#Jacob Breslow

[aftonfamilyvalues]

Imagine being a radfem and having a male pedo as your namesake, oh wait you dont have too lmaoo

he literally isnt though... but hey, remember when dr jacob breslow from mermaids resigned after it came to light he spoke at a meeting for b4u-act, a pro pedophile group? or maybe when keffals was sending collars to minors on his catboy ranch discord and when he was flirting with minors on twitter? oh and there was also that one time sophie labelle who draws those assignedmale comics traced a photo of someones actual toddler in order to make furry diaper fetish art.

and dont forget jeffery marsh made a patreon specifically to talk to kids about gender and sexuality without their parents or anyone else knowing, encouraged these children to go no contact with their families saying he would be their family and when another woman on tiktok, nessa, pointed out how that behavior is a red flag for grooming she got doxxed, her car vandalized, and received many threats towards herself and her children.

[ukrfeminism]

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The Charity Commission has launched a statutory inquiry into the transgender charity Mermaids after identifying concerns about its management.

The regulator said the inquiry — its most serious form of investigation — was triggered by “newly identified issues” around the youth charity’s “governance and management”.

It had already announced a compliance case into Mermaids after safeguarding concerns but a statutory inquiry marks a significant ramping up of its examination of the charity. It will try to establish if there was any mismanagement or misconduct by trustees.

The commission said today that Mermaids’ response to the initial compliance case “has not provided the necessary reassurance or satisfied the commission at this stage”.

It added: “The regulator will seek to determine whether the charity’s governance is appropriate in relation to the activities the charity carries out, which involve vulnerable children and young people, as well as their families.”

Mermaids has come under intense public scrutiny and last month the chief executive, Susie Green, stood down after six years in charge.

The Times understands that Green’s departure was preceded by the commission of a third-party report into the charity by Mermaids.

Mermaids was approached for comment.

The statutory inquiry has powers to investigate whether a charity and its trustees have carried out their duties and responsibilities under charity law. It will look at the administration, governance and management of Mermaids by trustees, including its leadership and culture. It will examine whether “there has been any misconduct and/or mismanagement by the trustees”.

The investigator will also look at whether the trustees have complied with and fulfilled their duties and responsibilities as trustees under charity law and, in particular, whether they had “sufficient oversight of the charity’s activities and compliance with its policies and procedures and in line with its charitable objects”.

A trustee, Dr Jacob Breslow, resigned in October after The Times revealed he had spoken at a conference hosted by an organisation that promotes services to paedophiles.

A Daily Telegraph investigation also claimed that Mermaids offered to send breast binders to children against their parents’ wishes. It said that staff on the charity’s forum agreed to send a chest-flattening device to an unidentified adult posing as a 14-year-old girl wishing to transition.

Critics accuse the charity of going beyond mere support, encouraging children to transition simply because they deviate from gender stereotypes, and when they are too young to understand the potential consequences. They argue proper scrutiny of the charity by the commission is well overdue.

In September Mermaids launched an appeal against the Charity Commission’s awarding of charitable status to LGB Alliance, which has been critical of “gender ideology’’. It is understood to be the first time one charity has attempted to strip legal status from another.

Mermaids has, in the past, won the support of celebrities such as Emma Watson and Prince Harry, and been handed grants from the National Lottery and the government.

Pending the regulatory compliance case, a number of organisations have paused their relationships with Mermaids. The National Lottery Community Fund has suspended future payments and the Department for Education has removed it from its mental health and wellbeing resources for schools.

Mermaids was founded in 1995 and staffed solely by volunteers until 2016 when Green became its first member of staff. It has its headquarters in Leeds, with an office in London, and has 44 staff members and 110 volunteers.

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I am one of those 'kids who can't consent'. I can consent. But because of radfems allying with the conservative right, you are forcing me through irreparable changes. Every day I wake up and my body is more and more disgusting. But, because of you, I keep getting gaslit by GPs that I'm not trans, that I will learn to love my body, when the reality is it's wrong. Radfems do want to kill trans people, and they want kids to stay sexually available to them. I've lost count of the amount of lesbians telling me that I shouldn't "mutilate" my body because they lose out on another butch. You're disgusting and why I may be attracted to girls but will never date them.

