With a scheme to send harmful breast binders to children behind parents’ backs and staff pushing puberty-blocking drugs, children’s transgender charity Mermaids – whose promotion of breast binders the Metropolitan Police has said is potentially abusive – is a scandal unfolding before our eyes. Is it time to withdraw its status as a charity, asks the Mail.
In the past month alone, [Mermaids’] online help centre has told users (who say they are young as 13) that controversial hormone-blocking drugs are safe and “totally reversible”.
Mermaids repeated such claims when approached by the Mail, saying the drugs are “an internationally recognised safe [and] reversible healthcare option”, yet current NHS guidelines say “little is known about the long-term side effects”.
Elsewhere on its chatrooms, a Mermaids moderator publicly congratulated a 13-year-old who had written on the website that they were transgender and wanted drugs and “all the surgeries”.
Evidence also suggests Mermaids has been running a free “binder scheme” since at least 2019, sending the items to adolescents who say their parents oppose the practice…
Yet all this comes despite the fact that Dr. Hilary Cass, the former president of the Royal College of Paediatrics who is leading a review of trans children’s services for the NHS, has described the restrictive garments as “painful and potentially harmful”.
The Metropolitan Police has also confirmed that if instances of minors using binders are reported, they will be treated as potential cases of child abuse. (Binders have been shown to cause instances of breathing difficulties, chronic back pain, and even changes to the spine and broken ribs.)
Amid mounting criticism – including from author and women’s rights campaigner JK Rowling who tweeted on Monday that those who have “been cheering Mermaids on without doing the slightest bit of due diligence” should feel ashamed – the Charity Commission said this week it would be taking a closer look at Mermaids.
These revelations then will undoubtedly cast doubts over the influence and reach of the charity, whose close-knit relationship with London’s discredited Tavistock Gender Identity Clinic has been repeatedly highlighted by former clinicians turned whistle-blowers over the years.
Tavistock is set to close its doors next year, following a review in July by Dr. Cass, that found the centre’s treatment to be unsafe.
Some critics are now calling for Mermaids to be shut down, too.
“It has always claimed not to give advice for medical issues and yet its chatrooms consistently show people giving advice, often behind parents’ backs. It has not been fit for purpose for a long time,” says Stephanie Davies-Arai of Transgender Trend, an organisation of parents, professionals and academics concerned about the current trend to diagnose children as transgender.
The charity, which in 2016 controversially appointed as CEO Susie Green, a former IT consultant with no medical training, has received the endorsement of Prince Harry, who met with Green and invited the charity to join his Royal Foundation’s work on mental health. In 2019 it also received a lottery grant to the tune of half a million pounds, and shortly afterwards Starbucks announced a fundraising partnership with it.
Yet this was against a backdrop of clinicians at the NHS Tavistock children’s gender identity clinic warning about the clinic’s “unusually close” relationship with Mermaids, with former Consultant Psychotherapist Marcus Evans, who had worked at Tavistock for decades, breaking cover in 2018 to say that it “interfered with the ordinary clinical environment”.
Father Ted writer Graham Linehan, a prominent critic of Mermaids and transgender ideology, said it was “extraordinary” that “you now have a situation where a doctor has put on record that she is prescribing hormones to children on the recommendation of a former IT worker with no medical background”. Like many who speak out against transgender ideology, Linehan has taken a lot of flak, and says his planned stage show was recently pulled by producers Hat Trick because of it.
Linehan adds: “Mermaids joins a long line of British scandals happening in plain sight. It is promoting damaging concepts and interventions for children, and it is doing it publicly time and again. How much more of this do we have to see before it is stopped?”
As questions are raised about Mermaids’ charity status, it has itself recently mounted a legal challenge to the Charity Commission’s decision to award charitable status to the LGB Alliance, a gay rights organisation that is critical of current transgender ideology and policy. The hearing is ongoing and has been adjourned until November.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: The Telegraph reports that Mermaids is being investigated by the Charity Commission, which says it has opened a “regulatory compliance case” after concerns were raised about the transgender charity’s “approach to safeguarding young people”.
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Israel and Britain hedging their reckless bets.
“Let’s hope the Government follows it.”
Indeed. But is the Government in charge of policy?
Hasn’t it got enough? What more do you need than the bleedin’ obvious?
Vaccination will kill many thousands of children who are at no risk from Covid-19, but remarkably they still need more information.
I suppose big pharma etc. will be able to hide it?
(And out of interest, how many have died/will die from hunger, disease etc. in the third world due to lockdowns (and what is the UK’s share of responsibility)? Are the Grauniad covering this? if not, why not?)
This makes me angry. Deaths and disability from malaria, polio, dysentry, malnutrition and on and on. Someone arrives with a vaccine to *save* people when access to clean water, healthcare, education is needed.
Just think of all the good that could have happened if the money had been spent curing the worlds real ills and issues.
Yes, it’s heartbreaking. I don’t know what we can do.
