#The Mermaid UK

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"SENTENCED TO LIFE OF ALIENATION, THE FIRING SQUAD WOULD BE A FUCKING VACATION!"

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on Swedish hardcore punk/råpunk band ANTI CIMEX, performing live at the infamous Mermaid pub in Sparkhill, Birmingham, UK (the equally infamous wallpaper gives it away), on July 5, 1986. 📸: Jenny Plaits.

"You better look twice before you look my way, We all know I'm guilty there's nothing more to say! Guilty of not doing what you do, Sentenced to life of alienation, The firing squad would be a fucking vacation! Guilty of not being just like you."

-- "Criminal Trap" (1986) by ANTI CIMEX

Sources: http://victimsofabombraid.blogspot.com/2013/06 & Negative Insight.

#ANTICIMEX #ANTI CIMEX #80s hardcore #80s punk #Hardcore punk #Raw punk #ANTI CIMEX 1986 #The Mermaid UK #Punk photography #Swedish hardcore #Swedish hardcore punk #Punk gigs #The Mermaid 1986 #ANTI-CIMEX #UKHC #Scandinavian hardcore punk #Råpunk #D-beat #The Mermaid UK Pub #1980s #Sparkkill UK #Scandinavian hardcore #The Mermaid Pub UK #DISCHARGE punk #The Mermaid #Birmingham UK #1986

[maybelsart]

My Full Myths and Mysteries collection is now available on my etsy!

#enamel pin #hard enamel pin #myths and mysteries #etsy shop #etsy uk #small business #medusa #griffin #kitsune #mothman #cockatrice #kirin #harpy #manticore #kelpie #unicorn #dragon #phoenix #mermaid

[ayoungkiing]

I’m not ever going to stop thinking [or posting] about this moment. ✨

#I don’t know why it took me so long to make these gifs #jonah hauer king #halle bailey #uk premiere #the little mermaid #prince eric #ariel

[top-the-cat]

#uk politics #the little mermaid #tory scum #stephen collins

[themoschinobraedits]

"I'm not a very 'poor me' kind of person. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that."- Amy Jade Winehouse

#amy winehouse #amy jade winehouse #amy jade mermaid #gimp #eit #my edit #back to black #you know i'm no good #adele #lana del rey #lady gaga #camden town #camden #london #uk #england #jazz #hip hop #rap

[westidia]

That first picture is to die for 😫!!

Halle Bailey and Jonah Hauer-King at the The Little Mermaid world premiere UK 🤍🧜🏽‍♀️

#that other man dont even exist to me #halle bailey #jonah hauer king #my ariel #my Prince Eric #prince eric #the little mermaid world premiere uk #the little mermaid 2023 #the little mermaid #the little mermaid world premiere #disney little mermaid

[artbytesslyn]

My friend @jawsstone is hosting a charity raffle later today where you can get my unreleased acrylic charm potions, as well as lots of cool stuff from other cool folks! All proceeds go to Mermaids UK to support transgender and non-binary youth!

Link to the stream!

Link to complete raffle rewards!

Link to Mermaids UK!

#charity stream #mermaids uk #trans support #artbytesslyn #jawsstone

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

UP THE LONG-HAIRED/HEAVY PUNKS! -- PUTTING PACE & POWER IN THE '80s UK UNDERGROUND.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on guitarist/co-founder of the almighty AMEBIX, Stig C. Miller, performing live at the Mermaid in Birmingham, UK, c. late 1986.

Anyway, never seen this one before, and I wish there had been more to post from this same gig. Some killer shots of Spider (on drums) would have been nice. 🤘🎸💢📸

Source: www.picuki.com/tag/crusties.

#AMEBIX #Stig C. Miller #Heavy Music #The Mermaid UK #Birmingham UK #UK punk #80s #Second Wave UK punk #Monolith LP #Crust punk #Punk rock #UK crust punk #Stig #Photography #The Mermaid Pub UK #UK crust #1980s #Mermaid Pub UK #Dark punk #1986 #Guitarist #Metal punk #Punk metal #Stig Miller #Arise! #The Mermaid #Sparkhill UK #Stig da Pig #Heavy punk #Punk gigs

[devdas5z]

Shakira in Vogue UK November 2023

#shakira #black leather gloves #leather gloves #gloves #black leather jacket #leather jacket #black dress #mermaid dress #mermaid #vogue uk #british vogue #fashion

[ayoungkiing]

I love how he is looking at her ✨✨✨

#jonah hauer king #halle bailey #I know it was already posted but how lovely #the little mermaid #may 15 #uk premiere