Killing trans people is your end goal and that's why people think you're evil. 56% increase in hate crimes in the UK, thanks for that.

No, actually, you can't consent and if you don't understand the dangerous precedent this sets (for full grown adults with agendas to tell you can consent,) I'll explain it to you.

Within the trans community there's an idea that the sooner you can get a kid to transition, socially or medically, the sooner this can be seen as normal. The normalization of transitioning children is important, it pushes the idea that they could be born in the wrong body and normalizes the idea that a child knows what is medically best for them.

Child predators will try to find a way to have access to children by any means, now imagine how much easier it would be for them to have access to vulnerable children if they just claim to understand and support their gender identity issues.

The idea that children can consent would mean parents have no right over their children when it comes to their health and protections. I'm not saying children shouldn't speak up for themselves but we need to acknowledge that many children can be coached or groomed into saying or thinking things that may not benefit them or their safety.

The people that would love it for the law to 'recognize' that kids can consent doesn't stop at transgender rights advocates. It extends to pedophiles/child molesters that would love to get off the sex registry(something Jacob Breslow thinks it shouldn't exist to begin with) & pedophiles in position of power; informing and creating guidelines regarding childrens health & gender identity issues/transgenderism.

Pedophile sympathizer Jacob Breslow advocates for the rights of pedophiles, he thinks people are too mean to them. He thinks minors can consent too.

In his book Ambivalent Childhoods, Chapter 3 Desiring the Child: Queerness, Motherhood, and the Analyst, he writes:

[a description of a 12-year-old child dancing and mimicking sex acts to a crowd of adults.]

“As his movements transition from those that mimic break-dancers to those that mimic sex acts, repeating the easily citational gesticulations of pelvic thrusts … I find myself caught up in exhilarating waves of memory, identification, and desire … a desire for him himself,”

Why am I talking about Jacob Breslow? You should know him right? He was a Mermaids charity trustee until all of this came out, the pedophile sympathizing and all that.

Breslow also cited as an inspiration for his own writing Judith Levine’s 2002 book Harmful To Minors: The Perils Of Protecting Children From Sex in which she wrote that “sex is not in itself harmful to minors” and argued for the lowering of the age of consent to twelve.

He also was a guest speaker for a Pro-Pedophile B4U-ACT conference, an organization set up by a convicted child molester to destigmatize pedophiles and rebrand then as MAPs or Minor attracted person.

He's just one person tho, right? Not like there are more pedophile sympathizers in position of power when it comes to the transgender movement-

Anyways, all that to say;

Kids cannot consent because they don't have the cognitive or emotional maturity to understand long-term ramifications of such things.

>forcing irreparable changes

Going through puberty is normal. You've been convinced it's not but i promise you, you can still transition as soon as you turn 18 or whatever if that's what you want and you'll be fine.

Radfems don't align themselves with the conservative right but i can understand how you'd come to think that's what's happening when certain radfems talk on conservative platforms. I think there's a lack of understanding that they have no where else to speak on, especially when leftist first action is to label them as terfs and often don't give them the opportunity to have a conversation lest they be cancelled for even giving them the time of day.

Your body isn't disgusting. I'm sorry you feel that way and I'm sorry there are certain people that have convinced you to hate your body. I won't tell you you can learn to love yourself, it's taken me decades to learn to love myself and stop hating myself so much for things that happened to me that were out of my control and made me resent being a woman. Learning about radical feminism has definitely helped. I hope you can find something that will help you you as well that won't cause irreversible damage.

Radfems don't want to kill transpeople, I've already explained this in a different ask. Radfems don't want kids to be sexually available to them either, that's disgusting.

Hey, it sounds like you're dealing with a lot, including internalized homophobia, maybe some trauma. I truly hope you get an actual therapist that can listen and validate your concerns. My end goal isn't to kill transpeople tho I'd definitely would like to know where you're getting that from.

