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Dec 2 • 33 tweets • 11 min read
So the @ChtyCommission has launched a statutory inquiry into Mermaids.

A thread of some of the things it may consider.
Will it start with how they hired as CEO a mother who took her son to be castrated in Thailand at the age of 16 because his dad didn't approve of having an effeminate little boy?

ted.com/talks/susie_gr…
And how it encouraged other parents to undertake such medical tourism users.ox.ac.uk/~sfos0060/Bigg…
Will it look at Mermaids relationship with the Tavistock Clinic, as raised by Sonia Appleby, David Bell, Marcus Bell and the other whistleblowers?

theguardian.com/society/2021/m…

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6149eb48…
And presented in parliamentary evidence

data.parliament.uk/writtenevidenc…
And open letters medium.com/@kirstyentwist…
Will it look at Mermaids' involvement in the case where a 7-year-old child was removed from the custody of his mother after the court found that the child had been essentially groomed into a transgender identity 4thwavenow.com/tag/transgende…
Will it look at Mermaids relationship with GenderGP and Helen Webberley?
Will it look at the data breach where they allowed
780 pages of confidential emails to be viewable online for nearly three years. This led to personal information, such as names and email addresses, of 550 people being searchable online.

ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/…
And then the difference between what they told the public and the families affected?

Will it look at the difference between what it told the National Lottery about not lobbying to medicalise children and what it did in practice?

Will it look at the things it told the National Lottery it would do, and whether it did them?

Will it look at its relationship with the EHRC ? And how it promoted the suicide narrative and extreme social transition?

equalityhumanrights.com/en/our-work/ne…
And then told families and schools to ignore the EHRC when recognised that single sex spaces are lawful and legitimate?

mermaidsuk.org.uk/news/single-se…
Will it look at their views on the protected characteristic of belief and whether people with gender critical beliefs should be protected against belief discrimination consortium.lgbt/ehrc-open-lett…
And how it pressured Hodder Law to remove coverage of the Harry Miller case from an A level text book?

thebookseller.com/news/hodders-e…
Will it listen to the Mermaids' podcasts?

mumsnet.com/talk/womens_ri…
Will it look at went on on Mermaids' online forums?

thetimes.co.uk/article/trans-…
Will it look at giving breast binders to children behind parents backs?
telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09/2…
Will it look at Mermaids' disturbing adult fundraising events ?
Will it look at its BDSM drag queen calendar fundraiser?

facebook.com/haydnbphotogra…
Will it look at its "they are attacking us" fundraiser?
Will it look at this - with Starbucks?
Will it look at the whole Darren Mew affair?

mforstater.medium.com/why-my-twitter…
Will it look at the whole Jacob Breslow affair?
Will it look at its involvement int getting a conference involving Helen Joyce and Stephanie Davies Arai cancelled at Great Ormond St ?

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
Will it look at the safeguarding decisions that went into this partnership?
And this one?
Will it consider the decision-making that went into bringing a case against the charity commission over LGB Alliance?

goodlawproject.org/case/lgba/
Will it consider reporting of Caroline Farrow and Kellie-Jay Keen to the police?

faircop.org.uk/case-studies/k…

news.sky.com/story/woman-to…
Will they listen to the recording of their schools training?

mumsnet.com/talk/womens_ri…

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