Trouble at Mermaids?

[DearestGentleReader90]

Hi everyone,

I have been a long term campaigner against Trans organisations and in particular Mermaids, after my 16 daughter became involved in their service and attended a radical event without my consent or knowledge. They 'empowered' her to basically not listen to any of my advice and do whatever she wants.
A friend of mine has reason to believe that there is trouble brewing and a lot of the staff and trustees/patrons are stepping down!!! Has anyone else heard anything similar?

I also was informed that the current CEO Johanna Hardy was previously employed at Gingerbread and the president was no other than the wonderful JK Rowling. I am surprised the alphabet crew havent made more of a fuss about that!!! 😮😮😮😮

DGR

I am trying to think of any way I can to speed up the process

it baffles me that Mermaids is still going. Bizarre.

I cannot wait to see this organisation fold - it was my writing to the Dept HT at my daughter’s school [asking the school not to affirm or to reference/rely upon any material from Mermaids] that lead to a surprise visit from social services and a 3-4m full and invasive investigation. It was horrendous. Susie Green was still there and I pointed out that their charity had a non-neutral agenda and that I wished to allow my child to explore and mature before ‘affirming’.

I think they may have assisted in supplying breast binders, too, though I’ve no evidence of their being the direct source. As a result of binding, DD spent her 13th birthday in hospital on IV fluids before having a breast cyst aspirated [by two male doctors, compounding the trauma].

wtaf? Have they apologised to you since the Cass review and changing DofE guidelines? What happened to you is actually horrific.

It makes me incandescent with rage that they could ever have been allowed to get away with this.

And as for Lush, a retail chain with absolutely no medical expertise, handing them out like sweets, it leaves me speechless. I'll never, ever shop there again.

Nope - that HT has (thankfully) left the profession and is in some activist teach organisation. But I do think that she was working behind my back, effectively grooming my child in the way trans allies do. I’m not fully on board with everything Ms Birbalsing espouses about education, but I absolutely feel that schools should be politically and ideologically neutral. They should not be places for indoctrinating children but teaching them to ask questions, how to explore via dialogue and instil personal/intellectual self-confidence to be able to do so.

I am not sure we will ever fully deprogramme my DD, but she is safe, intact (self-harms scars aside) and increasingly open to exploration and therapy.