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Minnesota Twins Clinch Dates

9/15/02- The 2002 Minnesota Twins ran away with the American League Central all season long. They had a favorable lead all year and had a chance to clinch the division on September 15th. Kyle Lohse and Cliff Lee squared off in a good one at Jacobs Field on that Sunday afternoon. A Mathew LeCroy sac fly put the Twins up 1-0 in the sixth. Kyle Lohse tossed six shutout innings and the Twins offense continued to add runs. Denny Hocking drove in a pair with single in the seventh and the Twins added more in the ninth. Tom Prince hit a sac fly and Michael Cuddyer scored on a Jerrod Riggan wild pitch. Eddie Guardado threw a scoreless ninth as the Twins secured at-least a tie for the American League Central crown. Later that day, the Yankees game was called after six innings due to rain. The Yankees beat the White Sox as the Twins celebrated in the clubhouse in Cleveland. 

9/23/03- The 2003 Minnesota Twins started slow in April, but picked things up as the season had went on. The Shannon Stewart trade sparked the whole season. They used a big August to pull ahead in the American League Central. Johan Santana took a step forward as a fantastic starter in the rotation and the rest was history. The Twins faced off with the Indians again in this game. The offense got going in the third as Shannon Stewart and Luis Rivas doubled in runs. Shannon Stewart plated another run with a sac fly and Cristian Guzman drilled a homer off Jake Westbrook. The Twins had a 4-0 lead and Kenny Rogers did the rest. He threw 8 2/3 innings and hit a wall in the ninth. The Indians had a couple guys on base when Josh Bard hit an RBI single to center. Eddie Guardado struck out Greg LaRocca and the Twins had to wait for the Royals and White Sox to lose. The Yankees thumped the Sox 7-0 and the Tigers somehow thumped the Royals 15-6 that night. The wait was worth it as the Twins clinched the Central for the second straight year. 

9/20/04- The 2004 Minnesota Twins got off to a great start and didn’t stop the whole season. They rolled for a good portion of the year. A solid second half run put the Twins in good position to win the division. The Twins went to Chicago in mid-September with a chance to clinch on this Monday night. Torii Hunter and Corey Koskie homered off Mark Buehrle in the first inning and the Twins had an early 4-0 lead. Henry Blanco homered off Buehrle in the fourth and the Twins added a run in the fifth. Jose Valentin countered with two-run shot for the Sox in the seventh. Luis Rivas hit a solo homer in the ninth and the Twins added one more on a bases loaded walk. Meanwhile, Carlos Silva threw seven solid innings and Juan Rincon tossed two scoreless innings as the Twins won their third straight American League Central Division Championship. 

10/1/06- The 2006 Minnesota Twins had a rough April, but rode Johan Santana, Francisco Liriano, and Brad Radke to a nice season. They won fifteen or more games in each month since April and battled with the Detroit Tigers all year long. The division crown came down to the last game of the season in a fun one at the Metrodome. The White Sox got an early run off Carlos Silva in the first inning. The Twins finally figured out Javier Vazquez in the fourth. Justin Morneau drove in a run with a double and Torii Hunter took Javier Vazquez deep. The Twins had a 3-1 lead and added a run in the fifth. The Twins added one more in the sixth and had a 5-1 advantage. Meanwhile, Carlos Silva threw 5 1/3 innings and the bullpen did the rest. Dennys Reyes got out of the sixth on an Alex Cintron double play ball. Juan Rincon threw a clean seventh, Jesse Crain had a scoreless eighth, and Joe Nathan threw up a zero in the ninth. The Twins won, but needed to wait for the Royals-Tigers game to finish up. The two teams were tied at eight and in the twelfth inning. Kenny Rogers came on in relief for the Tigers and allowed an Esteban German RBI single. He later walked Emil Brown with the bases loaded to put the royals up 10-8. Jimmy Gobble had a scoreless twelfth as Twins fans looked on at the Metrodome. The Twins won the Central Division on one of the most dramatic days in team history. 

