So, Mermaids have gone full coercive control.

'If you don't do what I want I will hurt myself' is the absolute axiom of abusive relationships.

So, let's be very clear.

1. It was your rights movement's decision to try and push through an affirmative > https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/news/a-call-to-j-k-rowling/

model of care by using suicide statistics as a battering ram. Despite the fact that it flies in the face of everything we know about how to speak about suicide, and how utterly immoral it is to encourage suicidal ideation in people.

2. It is your rights movement who have >

propagated a discourse that tells young people that anybody objecting to your political objectives hates trans people and wishes them harm. Do the young kids you are responsible for even know *what* your rights movement is attempting to push through with respect to the erasure

of sex in law and public policy? Do they even know *what* we, and Jo Rowling, are objecting to? Because I'd be extremely surprised if they do, given how they are constantly told that it's nothing but evil hatred and transphobia. Given that they are more or less instructed to not

read it because it is so dangerous for their well-being.

3. Which is to say, your rights movement has deliberately exacerbated and exploited the vulnerabilities of young people in order to create leverage to force through a political and medical program without democratic due

process or scrutiny while excluding and demonising women for expressing opinions about matters that profoundly affect them, and the well-being of children.

And as that strategy starts falling apart, because women will not allow themselves to be bullied and steamrollered,

instead of stepping back and considering whether maybe there is a less insane and manipulative way of doing this, you decide to just double down on the coercion, and double down on exploiting the vulnerability of the people you have a duty of care for.

You are an abusive, coercive, manipulative, emotionally blackmailing morally bankrupt bunch of fraudsters.

The sooner young trans people actually get an organisation that stops using them as a political battering ram and stops imposing ideology on their care the better.