NHS funding £3mil to site promoting trans to children

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This is absolutely appalling

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/21/pro-trans-website-for-children-backed-by-nhs-investigated/

https://archive.ph/pkHm9 this'll see you over the paywall

I am talking about a 20 year period which is how old Kooth is.

I am talking about 20 years, which is how long Kooth has been around.

Yes, 20 years sounds much more realistic. And it would be such a terrible shame to lay waste to 20 years of good work. But the experience of so many other organisations so far - from Stonewall to GIDS to Rape Crisis - is that it has been impossible to get the ideology out of the service even when it has been damaging the people it's supposed to be helping.

So I hope it's easier for Kooth - a signpost to other services can be changed fairly easily, after all! - and I hope it can continue to do its good work.

So you are saying that Kooth prevents 50 teen suicides a year? (1000 over 20 years = 500 over 10 years = 50 a year.)

So, if there are 200 teen suicide a year as per a PP’s data, then according to you, teen suicides would be 25% higher every year without Kooth?

If they could evidence that claim, surely there’d be a peer reviewed study into their success.

I’ve had a look at their website, it says it’s site for teens to “access support from other young people and professionals” and the site’s recommendations include: a coping box, a good mood playlist, and journaling.

Kooth works with young people who use the one to one counselling service - around 30% present with high distress levels and suicidal ideation appears on every shift conducted by the team. 200 young people take their own lives but many more than that think about it, sadly.

Cannot tell you how many times Kooth has been pushed/recommended/urged on me for troubled DD. It's terrifying to think how much danger our children are in from the professionals who should be supporting them.

This is yet another example of how this ideology breaks organisations. Kooth should be supporting children to understand that for the vast majority, their discomfort with their growing bodies can be supported and will be resolved as they mature. Instead they ignore their safeguarding responsibilities and push children in the direction of the dubious groups promoting breast binders and puberty blockers.

Children's safety should be the priority - not the political demands from trans activist groups. Yet every time the activists win over the needs of children.

How do you have access to that level of detail of what happens “on every shift conducted by the team”?

One would have to be an employee of Kooth or a Director of Kooth to have access to that level of detail.

Teens need taking away from ruminating on mental health and looking inwards, not hiring more and more unqualified do gooders to make more teens feel worse about their problems. Thus driving more funding to these things and not to other activities that take teens away from the rumination.

The more funding you throw at this the more funding you will have to keep throwing at it.

EnidBlytonne · 22/03/2024 00:34

The footer on one of their emails to schools. (Click to read the whole thing)

I'm an unsurprised that they boast of being supported by BACP. I'm a bit stumped by Lemon's claims and that they seem to be ignoring the information about the harm they've done, by recommending children to organisations which promote breast binding and the like, as well as the terrible anorexia "advice."

Perhaps they do provide some good services, but the trans and anorexia services are far from good and in fact, actively destructive.

Kooth makes money for its investors, so it'll be seen as a success. "post-tax profits of £2.5million last year."

So Kooth is a commercial enterprise which gets £3million from the NHS and retains £2.5millon of that as profit?

And on this thread we have someone claiming to have detailed knowledge of what happens on every shift operated by this commercial enterprise and also claiming that teen deaths would have been 25% higher over a period of two decades without this commercial enterprise’s activities.

That could answer SinnerBoy’s question about why that poster is ignoring the harms.

Yes, 500% profit is a huge margin.