10/6/09- The 2009 Minnesota Twins season started rough. They were below .500 after May and still trailed the Tigers by 6.5 games on Labor Day. The Twins got hot in September and saw the deficit go down to two games with a huge four-game series in the last week of the season. The two teams split the four games and the Twins swept the Royals on the last weekend of the season. The two teams were tied and a tiebreaker game was needed. One of the best games in Major League history ensued. Magglio Ordonez delivered a run-scoring single in the third. Miguel Cabrera then belted a Scott Baker pitch out to center for a two-run blast. The Tigers had a 3-0 lead and the air in the Metrodome went out. The Twins got a run on a throwing error by Rick Porcello in the bottom of the third. Jason Kubel added a run in the sixth with a solo blast off Rick Porcello. The Twins were within a run and continued to inch closer in the seventh. Orlando Cabrera drilled a Zach Miner offering out to left to put the Twins up 4-3. That was one of the best moments of the season up to that poitn. Magglio Ordonez answered with a solo homer off Matt Guerrier to start the eighth. That tied the game and we headed to extra innings. The Tigers got a run in the tenth on a Brandon Inge double. Fernando Rodney remained in the game after getting out of the ninth. Matt Tolbert delivered a run-scoring single to tie the game. The next batter, Nick Punto then hit a flyball to left field and Alexi Casilla was thrown out at the plate to extend the game. The eleventh innings was fairly clean and we headed into the twelfth. Bobby Keppel got in and out of trouble in the 12th and the Twins had a chance in the bottom of the inning. Carlos Gomez led-off with a single to left. He went to second on a groundball and Delmon Young walked. Alexi Casilla hit a single to right and Carlos Gomez raced around third. Gomez got in ahead of the Magglio Ordonez throw as the Twins took Game 163 in a thriller at the Metrodome.  

9/21/10- The 2010 Minnesota Twins had everything. They had a solid lineup, a good rotation, and a great bullpen. They were awesome the whole year and the Jim Thome walk-off homer against the White Sox in August essentially clinched the division. The White Sox stuck around for September though. Scott Baker allowed a first inning run that night on a Travis Hafner double. Jim Thome countered with a solo blast off Roberto Hernandez in the second. The Indians used a Drew Sutton RBI single to put the Tribe up 2-1 in the fifth. The Indians added two more runs on run-scoring singles by Trevor Crowe and Luis Valbuena. Danny Valencia inched the Twins closer with an RBI single of his own in the sixth. The Twins offense finally got to work in the eighth. Jim Thome singled and was pinch-ran for by Trevor Plouffe. Delmon Young doubled home a run and Danny Valencia singled. Jose Morales hit a sac fly to right and the Twins were within a run. Denard Span kept the chain moving with a run-scoring single to left and the game was tied at four. Orlando Hudson put the Twins up with a double to center and the Twins led 5-4. Matt Capps had a scoreless ninth as the Twins clinched a share of the American League Central Division. I remember staying up late watching the White Sox-A’s game that night. The Sox were down 7-2 in the ninth when they got a couple guys on base. Former Twin Craig Breslow helped the team out by retiring the last two batters and the Twins clinched the Central that night. 

9/27/17- The 2017 Minnesota Twins had such a weird season. They would win a few games then looked terrible for a couple. The cycle went on for the first four months of the season. Brandon Kintzler and Jaime Garcia were traded as the Twins slid down in the American League Wild-Card standings. The Twins reeled off 20 wins in August and held sole possession of the second Wild-Card spot. The Twins had a chance to clinch the division that night and lost to the Indians. The Indians were shutting out the Twins until a later Jorge Polanco home run pulled them within two runs. Cody Allen got out of the jam and the Twins waited for the Angels-White Sox game to finish. With one out in the tenth, Nicky Delmonnico drilled a Blake Parker pitch out to right for a walk-off solo home run. The Sox helped the Twins clinched the Wild-Card spot that night. I remember waiting to celebrate until that game ended. It was 10:30 or so at night and I watched the Twins celebration in Cleveland. 

