Mermaids Trans Youth Charity Breaches Privacy Safeguarding & Receives Internal Criticism

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The London Times has published a story about a privacy breach committed by Mermaids, a trans support group, who receives public funds from the UK government. Mermaids promotes the gender dysphoria affirmative model for children and parents.

The article is titled “Parents’ anger as child sex change charity Mermaids puts private emails online.”

Many emails were put online where they could be seen by the public:

More than 1,000 pages of Mermaids’ confidential emails, including anguished messages from parents about their children’s suffering, were uploaded for anyone to view.

The charity has received some criticism in the released private emails:

Alongside the client emails were hundreds of revealing internal ones showing trustees’ concerns about Green’s leadership, accusations from parents that Mermaids felt like a “cult” and alcohol problems at residential weekends putting children “at risk”.

The charity has received some criticism from a Tavistock (from a trans youth clinic) clinician in the UK:

A Tavistock clinician said: “Mermaids push simplistic views, emotional blackmail and conscious misinformation at parents. They do so much harm.”

Susie Green is cooperating but also blaming some criticism on transphobia.