"We never said 'born in the wrong body'"
Thanks to Gill R for this. Don't let them get away with it.
You almost have to admire the chutzpah of those saying "Well OF COURSE we never said people are "born in the wrong body".
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The Independent, reporting on a Channel 4 programme
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Hours after Gill published that and everyone started RTing it, Mermaids put up a new PR page on their site with a new party line: "OK, of course we USED to say it, but our language has evolved and now it's wrong and hurtful and no one should say it any more (except for trans ppl, it's still apparently ok if they want to say it)." https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/news/do-you-still-use-the-phrase-born-in-the-wrong-body/
It's dizzying trying to keep up with how fast they're spinning. They seem frantic at this point.
They now seem to be going with, “well yes we *said* that people can be born in the wrong body, but we didn’t mean it literally, it was just a way for people to understand how trans people feel.” The problem with that is, kids don’t look for whether what they’re being told is literal or metaphorical, and people said these words to kids (and their parents), knowing they would be taken as fact, which is disgraceful. I feel for parents who took their kids as young as 3 to Mermaids and believed them when they told them they’d been born wrong, thinking they were doing the right thing for their kid. Watching this back peddling from them must be hard for them. Mermaids and the like have so much explaining to do.