'Binding: used by some (but not all) trans masculine people to compress their chests and create a more conventionally masculine shape. Mermaids have a binder service available through our helpline. Mermaids advocates people to bind safely at all times, see THIS video from PinkNews for more information.'
B for Blockers and on 5th October 2022 this is still on the Mermaids website:
'Blockers, hormone blockers or puberty blockers: a type of medication which temporarily stops the production of the natural hormones which progress puberty. They are considered by the NHS Gender Identity Development Service and a body of international research to be a physically reversible intervention: if the young person stops taking the blocker their body will begin developing as it would have done without medical intervention.'
There's no G for Gay (not defined) but there is G for:
'Gender Identity Clinics, or GIC: NHS clinics that provide support around gender identity to people over 18. (People may be referred from the age of 17.) They are able to provide speech and language therapy, counselling and hormones. They will also make referrals for some affirmative surgeries.'
'Gender Identity Development Service, or GIDS: also known as The Tavistock: NHS service in England and Wales that provides support around gender identity for people under 18. Run by psychotherapists, they explore a young person’s gender, offer support for emotional and relationship difficulties and may refer young people on for affirmative healthcare. It is also referred to as ‘the Tavistock’ as the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust are the providers of GIDS.'
That's a tad obvious. What an omission. The word gay really is seen as 'transphobic' now isn't it. They twist and destroy everything they touch. How can those involved in current, ongoing and upcoming court cases not see that. Rights are mutually exclusive - a right to call yourself gay must exist and be protected and is under attack.
Gay means trans, lesbian means trans, bi means trans and trans means trans. Glad we cleared all that up.
In the comments...a young woman who wears a binder not because she is trans or NB but because she likes to go out walking at night and wants to appear male for safety. .jeez!!😳🙄. I wonder how many of those young women, in the comments, are now under the knife losing themselves to this Woowoo Cult..😟
It's a modern day chastity belt isn't it? The only way to keep safe is to literally lock yourself up and away. To deform yourself. And young women are coming to these twisted conclusions through relentless propaganda as their only option. **** this enrages me. Maybe the men should be hobbled for our safety too.
Clive and Dennis highlighted the view on the Queen's Speech podcast that some gay trans men i.e. straight women may identify as such because they feel as though gay men are safer than straight men.
I read that a lot of trans-identified women ("trans men") don't like to be called "men." They want to be called "trans guy" or just "guy" or "dude" or something else.
Yep, just like the Primark incident, stay away for your own safety, don't leave home, be with someone (preferably a man?🙄) ...remind anyone else of countries elsewhere in the world!! The young fully indoctrinated and with their brain cells neutralised!!
I am sick of being cowed and that others feel they must cower for their own safety. Medieval arses forcing this on all of us. And yet other young women are bravely marching and two fingers up to their abusive 'leaders'. If you haven't seen the videos of women cutting their hair in solidarity, seek them out. The ones where you can hear the scissors make a specifically squeaky shearing sound though clumps of hair are particularly striking.
Out of interest do people have particular famous individuals that have endorsed gender identity ideology, they are more angry with than others for some reason? For example I'll never forgive Emma Watson or Matt Lucas. Ever.
Holly Willoughby, Philip Schofield, Lorraine Kelly and Carol Vorderman. For legitimising the concept of "trans kids" in interviews with vulnerable children on daytime TV, gaslighting anyone who dared question it. PS once said there is still a great deal of "ignorance" when it comes to people understanding trans kids. Hard to understand something that has zero basis in reality and is based on regressive stereotypes. Their actions - and the actions of their producers - helped to bring the idea of the trans child into the mainstream. Apparently sitting on a pastel-coloured sofa with two so-called national treasures and a cityscape backdrop entirely cleanses an abhorrent idea.
Absolutely. Shiny morning TV and all those dire sessions with the vacuous yet aggressive Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford. Cutting KJK off whenever she spoke and twisting her words - no wonder she got so good at sticking to her points and communicating her message as they tried to trip her up. They should look to what happened to Jeremy Kyle and his fetid show. Parading people and their mental health issues. None of that was in the public interest, it was for entertainment to laugh at the horror show. It's like legacy TV trying to keep up with social media the only way they knew how.
Funnily, I'd thought about boycotting Starbucks when passing by one last night, but then I remembered that I hadn't been to Starbucks in 20 years because their coffee sucks.