Overall, this was a fun trip down memory lane for me. I started following baseball in the 2002 season as a kid. The Twins got some help for the Yankees as they clinched that year. That next year, the Twins clinched at the Dome after waiting for the White Sox and Royals to lose. The Twins didn’t have to worry about scoreboard watching in 2004. They beat the White Sox and trashed the US Cellular Field clubhouse. The 2006 clinch was memorable due to the Twins winning and waiting for the Tigers to lose, so they could clinch the division. Game 163 in 2009 was the best baseball game that I have ever seen. That year was so much fun. The Twins needed to wait again in 2010 with a win and a White Sox loss in Oakland. The 2017 year was fun because they needed the Angels to lose after failing to beat the Indians. I’m expecting the Twins to clinch in Detroit this week. 

-Chris Kreibich-

[ukrfeminism]

The chief executive of Mermaids has left the transgender children’s charity after six years at the organisation.

The departure of Susie Green was announced last night on the charity’s website without an explanation.

Belinda Bell, chairwoman of trustees, wrote that the charity was grateful to Green for all she had done “to support trans, non-binary and gender-diverse young people and their families”.

The charity said an interim chief executive would be appointed shortly.

Mermaids was founded in 1995 and staffed by volunteers until 2016. Green became its first member of staff. The charity, which is based in Leeds with an office in London, has about 44 staff members and 110 volunteers.

It has come under scrutiny recently, partly as a result of its appeal against the Charity Commission’s awarding of charitable status to LGB Alliance, which has been critical of “gender ideology”. It is believed to be the first time one charity has attempted to strip legal status from another.

Mermaids has also been the focus of a number of newspaper articles. The Times reported that Dr Jacob Breslow, a trustee, gave a presentation in 2011 on “a science-informed understanding” of people attracted to children.

He resigned but Green last week acknowledged his appointment was a mistake.

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What up holmes!! If you’re around Thursday 2/22 from 5-9, this group Arts show in LIC Queens should be enjoyable for all of us Arts enthusiasts! I have one piece in the show, and with all the talented, unique and diverse works on display, this show will be well worthwhile a visit. Open till end of March, you can go any time convenient for your schedule, they are open to the public most days and long hours. Check out their page for details! Thanks loves!! Sarah http://licartsopen.org/the-gallery The LIC Arts Open Gallery at The Factory Address: 30-30 47th Ave. LIC, NY 11101 Gallery Hours: 9AM - 9PM Daily, during exhibitions. We are currently closed and will re-open for the reception of HEAD on Thursday, from 5-8pm. The management team at The Factory have generously donated this space for us to host art exhibitions throughout the year. Built in 1926 and originally used by Macy’s as a warehouse and furniture showroom, The LIC Arts Open Gallery at The Factory is housed within a 1.1 million square-foot building at the geographic midpoint of New York City - just across the East River from Manhattan in Long Island City, Queens. Upcoming Exhibition: HEAD Feb 22nd - March 30th @thegallerylic #head Opening Reception! Thursday, Feb 22nd, from 5-8pm Drinks and food are free! headSM.png Artists Include: David Andersson, Denis Barry, J. F. Bautista, Jason Breslow, John Catania, Anthony Ciambella, Margot Collins, Michael Dassle, Adrian DiMetriou, Karen Dimit, Stef Duffy, Erin Fritts, Beth Garrett, Ashley Goodwyn, Jacob Hicks, Judson Kolk, Robert Lach, Justine Lobe, Robert Lobe, Anna Muslimova, David Platt, Carol Radsprecher, Jennifer Rappaport, Hyunjung Rhee, Emily Roff, Elinore Schnurr, K. E. Sekararum, Sara Sill, Ellen Stedfeld, Scott Teplin, Verna Valencia, Sarah Young Tessa Kennedy LIC Arts Open Asst. Coordinator / Curator

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Trustee of the transgender charity Mermaids quits after speech to paedophile aid group

Members of Mermaids UK, a transgender youth support charity, take part in the Pride in London parade WIKTOR SZYMANOWICZ/FUTURE PUBLISHING VIA GETTY IMAGES

A trustee of the transgender charity Mermaids resigned last night after it emerged that he had spoken at a conference hosted by an organisation that promotes services to paedophiles.

Dr Jacob Breslow was a graduate student in gender research at the London School of Economics when he gave a presentation at an event for the US-based B4U-ACT in 2011.

