Thread by @TwisterFilm

🧵1./ Who's Crying Now?
2 years ago my friend Kate Harris teared up during a case brought by trans charity Mermaids. Today, it's Mermaids being investigated. For safeguarding failures like telling children to lie to their parents. There was also its paedophilia problem.
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2./ Mermaids had to fire one of its trustees when it emerged he'd attended a pro-paedophilia conference where he compared having sex with a child to ejaculating on a shoe. He also wrote of being sexually excited by watching a 12 year old dancing. Sounds perfect for Mermaids.

3./ Mermaids then had to fire a senior staff member when explicit pictures emerged of him dressed as a schoolgirl and showing off his erect penis. He was in charge of digital engagement for the charity. He also identified as they/them. Of course he did.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

4./ CEO Susie Green then resigned. Perhaps because she kept lying. She claimed Mermaids wasn't a health charity yet she helped draft guidelines for WPATH, a trans health group. She also referred kids to an NHS gender clinic against the advice of doctors.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

5./ Green also urged two dodgy doctors to set up Gender GP, a private clinic that continually broke the law by prescribing sterilising drugs to children and young people. She then referred kids to them. When she resigned from Mermaids she joined Gender GP.
gendergp.com/susie-green-jo…

6./ One founder of Gender GP was struck off for medical negligence. The other had her license revoked. Green though didn't think they pushed puberty blockers carelessly or eagerly enough and so set up her own even dodgier clinic to get round an NHS ban.
inews.co.uk/news/mermaids-…

7./ What of Jolyon Maugham who helped finance the Mermaids case? He recently drew attention to his own lunacy when he claimed Wes Streeting had caused an epidemic of suicxdes among "trans kids"; a claim dismissed as garbage by the NHS's suicxde expert.
theguardian.com/society/articl…

8./ As for Maugham's legal practice which tried to get LGB Alliance's charity status revoked, it has itself now said sayonara. It closed having run out of deluded idiots willing to have their pockets picked. Maugham was last seen barking at the moon and threatening to sue it.

9./ Mermaids' slimiest witness John Nicolson has also fallen from grace. His slug features proved mysteriously unenticing to his constituents and he lost his well-padded seat. As a Scottish nationalist he will refuse to take his Westmonster pension. Of course the hypocrite won't.

10./ The last 2 years have been tough for some of Mermaids' most vocal supporters too. Stephen Ireland from Pride Surrey didn't just cheer on their case he organised a petition calling on LGB Alliance to be criminalised and picketed its conference. Guess what happened next...

11./ In a twist absolutely nobody could have predicted Stephen Ireland is currently in custody, awaiting trial on 37 charges of child sex abuse. Who on earth will Surrey's cops get to cruise around in their rainbow painted car in the meantime? Or go with them into schools? 🤷

12./ Another vocal supporter of Mermaids in the run up to the trial was Anthony Watson. His company, Bank Of London, awarded Mermaids its Charity of the Year award in 2022. Two weeks ago Watson had to resign after HMRC served a writ on his bank for failing to pay its taxes.

13./ LGBT Youth Scotland who used to have a paedophile as their CEO was criticised for continuing to recommend Mermaids while it was under investigation. They're a tad busy right now fending off criticism they allowed yet another paedophile access to vulnerable children.

14./ My brave friends and colleagues at @AllianceLGB remain determined to salvage the reputation of our lesbian and gay rights movement. Kate Harris, @BevJacksonAuth, Eileen Gallagher, @KateBMwriting, @BluskyeAllison and the many volunteers who cannot yet be named, I salute you.