Ahahaha! :o) I actually Looove Starbucks coffee but I got fed up with their rude customer service about 10 years or so ago and started to go to a pretty-good chain in the north-central US instead.
I may be overthinking this but what they call 'trans' thinking runs through everything and is how they see and experience the world. It's a cute Queer Theory bear of course! The image needed added glitter sparkle.
You must put your stamp and ownership on and make it 'yours' and 'original'. Continually add and makes this 'cuter'. You must make it individual. If it was added by their team, they like to tweak reality and it all merges in their swirl of 'representation'. They 'alter' everything, they modify and 'improve' everything and they cartoonify and stick avatars everywhere. The image is all. So 'improving' a photo with a 'cute' cartoon child's toy isn't surprising. They think it makes it 'more appealing'. Many designers now 'add' flourishes as they think it 'looks' better in their 'style'. It's like those who put 'tags' on any surface they can as a way to show how 'creative' they are. The line between facts, truth, lies and fantasy are all just 'opinion'.
See a child? See the plastic surgery you can do on them and their boundaries you can break. See a photo? Photoshop it to death and then add additional things that weren't there but you wish were there. Take a selfie? Filter it so it doesn't look like you at all. Middle-aged man online? Profile avatar of a teen girl with car ears. See reality? Twist it to how you 'identify'.
I hope we all don't get too excited about this negative focus on Mermaids. With how captured everyone is, they may survive it all and be fine afterwards. I'm not getting my hopes up.
Amazing!!! Omg so so so amazing. This must be the exact funding Graham was concerned about and tried to stop? I hope he can breathe another vindicated sigh of relief!
Apart from the fact that the National Lottery should NEVER have funded them, this is great news! Good find!! Do you think we are heading for a lot of "why did you believe it?" interviews on the TV? (television, hehe!) I'm not sure we're quite "there yet" in terms of debunking the trans child myth. What does everyone think?
Yeah, I don't think we're "there yet." There's still a lot of work to do. I don't even feel very hopeful about LGBA winning their case. I think they talked too much about subject matter that could easily be seen as political. In the US, our equivalent to a Charities Council would not like that.
Perhaps, but same sex attraction (not same 'gender' attraction) is a protected characteristic in the UK. If LGBA does lose, we can then all challenge the charitable status of Mermaids.
"Looking back 20 years you wouldn’t have something like that. Most trans people are scared of trying their name, like it’s frowned upon or you’ll get ‘found out’, so it’s really positive to know you can trial your name in that space and not be scared".
Ya, you're so right. A couple of decades ago, you wouldn't have used Starbucks to try out your 'new' name with an affirming coffee cup and a Mermaid cookie, because twenty years ago 'trans' youth were as rare as, um, Mermaid cookies.
Graham, this is one of those moments where I wish you'd just made this up. I know you didn't. I just wish.
It's rather painful to see that Mermaids - and many others - openly push the sexualisation of children and to know we are all supposed to be as enthusiastic about it as they are. And everyone who does anything about it is clubbed down publicly.
We are asked to suppress any instinct, any natural perception, any lesson the many pedophilia scandals in the oast decades have taught us, all in the name of a supposedly marginalized group. As if that weren't enough, they shove it right in our faces every chance they get.
I haven't the faintest idea how that is supposed to help the very people Mermaids and others claim to represent, I just see how it hurts and endangers many people and threatens to hurt and endanger even more.
Talk about In Plain Sight. They are so up their own a**** they have no qualms about operating so blatantly. They are by the sounds of things a bunch of misfit munchusen by proxy mothers and pedophile/fetishtic men. They are a grooming gang with charitable status. I really don't think I am particularly off-point with those comments. We need to make these individuals feel deep shame, bring back shame to those who corrupt our children instead of this unbelievable outspoken support and glory they get.
"The barista immediately used the right pronouns"? Why would a server need to use any pronouns when speaking to you? Also the piece is 2 years old now... I wonder what the update is on these kids?
Most people (who are sane and/or not porn addicts) look at that photo and think "That poor kid," but such is the power of Gender Ideology that most people (including Starbucks PR Dept) pretended they found that photo beautiful and inclusive and filled with so much love and unicorns. The more you loved that photo, the safer you were from the twitter lynch mob.