According to its website, B4U-ACT promotes services and resources “for self-identified individuals . . . who are sexually attracted to children and desire such assistance”.

Breslow’s presentation appeared to be a critique of how paedophiles were understood.

Records show that the academic, who is now assistant professor of gender and sexuality at LSE, became a trustee of Mermaids, a transgender youth support charity, in July this year.

After The Times approached Mermaids about Breslow’s talk, he tendered his resignation as a trustee. Mermaids said that it was unaware of his appearance at the conference until contacted by this newspaper. B4U-ACT calls itself a “unique collaborative effort between minor-attracted people and mental health professionals to promote communication and understanding between the two groups”.

Its “scientific symposium” was hosted in Baltimore, Maryland, in August 2011, to address concerns about the way paedophilia was addressed in the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), a publication by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for the classification of mental disorders.

Breslow’s presentation was titled Sexual Alignment: Critiquing Sexual Orientation, The Pedophile, and the DSM V. A brief extract of the presentation, still available online, said: “This paper works through the DSM’s struggle to understand ‘the pedophile’ through an investigation of the highly questionable and deeply assumptive clinical, empirical and theoretical studies it cites.”

In parts, the presentation used the phrase “minor attracted persons”, a phrase used by some instead of paedophile.

Breslow was contacted for comment last night.

Last week Mermaids became the subject of a Charity Commission investigation following claims that it was handing out chest binders to children as young as 13 and 14.

The charity has, in the past, won the support of celebrities such as Emma Watson and Prince Harry, and been handed grants from the National Lottery and the government.

The charities watchdog is now investigating Mermaids’ safeguarding practices. The Times also revealed parents’ concerns last week after it emerged that children on Mermaids’ online forum were arranging to move conversations about experimental drug treatments and medical transition onto less closely supervised platforms.

Other:

** What was found to have been written by Breslow is very disturbing and somewhat graphic in detail. Please be careful for your own mental health.**

[income-internet-lifeexpecta-blog]

The influence of income per person to internet use rate and life expectancy

For the purpose of my research, I will use the data set from GapMinder, particularly about Maldives, Fiji and United Arab Emirates.

In this research the variables which will be analyzed are income per person, internet use rate and life expectancy. I would like to explore in influence of income per person to internet use rate and life expectancy. Consequently, there will be a research of the reflection of internet use to life expectancy. 

The topics I chose to do research for are very interesting for me because personally, I use the Internet for literally every need I have.

I assume that the higher income results with higher internet use in countries and states, which naturally differ vastly in terms of economics, climate, culture, history, education, geography etc.

My first research question is confirmed in general by Jacob Poushter (2016), and Ilhem Allagui and Harris Breslow (2011) particularly for the UAE.

Considering Fiji and Maldives, there are not available informations and provided recently. That is another reason to do this research, which will give me the answer. Some common informations about these islands are provided by Michael Minges and Vanessa Gray (2004).

My second assumption and hypothesis is that the higher income results in longer life, because people are able to allow themselves better conditions in life, more healthy food and other necessary goods. Moreover, the internet rate is related to this because people are able to educate more themselves from the Internet, as well as to search for their everyday needs.

As a result of the relation between income per person and life expectancy, the internet use rate has also impact to life expectancy, and it is claimed by the “Preston curve”,Acemoglu and Johnson (2007), as well as Michael Jetter Sabine and Laudage David Stadelmann (2016).

To provide an answer to my questions I will make exploratory data analysis and will describe the distributions visually using Python.

I used google scholar for the purpose of finding scholarly articles using keywords such as “income per person”, “internet use rate”, “life expectancy”, “data analysis“.

Literature used: 

Dr. Ilhem Allagui, Dr. Harris Breslow, 2011, THE INTERNET AND THE EVOLVING U.A.E.  - The Emirates Internet Project - Year II

Department of Sociology, Industrial Relations Programme University of the South Pacific, 2004, THE IMPACT OF INFORMATION/COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ON DECENT WORK IN FIJI

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN THE ATOLLS: MALDIVES CASE STUDY, 2004

Muhammad Jami Husain, 2010, Alternative Estimates of the Effect of the Increase of Life Expectancy on Economic Growth, Keele Management School Keele University

Michael Jetter Sabine, Laudage David Stadelmann, 2016, The Intimate link between income levels and life expectancy: Global Evidence from 213 years

[ukrfeminism]

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A trustee of the charity Mermaids has resigned after reports he spoke at a conference organised by a group that promotes support for paedophiles.