[nomorerww]

HMMM maybe there’s consequences in radicalizing a bunch of young, impressionable people, or treating “Transphobia” as some unimaginable, omnipotent force that causes people to become “ticking time bombs”. Or maybe seeing transphobia in EVERYTHING, including opportunistic trolls who see crit from GC feminists as an easy jab. You must think you’re psychic to confidently declare to a million online followers that a troll MUST be an “anti-trans activist”! Because any dick out there’s obvs anti-trans and as we all know, ya gotta make sure to emphasize that anyone critical of the TRA movement = automatically bad because discouraging people from ever looking into GC discourse is the best way to keep them on your side. One rando that replied to Jones told him that the women he decided to single out were straight (gender criticals don’t list their sexuality in their bio) and he just ran with it. Facts are important unless you’re talking about an endlessly vilified group of feminists, then they just get in the way, tbh.

“Today, almost the whole media is anti-trans, but while transphobia is rampant, anti-trans sentiment is not as widespread as anti-gay sentiment back then.” says Jones

Meanwhile, mass media is reporting women in dehumanizing terms such as “uterus-havers” and “menstruators” while men don’t get the same treatment (not to mention how male crimes are reported as being done by women now) so fucking men don’t feel left out of a the word “woman”. Big transphobic media published one article from someone I didn’t like, this is unacceptable! Fucking nazis.

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And while feminists are among the only groups to scrutinize problematic charities like mermaids, Jones makes sure to only focus on some minute point being made (which is still important) and not the whole picture which is far more damning.

Mermaids espouses the true knowledge to best practices even if it is a political lobby group which has no professional scope or focus.

They’re so controversial that they were removed from the BBC advice page.

BBC Newsnight recently reported that staff concerns over too-hasty referral of gender-questioning children to medical intervention were being ‘shut down’ by the national Gender Identity Development Service. And the NHS has ordered an independent review of the use of puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria in children.

[…]

Mermaids Backpedals on ‘Wrong Body’ Narrative After UK Government Issues Schools Guidance Continue reading Mermaids Backpedals on ‘Wrong Body’ Narrative

The organisation, which reported an income of over £750,000 in 2019-20, runs support groups and helplines for families and gender-questioning children aged under 19, and lobbies for access to medical interventions, such as puberty-blockers, for young people as a suicide prevention method. It has been widely criticised for perpetuating the line, ‘better a trans son than a dead daughter.’[…]

In numerous media interviews Mermaids CEO and founder Susie Green, who evaded UK age restrictions when she took her child, Jackie Green, to Thailand for a full sex-change operation when he was 16, has told how the first signs of gender questioning were her son’s preference for playing with dolls.

Mermaids removed checklist aimed at helping parents understand if their child is trans, experts chime in to say that the “[…]Mermaids checklist are all those that one might see in an undiagnosed /diagnosed teen autistic girl”

Charity ‘advised mum to force her son, 7, to live as a girl’

Here is the court report

But ofc, no pro-transing charity could as bad as “anti trans” activists and parents deemed transphobic according to Jones. What’s not concerning according to TRAs is traumatizing a kid by triggering an intervention by social services in cases where it’s not necessary because being wary of puberty blockers & hrt doesn’t automatically make you an abusive parent.

more:

#owen jones #trans activists #mermaids uk #transing children

[themoschinobraedits]

“Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.” - Amy Winehouse

#amy jade mermaid #amy winehouse #amy jade winehouse #frank #gimp #edit #my edit #camden town #camden #london #jazz #uk #england #united kingdom #adele #lana del rey #lady gaga #nas #mos def #hip hop #rap #sarah vaughan #ella fitzgerald

[shiftythrifting]

#submission #thrifting #wine mom chic #uk #shiftythrifting #alcohol mention #mermaids

[coochiequeens]

Standing up for women is transphobic. Standing up for same sex attracted people is transphobic.                                                 If you have enough clout to sue to have another organizations charity status removed you’re not really oppressed 

A judge will consider an appeal by the trans rights charity Mermaids on Friday against the Charity Commission’s decision to award charitable status to the new gay rights organisation LGB Alliance. It is understood to be the first time one charity has attempted to strip legal status from another.

The highly unusual hearing will focus attention on increasingly fractious debates over sex and gender identity, and the legal definitions of same-sex attraction and sexual orientation.

Mermaids, which supports transgender, nonbinary and gender diverse children and their families, launched an appeal last year against the Charity Commission’s grant of charitable status to the LGB Alliance. It argued that the group was set up primarily to lobby the government to restrict the legal rights afforded to transgender people.

