The dog ate them
The NHS Tavistock gender clinic has been threatened with court action by the information regulator after failing to reveal its relationship with Mermaids.
The Trust claimed in response to Freedom of Information requests from a parent that it “does not hold” emails or minutes of meetings between staff and the controversial charity, which has been accused of putting pressure on staff to transition children.
The matter was referred to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) which has now ruled that “on the balance of probabilities”, the Trust does have relevant emails.
Well that’s a good look. It seems the Tavistock is not just refusing to hand over requested information, but also lying about it. Gender ideology is not good for the morals.
The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust has until the end of this week to conduct fresh searches and provide a new response or the ICO could write to the High Court and the issue “may be dealt with as a contempt of court”. If found guilty of contempt the Trust could face a fine.
And, one would hope, yet more damage to its reputation.
The trans clinic is due to close after concerns were raised about its treatment and an independent review found that it was “not a safe and viable option”.
It has since emerged that staff from the controversial clinic will be involved in setting up and training staff at the new regional centres which will replace it. The Tavistock was originally ordered to close this spring but is still operating.
Jeezus. “We’re shutting you down because you are fanatics bent on destroying children’s futures; please train your replacements.”
Mermaids’ influence on the Tavistock was cited by some whistleblowers as one of the reasons why it lost its way, with claims that activists put pressure on clinicians to affirm children’s belief that they were trans and to prescribe potentially life-altering drugs.
If only Mermaids had instead named itself Goblins or Child-eating Dragons.
The FOI request asked for details of emails sent between Ms Green and Trust staff and records, notes, or minutes of any meetings with the charity boss between 2014 and 2018.
The Tavistock originally refused to provide the information under a section of the law which allows them to deny “requests which have the potential to cause a disproportionate or unjustified level of disruption, irritation or distress”.
But when the ICO asked them to justify that refusal, the Trust withdrew it and said instead that following “an extensive search of emails … the Trust does not hold the requested information”.
Jeeeeeeeeeeeezus. How do they get away with this crap??
“We don’t want to give you these emails, you won’t like them.”
“You have to.”
“We can’t find them!”
Very convincing.
It is not the first time issues with the Tavistock’s FOI responses have been raised, and in 2021 the Board of Directors was told that all requests relating to the gender identity clinics for both adults and children were being “hampered”.
Communications staff had to clear all requests and they had “not approved GIC responses with waiting list data due to poor performance and the potential reputational impact”, meeting minutes show.
A spokesman for the Trust said: “We have noted the ICO’s recent decision and are proactively working toward supplying the relevant data before the deadline.”
Why weren’t they “proactively working toward” doing that already? What do they mean “proactively”? What do they mean “working toward”?
The cultish dynamics of Scientology, the apocalyptic zeal of fundamentalist Christianity, the medical ethics of Mengele, and the institutional saturation of a Soviet puppet regime. It is astonishing how rapidly and how deeply this nonsense has spread over social media, and how far our society has fallen that people who think of themselves as reasonable and good have let themselves be coopted by a cult of child-mutilating narcissists.
I am also, and not for the first time, reminded of US President Franlin D. Roosevelt’s address to Congress in early January 1939, as the world had already slipped off the precipice and was sliding headlong into the inevitable furnace of the Second World War but had not yet reached the flames. Amidst Roosevelt’s politicking for the New Deal, he said something rather arresting and remarkable about the difference between the open societies of the still-unnamed United Nations Alliance and the dictatorships of the Tripartite Pact and the Comintern.
Now, it is not yet so advanced that there are literal concentration or reeducation camps for people who do not subscribe to gender ideology, but can anyone honestly even pretend that we have the uncontested right to say what we please? That we aren’t having a rainbow religion imposed upon us from all corners (including, increasingly, literal churches)? That we can walk down the street wearing, or accompanying someone wearing, a T-Shirt or badge with “Woman: (n) Adult human female” on it, and not fear a self-appointed fascist goon squad? That our children are (still) being brought up as free and dignified human beings, and not being molded by a cult of blue-haired weirdos openly bragging about turning them into pawns to be molded and enslaved by their rainbow-coloured machine?
And, above all, does it feel like you are still allowed to do your own thinking?
The genderists tell us that our words are actual violence and that when we speak honestly and openly we are plotting genocide against them but the holocaust of breasts that Tavistock and it’s ilk have perpetrated and continue to perpetrate across the world is genuine actual violence and a literal holocaust – healthy body parts cut off and turned into burnt sacrifices to an evil god. I have no more words.