Thread by @fairplaywomen

Mermaid's associate Helen Islan (mimmymum) is smearing Fair Play For Women again. This time accusing Nic Williams of profiting from 'transphobia' and stoking a 'transphobic frenzy' /1

The irony here is off the scale. "It pays her bills"

The truth is Nic Williams has worked for 3 years full-time for FREE on our campaigns to defend sex-based rights. This has been her job for 3 yrs with NO PAY when she could have been earning a top-level salary elsewhere /2

This is not sustainable. So after getting a full-time director for free for 3 years it is now time for us to pay a small directors salary or lose her. No one can work for free indefinitely. /3

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Thanks to the generous support of 1000+ donations we now have enough to cover our running costs for the next 12 months. But it is vital we push onto our stretch target of £60K in this last week to secure our long-term future. There is lots still to do /4

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While women work to defend the rights of other women and girls on a shoe-string, relying on good will and donations from other women, the likes of Mermaids are awash with money. How dare they smear us. /5

Mermaids associate Helen Islan accuses us of being invested in a 'transphobic frenzy' while they pay out almost a quarter million on staff alone. /6

In this years World Rugby policy review meeting Gendered Intelligence was there arguing that trans inclusion was more important than the safety of women and girls. We were there arguing the opposite. We hold our own alongside giants with funds in the hundreds of thousands. /7

And Stonewall - the mightiest of them all - with a whopping income of £8 million. Getting hundreds of thousands from the likes of Comic relief, National Lottery & government itself. With a team of staff drawing massive professional salaries. This is who we stand up against /8

Have no doubt this is an almighty David & Goliath fight. They have used their millions to ensure policy capture across the board. It is now up to ordinary women like us to reverse this. We are moving mountains against the odds but we need your help /9

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Our crowdfunder is a drop in the ocean compared to the £ millions sloshing around enabling the trans pressure groups to erase women and girls. The bare-faced cheek of them to attack us and Nic Williams over money! /10

She was one of the first women to dare to show her name and face in public. She's had her reputation forever smeared, including accusations printed in national newspapers that she is as bad as the KKK /11

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She regularly receives abusive and threatening emails for the work she does to defend women and girls. /12

Despite all this we persisted. In 3 years we have built a professional, reliable & trustworthy source of well-informed, considered & responsible output that is now consulted regularly by UK and international policy-makers, academics and many others /13

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Thank you to everyone who is standing by us. Your comments on the crowdfunder are spurring us on! ❤️

"Loving your work. Keep it up. You can thank mimmymum for bringing your crowdfunder to my attention"

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And another great comment left for us!😂🥰

"Good Luck, Nic. Thanks to mimmymum for yet further encouragement. She has been immense in this fight in peaking ordinary people".

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Thanks Roger! (and mimmymum!)

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Thanks Elizabeth!

"Been meaning to do this for ages, 'thanks' to mimmymum for reinforcing the need!"

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Thanks Helen!

"This is such an important cause to protect the rights of women and girls. 'Thanks' to Mimmymum, your rude and libelous comment brought this case to my attention."

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Thanks Liz!

“Thanks for the reminder mimmymum. Nic Williams deserves a knighthood, yes a knighthood for all the work she is doing FOR FREE for women. You might be glad of it yourself one day”

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Thanks Mimmymum!