Oddly enough, I have to agree with this from the report (pg. 6).

“People who are uninformed but allowed to make decisions that impact other people usually just end up doing more harm than good without realising it.”

It pretty much sums up a lot of the well-meaning policies from a vast array of organisations.

I wonder how long it will take for Gendered Intelligence to distance themselves from Mermaids given the recent news.

The first thing that struck me about that report was how few responses they had to their online survey. Something like 230, and presumably both parents responded in several cases so maybe only represented the parents of about 150 children?

What do the parents of the 5000 children referred to GIDS last year think, or the thousands on the waiting list?

But lots and lots of children are waiting for things from the NHS. 2 years to see a physio here for severs disease. Reading it makes it seem like the only children waiting for NHS help are these kids.

The other things that struck me was the argument about legal professionals, including judges not being suitable to make healthcare decisions. It happens all of the time. Look at Archie Battersbee, his medical care was decided by the courts.

There is a breathtaking ability to make it seem as though everyone is out to get trans kids and these issues only affect trans kids. If they really want to effect change, they'd be arguing for shorter waiting lists for all children for all conditions. Or that it is never right from the judiciary to get involved in children's healthcare cases, ever.

And yy to the woeful lack of participants in the study. I immediately thought that one child could potentially have 2 parents completing the survey, maybe a step parent, maybe an aunt or uncle, maybe a grandparent. So one child's experience is amplified 2/3/4/6 times. That's not addressed in the methodology, is it? There's no list of questions for us to see either...