Dr Jacob Breslow quit the transgender children's charity after the Times revealed he had attended the B4U-ACT conference in 2011, as a PhD student.

B4U-ACT campaigns for the rights of people attracted to children and adolescents.

Mermaids says the organisation is "completely at odds" with its values.

B4U-ACT's website says it holds workshops and gives presentations about the needs and rights of people attracted to children and adolescents and runs support groups for both them and their friends and family members.

The abstract of a presentation Dr Breslow - now an associate professor of gender and sexuality, at the London School of Economics - is understood to have given uses the phrase "minor-attracted persons".

London School of Economics said: "We have been made aware of a presentation given at an external event in 2011 by a then graduate student, now faculty member of LSE. We are looking into these reports."

'Decisive action'

The transgender children's charity said: "Mermaids has been made aware of Dr Breslow's historical participation in a conference that is completely at odds with our values.

"Once notified we took swift and decisive action to investigate. Dr Breslow tendered his notice on the same day.

"We will be reviewing our processes and procedures in light of this event to make them even more robust.

"Safeguarding is of the utmost importance to Mermaids and the safety of the young people we support is our highest priority."

BBC News has approached Dr Breslow for comment but he was unavailable at the time of publishing.

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Inclusive language is used to include transmen in healthcare relevant to them, but, of course, you have to center people you perceive to be men like you center them in everything you do. You spend so much time "collecting receipts" about transwomen and people living their lives that you do nothing to advocate for actual women's and feminist issues.

Radfems and Gender Critical people are predators. Whereas Mermaids strikes off questionable individuals immediately and reviews their auditing processes, Gender Critical women openly support predators and anti-abortionists. Great to see JK Rowling retweeting an anti-abortionist today. Shows her true colors. KJK hugging a Proud Boy too. Your mask is slipping.

I've never worn a mask as i don't see it necessary and you don't know what it is i do.

I've gotten this sort of thing from tras before too, demanding to know what it is i do for women or women's rights. When told what i do they demand proof, when the proof is not to their liking they demand i dox myself so they can 'verify'.

Anon i don't have to prove myself to you, i don't owe you anything. What i will say is that radfems tend to be involved in their community helping women in what ways they can.

>radfems and GCs are predators

Projection.

Mermaids does not strike off questionable people immediately, lmao what?? They had Jacob Breslows information on the pedophile presentation for the longest time and only when certain outlets picked it up was he told to resign. In addition to that, they were doing shit behind parents backs much like a predator would.

Also idk what you want me to do about jkr and kjk? Am i supposed to go give them a stern talking to?

[ukrfeminism]

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The Charity Commission has launched a full statutory inquiry into Mermaids, the scandal-hit child transgender group, following fresh concerns about its leadership. 

The investigation is the highest level of probe under the regulator’s remit and comes days after the charity’s chief executive, Susie Green, suddenly resigned. 

It follows The Telegraph revealing “red flags” in the charity’s dealings with children, with an investigation by this newspaper finding in September that it was agreeing to send potentially dangerous chest-binding devices to 14-year-olds against their parents’ wishes. 

Evidence obtained by The Telegraph shows that the charity, which receives funding from the taxpayer and runs training for schools and the NHS, offered binders to children as young as 13 who say that their parents opposed it. 

It prompted the regulator to open a regulatory compliance case over the charity’s “approach to safeguarding young people”. 

Now, however, this has been escalated to a full investigation after fresh concerns emerged. 

The Charity Commission announced on Friday the statutory inquiry was opened on November 28 “due to newly identified issues about the charity’s governance and management”.

The regulator said in a statement: “The Commission will investigate the regulatory issues to determine whether they indicate serious systemic failing in the charity’s governance and management. 