In light of recent news (paedo Trustee) and the upcoming Charity Commission investigation (and the 1000 families suing the Tavistock) it'll be interesting to see how many will still be pretending they're "feeling the love" for what is basically a really creepy guy siting on a bed with a kid.
I’m not a big compensation culture fan but I suspect the inevitable development of a No Win, No Fee system for Mermaids /GIDS victims will be the tipping point for the trans capture culture. So come on grasping lawyers. Do your stuff!! I’d call my Mermaids victim service Harpoon Legal. ‘Cos I can.
Someone should remind Starbucks’ CEO (and founder) of what he’s supporting - @howardSchultz on Twitter (suspect s’bux’s main account is run by TRAs - better to go straight to the top).
IMPORTANT: Binder is defined at
https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/glossary/ and highlights the availability of binders from Mermaids - A VIDEO FROM PINK NEWS ON BINDERS IS LINKED!
'Binding: used by some (but not all) trans masculine people to compress their chests and create a more conventionally masculine shape. Mermaids have a binder service available through our helpline. Mermaids advocates people to bind safely at all times, see THIS video from PinkNews for more information.'
Linked video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CEflm8xhzBU
B for Blockers and on 5th October 2022 this is still on the Mermaids website:
'Blockers, hormone blockers or puberty blockers: a type of medication which temporarily stops the production of the natural hormones which progress puberty. They are considered by the NHS Gender Identity Development Service and a body of international research to be a physically reversible intervention: if the young person stops taking the blocker their body will begin developing as it would have done without medical intervention.'
Telling outright lies about healthcare? Lots of people are about to get a serious shock in the coming weeks and months!
There's no G for Gay (not defined) but there is G for:
'Gender Identity Clinics, or GIC: NHS clinics that provide support around gender identity to people over 18. (People may be referred from the age of 17.) They are able to provide speech and language therapy, counselling and hormones. They will also make referrals for some affirmative surgeries.'
'Gender Identity Development Service, or GIDS: also known as The Tavistock: NHS service in England and Wales that provides support around gender identity for people under 18. Run by psychotherapists, they explore a young person’s gender, offer support for emotional and relationship difficulties and may refer young people on for affirmative healthcare. It is also referred to as ‘the Tavistock’ as the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust are the providers of GIDS.'
That's a tad obvious. What an omission. The word gay really is seen as 'transphobic' now isn't it. They twist and destroy everything they touch. How can those involved in current, ongoing and upcoming court cases not see that. Rights are mutually exclusive - a right to call yourself gay must exist and be protected and is under attack.
Gay means trans, lesbian means trans, bi means trans and trans means trans. Glad we cleared all that up.
No G for gay ? What a glaring omission .
No G for gay ? What a glaring omission .
In the comments...a young woman who wears a binder not because she is trans or NB but because she likes to go out walking at night and wants to appear male for safety. .jeez!!😳🙄. I wonder how many of those young women, in the comments, are now under the knife losing themselves to this Woowoo Cult..😟
It's a modern day chastity belt isn't it? The only way to keep safe is to literally lock yourself up and away. To deform yourself. And young women are coming to these twisted conclusions through relentless propaganda as their only option. **** this enrages me. Maybe the men should be hobbled for our safety too.
Clive and Dennis highlighted the view on the Queen's Speech podcast that some gay trans men i.e. straight women may identify as such because they feel as though gay men are safer than straight men.
I read that a lot of trans-identified women ("trans men") don't like to be called "men." They want to be called "trans guy" or just "guy" or "dude" or something else.
Well they need to get used to being called women.
And they cleared that one up, didn't they? All this ignorant LARPing as some exotic other you are clueless about. Grr.
The gay men who like gay men (doh) are supposed to happily smile along with those confused straight women trying them out for size.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bTrrADvaVcY
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8t0-aWW9DX8
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TQAHUwep7GM
Yep, just like the Primark incident, stay away for your own safety, don't leave home, be with someone (preferably a man?🙄) ...remind anyone else of countries elsewhere in the world!! The young fully indoctrinated and with their brain cells neutralised!!
I am sick of being cowed and that others feel they must cower for their own safety. Medieval arses forcing this on all of us. And yet other young women are bravely marching and two fingers up to their abusive 'leaders'. If you haven't seen the videos of women cutting their hair in solidarity, seek them out. The ones where you can hear the scissors make a specifically squeaky shearing sound though clumps of hair are particularly striking.