Challenges to Charity Commission decisions are usually prompted by allegations of financial abuse or mismanagement, but this hearing at the General Regulatory Chamber will require the judge to consider whether the purpose of LGB Alliance is “exclusively charitable for the public benefit”.

Preliminary legal documents submitted by the charities will also force lawyers to consider the two charities’ polar opposite world views.

If the court decides that the Charity Commission was wrong to award charitable status to LGB Alliance, the ruling could have implications for other charities, potentially making them vulnerable to legal challenges by institutions with conflicting outlooks.

The legal discussion will set the LGB Alliance’s position that there are only two sexes and that gender is a social construct against Mermaids’ position that transgender people’s gender identity should be affirmed.

In preliminary legal documents, Mermaids cited a speech by one of the LGB Alliance’s founders, Kate Harris, where she said she and colleagues were “building an organisation to challenge the dominance of those who promote the damaging theory of gender identity”.

Mermaids’ legal papers also claim that LGB Alliance has campaigned to stop Mermaids from advising schools and other government bodies on transgender rights.

LGB Alliance’s website states that it opposes gender identity ideology, and believes it is “harmful to gay men and lesbians, as well as teenagers grappling with their sexual orientation”.

In the complex and evolving world of LGBTQ+ rights, the creation of the LGB Alliance in 2019 followed a change in direction from Stonewall, which moved in 2015 from being the UK’s largest lesbian, gay and bisexual charity to an organisation that also fought for the rights of trans people.

LGB Alliance states that it believes the issues faced by “people who are attracted to the same sex (homosexual/bisexual) are different from those of transgender people”.

In its preliminary submissions, LGB Alliance sets out its position that same-sex attraction should be defined by biological sex (male or female) not by gender identity, at a time when many mainstream charities have shifted to a different definition of same sex-attraction, based on attraction to someone’s gender or gender identity, rather than someone’s biological sex. It says it was founded in part to disrupt a narrative that critics of Stonewall were homophobic.

It campaigns for an end to the medicalisation of gender non-conforming children and young people, and states that it believes the desire to transition gender can be a response to the homophobia of the parents or peer groups; it also raises concerns about the use of puberty blockers.

In a press statement, Mermaids said LGB Alliance’s real purpose was “the denigration of trans people and the destruction of organisations that support them, in particular through political lobbying and campaigning for changes to the law. These are not charitable purposes for the public benefit; they are political objectives designed to roll back legal protections for trans people”.

The statement added: “Mermaids, along with the country’s leading LGBTQ+ charities and organisations, speak with the single voice of a single community when we say we will not be divided.” But LGB Alliance states that there is no uniformity of outlook and they represent a divergent position.

The Charity Commission considered concerns about LGB Alliance before coming to its decision last year to award charitable status. However, it concluded that LGB Alliance was established for “exclusively charitable purposes”, and would work to promote the elimination of discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation.

It found that “a purpose of promoting the equality and human rights of lesbian, gay and bisexual people is not inherently discriminatory and does not necessarily have the effect of inhibiting the rights of transgender people”. It noted that the charity’s website states: “Disagreement does not equal hate.”

Mermaids’ action is backed by the Good Law Project, which, like LGB Alliance, has launched a crowdfunding appeal to pay for legal costs.

Jo Maugham, the director of the Good Law Project, said: “Charitable status is for those who serve the public good … We do not believe they meet the threshold tests to be registered as a charity.”

LGB Alliance said in a statement: “LGB Alliance is the only registered charity in the UK that exclusively supports lesbians, gay men and bisexuals. This is the first time that a registered charity has challenged the registration of another charity in court.”

The hearings are expected to conclude next week, and the judge will subsequently deliver a fresh ruling on whether or not LGB Alliance has charitable status.

#UK #lgb alliance #mermaids #Challenges to Charity Commission #Protect women’s rights #Protect the rights of same sex attracted people

[aworldofpattern]

Daveed Diggs at the UK premiere of The Little Mermaid, wearing Moschino Pre-Fall 2023

#daveed diggs #the little mermaid #uk premiere #red carpet #fashion #moschino #patchwork #pre fall 2023 #pattern #surface pattern #surface pattern design #pattern design #textile design #textiles #2023 #celebrity fashion #celebrity style #black actors #poc #black men #natural hair

[luckydiorxoxo]

Jonah Hauer-King and Halle Bailey attend the UK Premiere of "The Little Mermaid".

#jonah hauer king #halle bailey #Uk premiere #Disney #the little mermaid