This needs posting again for you jerks and liars:-
https://thecritic.co.uk/gender-sirens/[color=#ff00ff][font=Comic Sans MS]"It was entirely predictable that the adults would hide behind the children. As soon as it became clear that Mermaids — the charity that claims to support “gender-diverse youth” — would at last be subject to some degree of formal scrutiny, out came the familiar hashtag: #ProtectTransKids.
Following reports that Mermaids has been sending breast binders to children, helping 16-year-olds to change their names without their parents’ knowledge, and directing chatroom users to unregulated spaces, the Charity Commission has opened a regulatory compliance case into the organisation.
You will note that the people being investigated here are not children themselves. Being desperately unhappy with your body and confused about your identity are not crimes, whereas exploiting vulnerable young people who feel this way really ought to be.
Nonetheless, Mermaids and its supporters — including Stonewall CEO Nancy Kelly — have chosen to misrepresent the situation in the same way they always do. It’s not them, the adults, who are being asked to justify their actions. Oh, no, kids — it’s you who are under attack.
In a statement released this week Susie Green’s charity declared itself to be the victim of “a targeted, cynical attack” by “those with an anti-trans agenda”. Meanwhile Kelly has shared a TED talk in which she asks “how can a trans child need less protection than a cis child? How can a trans child need less protection than a cis adult?”
I don’t know, Nancy, but given the cavalier attitude to safeguarding shown by adults declaring themselves trans allies, I quite agree that these children have been badly let down. Then again, I know that’s not what you mean. What you and others are suggesting is that unless Mermaids and fellow organisations such as Gendered Intelligence are permitted to proceed as they see fit, minus any oversight whatsoever, trans children are being made unsafe. You might think of this as covering your own backs. I think of it as terrorising vulnerable children for political gain.
It’s a tactic familiar to anyone who has studied domestic abuse and coercive control. Make the people whose unquestioning compliance you seek — in this case, unhappy children — believe that the rest of the world is a greater threat to them than anything you could do. Convince them you are keeping them safe. Make them think that without you, they’d die.
The adults who claim to champion the cause of “trans kids” have taken this approach to extremes. The world is “trans-hostile”; young people are being threatened with “conversion abuse”; the treatments Mermaids promote are “life-saving”. This sits alongside broader messaging which suggests anyone critical of, say, puberty blockers or breast-binding is supportive of “trans genocide”.
Young people are told they are surrounded by adults who want them dead — if not by killing them outright, then by denying them the treatment they need to survive. Feminists want them dead. Their parents want them dead. Hell, even their favourite author wants them dead. This inflicts terror on children at one of the most turbulent stages of their lives.
This alone would be bad enough, but Mermaids takes it further. What’s next, once you’ve convinced a distressed child that everyone in the world is against them except you? You take away their last scrap of self-reliance. Persuade them their own body is out to harm them, with puberty lying in wait to ruin everything. Make them believe that the trauma and disorientation that is a familiar part of this particular life stage is proof that they need fixing, and fast. Anyone standing in the way of this is, of course, the enemy.
If you’ve destroyed young people’s trust in other people and their own bodies, what can there be left? Only their minds. Here, Mermaids encourages its young devotees to believe that if they are not careful — and if they are not sufficiently protected from the twin enemies of their growing bodies and Mermaids’ political opponents — they will kill themselves. It is this exploitation of the suicide narrative that I find most unforgiveable of all. No one can claim ignorance as to the dangers of this, yet Mermaids and its cheerleaders routinely add “suicidal ideation” into the symptom pool of what it means to be “truly” trans. In doing so it is they, not anyone else, who are putting children’s lives at risk.
I cannot imagine how terrifying life must be for a child immersed in Mermaid’s exploitative fictions. Like many adults who spent years despising their developing bodies, I do find it easy to see how one might get drawn in. Like all those who practice emotional manipulation, the adults who run Mermaids base their lies on grains of truth.
There is plenty of misogyny and homophobia in the world. Certain people do believe if you are a gender non-conforming child, there is something wrong with you (although contrary to the Mermaids line, these people tend not to be radical feminists and butch lesbians). Some of the children who turn to Mermaids will be genuine abuse victims, making them easy prey for the “I’m the only one who doesn’t want you dead” message."
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