Out of interest do people have particular famous individuals that have endorsed gender identity ideology, they are more angry with than others for some reason? For example I'll never forgive Emma Watson or Matt Lucas. Ever.
Holly Willoughby, Philip Schofield, Lorraine Kelly and Carol Vorderman. For legitimising the concept of "trans kids" in interviews with vulnerable children on daytime TV, gaslighting anyone who dared question it. PS once said there is still a great deal of "ignorance" when it comes to people understanding trans kids. Hard to understand something that has zero basis in reality and is based on regressive stereotypes. Their actions - and the actions of their producers - helped to bring the idea of the trans child into the mainstream. Apparently sitting on a pastel-coloured sofa with two so-called national treasures and a cityscape backdrop entirely cleanses an abhorrent idea.
Absolutely. Shiny morning TV and all those dire sessions with the vacuous yet aggressive Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford. Cutting KJK off whenever she spoke and twisting her words - no wonder she got so good at sticking to her points and communicating her message as they tried to trip her up. They should look to what happened to Jeremy Kyle and his fetid show. Parading people and their mental health issues. None of that was in the public interest, it was for entertainment to laugh at the horror show. It's like legacy TV trying to keep up with social media the only way they knew how.
I'm genuinely not joking, but when I see TV lately, I think transvestite before television. 😄🙈💅
Haaaaa. What about the name Tim?
Whenever I see a small TIM, I'm going to think of A Christmas Carol. 😄
Hopefully Tiny Tim will go one round with Tiny Owen Jones and I know who my money's on.
Well said. I know the interview you mean with KJK and India W.
Ruth L: "How does it affect you?" (IW's choice to "identify" as a woman).
I mean, how long had they got!?
Inappropriate, antagonistic, crowd-pleasing and yet dangerous garbage
This Morning 'trans kids' videos are still up on YouTube - get those receipts people?
Remind me never to give any business to Starbucks until they massively fund psychotherapeutic help for all the future de-transitioners.
#NoBucksForStarbucks
Good one!
You know it's us who are going to have to pick up the pieces.
Reminding you to tell Starbucks you do that.
Funnily, I'd thought about boycotting Starbucks when passing by one last night, but then I remembered that I hadn't been to Starbucks in 20 years because their coffee sucks.
Ahahaha! :o) I actually Looove Starbucks coffee but I got fed up with their rude customer service about 10 years or so ago and started to go to a pretty-good chain in the north-central US instead.
HA HA yes their coffee is horrible! No problem boycotting them. Its when John Lewis start peddling in gender ideology bs that my heart sinks.
Personally I'd prefer them closed down immediately.
Starbucks? Yeah, me too.
@Graham Linehan (& everyone) - zoom into the top left of the image. That's an animated bear right? It's not a physical item. Why is it there?
I may be overthinking this but what they call 'trans' thinking runs through everything and is how they see and experience the world. It's a cute Queer Theory bear of course! The image needed added glitter sparkle.
You must put your stamp and ownership on and make it 'yours' and 'original'. Continually add and makes this 'cuter'. You must make it individual. If it was added by their team, they like to tweak reality and it all merges in their swirl of 'representation'. They 'alter' everything, they modify and 'improve' everything and they cartoonify and stick avatars everywhere. The image is all. So 'improving' a photo with a 'cute' cartoon child's toy isn't surprising. They think it makes it 'more appealing'. Many designers now 'add' flourishes as they think it 'looks' better in their 'style'. It's like those who put 'tags' on any surface they can as a way to show how 'creative' they are. The line between facts, truth, lies and fantasy are all just 'opinion'.
See a child? See the plastic surgery you can do on them and their boundaries you can break. See a photo? Photoshop it to death and then add additional things that weren't there but you wish were there. Take a selfie? Filter it so it doesn't look like you at all. Middle-aged man online? Profile avatar of a teen girl with car ears. See reality? Twist it to how you 'identify'.
Hbomberguy - Are you going to raise money for Mermaids after this attack from bigoted terf The National Lottery?
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c959a286-44e4-11ed-8885-043c27446b97?shareToken=18f76cf2fe0e2992fddfd0fb564cad61
Lottery pauses grant money to Mermaids
I hope we all don't get too excited about this negative focus on Mermaids. With how captured everyone is, they may survive it all and be fine afterwards. I'm not getting my hopes up.