Refuse all Government directives and coercion. Put questions in the minds of your friends.
yes, I’d previously assumed that the climate scare would be the biggest waste of money this century, but it seems I was wrong. How many millions of lives could have been saved with the money squandered on this nonsense (though it seems that to some of the people behind this, population reduction was the point anyway)?
The climate connection is starting to be made. It feels so predictable. Read an article on BBC the other day, my mistake. ‘We know the world is overpopulated’ it stated. Emerging economies forced into *sustainable* practices that will keep them poor.
“Sustainable” always means subsidised (and thus economically unsustainable), so you can guess the establishment are taking a big cut.
They’ll be figuring out how to ramp up the alleged risk factor through some new variant or similar.
“No Benefit, lots of Risk”.
“Hmmm, but I’ll lose my phoney baloney job if they don’t get jabbed.”
Well the logical thing to do would be to treat it the same as every other drug and require a 2- 3 year RCT before it is considerwd for approval.
After a this is what the Covi-
Zealots screech whenever Invermectins success is mentioned.
The Covid vaccines are clearly dangerous and there can be no acceptable reason to run trials on children, who we know can only be harmed and will provide no benefit. Any person allowing their child to participate in a Covid vaccine trial is clearly an unfit parent. Any person organising or involved in running such trials should be charged with planning an assault on minors.
I suspect there is a shocking level of ignorance about these “vaccines”, even more than of basic numeracy (perhaps not unrelated).
And of course as I’ve said previously, there’s a pervasive and sophisticated propaganda campaign for these “vaccines” across politics, media, science etc.
Same with those snotrags people have been wearing. Be nice if everybody did the right thing, but there are some formidable obstacles to overcome. The crooks responsible for all this nonsense pretty much run this planet, unfortunately.
It is a Government mass crime – should it take place.
Effects on fertility on embryos and children cannot be discovered in such a short period.
It’s the best we can hope for at the moment.
It might keep the teachers unions at bay, at least.
remind me how many teachers have died of (or even with) Covid-19 after becoming infected by their pupils? And why their unions don’t know better.
I’m not holding my breath, given the obvious tactics from yesterday of pushing luck to the furthest extent..
… but it will be interesting to watch progress – a bit of a weathervane.
We should feel sorry for kids in America that are unwittingly taking part in a massive scientific experiment. Fingers crossed that it doesn’t go horribly wrong for them, even though this would make vaccination of kids more likely in this country.
Whose parents are knowingly enrolling them in a mass experiment.
Germany’s vaccine authority has decided against it, except for children with specific diseases and then only with consultation of the doctor.
Has the EMA not decided against it either?
U Turn by Friday? Regardless, my kids over my dead body.
…until they have a rethink in a couple of days then reverse their decision. What’s it called- oh yes, a fluid decision, nothing firmed up, keeping their options open. Another tactical strategy – they’ll increase the ‘case’ rate, start pressurising the adults again, intimating if the uptake doesn’t radically increase, there’ll be no option but to inject the kids so it’s up to the adults to step forward and bare their arms. I think it’s called blackmail.
Theatre. They are intent on vaccinating our children. The only thing that will stop them is if they think they can introduce Digital Compliance ID without the need to vaccinate children. They are not sure that is possible.
I suspect they will u-turn and defer vaccination of U-18s.
They don’t need them vaxed for the digital passport to be effective. The passport will be used to control adults’ behaviour with Chinese-style social credit scoring, to be topped up with aCarbon Credit Rating to suit the climate change agenda.
Children will have to be vaxed as soon as they reach 18.
That could be the reserve position, till they “tweak the vaccines”.
Dear JCVI, if that advice is sensible for under 18s, why should we older ones be expected to be any safer taking this experimental shit?
My take on this is that they will not vaccinate children. The trials have already shown injuries and it is inevitable that there would be deaths. Roger H estimated that 1 in 1000 children might die if jabbed. In my area (Windsor and Maidenhead) there are around 60000 children. If 60 children died then this would wreak havoc. Not only would it bring the whole thing to a grinding halt but it would also affect the confidence in (real) vaccine programmes. They would not want either of these things to happen – this could not be covered up.
I am waiting to see what happens with the, say, 18-30 age group injuries and deaths which will also be difficult to bury, because they will find it difficult to account for the “coincidence” of onset of illness.
The fertility issue – possibly the big one in all this – will take at least a couple of years – minimum – to show up. I think that they had hoped there would not be so many immediate effects because if there weren’t, the reduction in fertility could have gone ahead no problem, and by the time discovered – too late.
Two years is way too short a time frame on fertility. What impact is the spike having on female embryos in “vaccinated” mothers? That’s 20 – 30 years down the line. Remember we people of femininity are born with all our eggs.
Might it have a bigger impact on the fertility of children than adults, with their developing reproductive systems, again, especially girls? Similar time frame.
We don’t know.
Surely we should know.
People will be making a choice they don’t realise, the risk of some not ever being grandparents against massive inconvenience taking a summer holiday flight.