Mermaids is doing what now?
— Women’s Rights Network- Greater Manchester (@WRN_Manchester) January 25, 2024
Dennis stepped in.
Mermaids are encouraging parents to bombard schools with a threatening legal letter which reads as though schools have a duty to facilitate social transition so I've done a template response any head teacher is free to use in reply. https://t.co/n5vS0qNy28
— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) January 25, 2024
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8 responses to “Dueling template letters”
Are Mermaids determined to give the investigators yet more material with which to condemn them? It is my understanding that, legally, a child cannot have the protected characteristic of ‘gender reassignment’ because they cannot, currently, have access to the treatment listed in the criteria to qualify. Only adults can.
Instructed by Mermaids. Solicitors were instructed, and the instructing was done by Mermaids. If they wanted to get the law correct, shouldn’t that arrangement be reversed?
The Our Duty group has a template letter for concerned parents to send to schools. From the reference to the Equality Act 2010 it evidently originated in the UK, but it could be adapted for other jurisdictions. The group (which I had not heard of before) is international.
The Countess, an Irish organisation, has on its website several opt-out letters that parents can send into schools.
The Safe Schools Alliance website has a page of letter templates covering a range of different purposes.
Holms,
I realize you may be aware of this and are just making a joke, but just in case: “instructed” is just a common term of art in this context. Clients give lawyers instructions on how to proceed (file that lawsuit, make that settlement offer, etc.) Lawyers give clients “advice” on what the law is.
But you’d think the lawyers would not put out a letter that makes them look like shitty advisors because of the letter’s apparent disregard for the law as it is, rather than as Mermaids’ wishes/pretends it is.
YNNB,
You might think that. I know too many lawyers to think that. You don’t know how many times I’ve had to resist the temptation to use the famous reply “I wanted to let you know that some asshole has been signing your name to stupid letters.”
Hahahahaha I love that.
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