“The trustees have fully cooperated with the regulator’s case, but their response has not provided the necessary reassurance or satisfied the Commission at this stage.

“The regulator will seek to determine whether the charity’s governance is appropriate in relation to the activities the charity carries out, which involve vulnerable children and young people, as well as their families.”

Concerns have been raised by campaigners and the parents of some transgender children for months about the charity’s practices, with some MPs even calling for a police probe.

Mermaids announced last week in a short statement that Ms Green had stood down as chief executive with no interim boss in place.

Dr Jacob Breslow, one of its trustees, also stood down in October following complaints that he had spoken at the B4U-ACT conference in 2011, a group which promotes support for paedophiles and calls for them to have the right to live “in truth and dignity”. 

Mermaids also launched the first legal challenge of its kind against the LGB Alliance, a charity which is critical of “gender ideology”, seeking to strip it of its charitable status. 

The statutory Charity Commission probe will examine the administration, governance and management of the charity by the trustees, as well as its leadership and culture. 

It will also assess whether the trustees have complied with charity law and whether there has been “any misconduct and/or mismanagement by the trustees” and a report will be published.

A Charity Commission source said no further updates will be provided until a report is produced in due course. 

A Mermaids spokesman said: “We will continue to cooperate fully, openly and with complete transparency with the Charity Commission as its inquiry gets underway.”

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The Charity Commission has launched a statutory inquiry into the transgender charity Mermaids after identifying concerns about its management.

The regulator said the inquiry — its most serious form of investigation — was triggered by “newly identified issues” around the youth charity’s “governance and management”.

It had already announced a compliance case into Mermaids after safeguarding concerns but a statutory inquiry marks a significant ramping up of its examination of the charity. It will try to establish if there was any mismanagement or misconduct by trustees.

The commission said today that Mermaids’ response to the initial compliance case “has not provided the necessary reassurance or satisfied the commission at this stage”.

It added: “The regulator will seek to determine whether the charity’s governance is appropriate in relation to the activities the charity carries out, which involve vulnerable children and young people, as well as their families.”

Mermaids has come under intense public scrutiny and last month the chief executive, Susie Green, stood down after six years in charge.

The Times understands that Green’s departure was preceded by the commission of a third-party report into the charity by Mermaids.

Mermaids was approached for comment.

The statutory inquiry has powers to investigate whether a charity and its trustees have carried out their duties and responsibilities under charity law. It will look at the administration, governance and management of Mermaids by trustees, including its leadership and culture. It will examine whether “there has been any misconduct and/or mismanagement by the trustees”.

The investigator will also look at whether the trustees have complied with and fulfilled their duties and responsibilities as trustees under charity law and, in particular, whether they had “sufficient oversight of the charity’s activities and compliance with its policies and procedures and in line with its charitable objects”.

A trustee, Dr Jacob Breslow, resigned in October after The Times revealed he had spoken at a conference hosted by an organisation that promotes services to paedophiles.

A Daily Telegraph investigation also claimed that Mermaids offered to send breast binders to children against their parents’ wishes. It said that staff on the charity’s forum agreed to send a chest-flattening device to an unidentified adult posing as a 14-year-old girl wishing to transition.

Critics accuse the charity of going beyond mere support, encouraging children to transition simply because they deviate from gender stereotypes, and when they are too young to understand the potential consequences. They argue proper scrutiny of the charity by the commission is well overdue.

In September Mermaids launched an appeal against the Charity Commission’s awarding of charitable status to LGB Alliance, which has been critical of “gender ideology’’. It is understood to be the first time one charity has attempted to strip legal status from another.

Mermaids has, in the past, won the support of celebrities such as Emma Watson and Prince Harry, and been handed grants from the National Lottery and the government.

Pending the regulatory compliance case, a number of organisations have paused their relationships with Mermaids. The National Lottery Community Fund has suspended future payments and the Department for Education has removed it from its mental health and wellbeing resources for schools.

Mermaids was founded in 1995 and staffed solely by volunteers until 2016 when Green became its first member of staff. It has its headquarters in Leeds, with an office in London, and has 44 staff members and 110 volunteers.