Short thread 🧵on #Mermaids, Aimee Challenor & Green Party. In 2016, Challenor, then prominent in our party, organised an open letter to attack Daily Mail for running a story questioning role of Mermaids in a dispute between parents on social transitioning of their child.
Here's story from Oct 2016: Parents in bitter battle over their child's gender: Father brands controversial transgender charity as ‘meddlers’ in yet ANOTHER case of a mother dressing her son, five, as a girl dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3…
👉 Mother believes boy, five, should wear girl's uniform to school
👉 She was backed on issue by Mermaids who leant on school
👉 Father says his son has simply been confused by his mother dressing him
👉 five-year-old has been dressed as a girl since he was two by mother
👉 She was backed on issue by Mermaids who leant on school
👉 Father says his son has simply been confused by his mother dressing him
👉 five-year-old has been dressed as a girl since he was two by mother
Challenor lobbied hard within Green Party to coordinate open letter to "support Mermaids, condemn constant attacks on their reputation & condemn attempts to discredit & undermine their work, & call for Daily Mail to apologise." Still online 👇 docs.google.com/document/d/1EV…
Many members, officers & representatives of Green Party signed this open letter. I believe Challenor to have had devastating negative influence on our ability to think clearly on matters of policy & politics during her period of active engagement.
A culture embedded to this day.
A culture embedded to this day.
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