Amazing!!! Omg so so so amazing. This must be the exact funding Graham was concerned about and tried to stop? I hope he can breathe another vindicated sigh of relief!
Remember Robert Webb criticised them!? They put him back in his box. Bet he's cheered up in the past week!
I wonder if they received any of it to date?
Apart from the fact that the National Lottery should NEVER have funded them, this is great news! Good find!! Do you think we are heading for a lot of "why did you believe it?" interviews on the TV? (television, hehe!) I'm not sure we're quite "there yet" in terms of debunking the trans child myth. What does everyone think?
A long way to go but this is the end for Mermaids.
Yeah, I don't think we're "there yet." There's still a lot of work to do. I don't even feel very hopeful about LGBA winning their case. I think they talked too much about subject matter that could easily be seen as political. In the US, our equivalent to a Charities Council would not like that.
Perhaps, but same sex attraction (not same 'gender' attraction) is a protected characteristic in the UK. If LGBA does lose, we can then all challenge the charitable status of Mermaids.
Oh! Good deal!
Great news thanks for the link.
"Looking back 20 years you wouldn’t have something like that. Most trans people are scared of trying their name, like it’s frowned upon or you’ll get ‘found out’, so it’s really positive to know you can trial your name in that space and not be scared".
Ya, you're so right. A couple of decades ago, you wouldn't have used Starbucks to try out your 'new' name with an affirming coffee cup and a Mermaid cookie, because twenty years ago 'trans' youth were as rare as, um, Mermaid cookies.
Or as rare as mermaids.
This is purely and obviously a clever marketing wheeze for a corporation so they sell more stuff. Doesn't Starbucks famously mangle names anyway?
Ffs
Just a glimpse was too much for me... Jesus H.
Jesus died on a giant t. ✝️😄
Me too. I had to close it within about 10 seconds.
Graham, this is one of those moments where I wish you'd just made this up. I know you didn't. I just wish.
It's rather painful to see that Mermaids - and many others - openly push the sexualisation of children and to know we are all supposed to be as enthusiastic about it as they are. And everyone who does anything about it is clubbed down publicly.
We are asked to suppress any instinct, any natural perception, any lesson the many pedophilia scandals in the oast decades have taught us, all in the name of a supposedly marginalized group. As if that weren't enough, they shove it right in our faces every chance they get.
I haven't the faintest idea how that is supposed to help the very people Mermaids and others claim to represent, I just see how it hurts and endangers many people and threatens to hurt and endanger even more.
Talk about In Plain Sight. They are so up their own a**** they have no qualms about operating so blatantly. They are by the sounds of things a bunch of misfit munchusen by proxy mothers and pedophile/fetishtic men. They are a grooming gang with charitable status. I really don't think I am particularly off-point with those comments. We need to make these individuals feel deep shame, bring back shame to those who corrupt our children instead of this unbelievable outspoken support and glory they get.
"The barista immediately used the right pronouns"? Why would a server need to use any pronouns when speaking to you? Also the piece is 2 years old now... I wonder what the update is on these kids?
Most people (who are sane and/or not porn addicts) look at that photo and think "That poor kid," but such is the power of Gender Ideology that most people (including Starbucks PR Dept) pretended they found that photo beautiful and inclusive and filled with so much love and unicorns. The more you loved that photo, the safer you were from the twitter lynch mob.
In light of recent news (paedo Trustee) and the upcoming Charity Commission investigation (and the 1000 families suing the Tavistock) it'll be interesting to see how many will still be pretending they're "feeling the love" for what is basically a really creepy guy siting on a bed with a kid.
I’m not a big compensation culture fan but I suspect the inevitable development of a No Win, No Fee system for Mermaids /GIDS victims will be the tipping point for the trans capture culture. So come on grasping lawyers. Do your stuff!! I’d call my Mermaids victim service Harpoon Legal. ‘Cos I can.
Especially when we can also Harpoon rich celebrity enabler clots as well.
It’s a Starbucks’ ad masquerading and inspo-info
Someone should remind Starbucks’ CEO (and founder) of what he’s supporting - @howardSchultz on Twitter (suspect s’bux’s main account is run by TRAs - better to go straight to the top).