The changing narrative, a thread:

Mermaids: we're not saying children are born in the wrong body.
Also Mermaids:
https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/news/support-my-trans-child/

Mermaids: it's not about toys and clothes.
Also Mermaids:
(parent stories before they cleaned up their website)

Mermaids: it's not about stereotypes.
Also Mermaids: where are you on the spectrum from Barbie to GI Joe?

Mermaids: definitely not about stereotypes
Also Mermaids: even before the ages 4-5, these children may reach instinctively for toys of the opposite gender

Mermaids: it's not about the wrong body
Also Mermaids: "I talk to teenagers who self harm and are suicidal because they cannot bear living in the wrong body"

Mermaids: children should be encouraged to wear what they want, play with what they want
Also Mermaids:
(Via Susie Green's Ted Talk)

Mermaids: not about the wrong body
Also Mermaids: girl brain in boy body
(the Ted Talk)

Oh and does anyone know how to archive that top Mermaids link? Ten quid says those quotes are going to disappear pretty quickly.

And of course, there's this, also now removed from their website: https://twitter.com/ripx4nutmeg/status/1296357164764798976?s=20

A few more. Mermaids recommends a number of books in their factsheet including:
10000 dresses: a boy who is told he can't wear dresses but then he identifies as a girl and that makes it fine.

Then there's the recommendation of When Kathy is Keith. I can't find the inside of this book but based on the cover, perhaps it should have been mentioned to the child that girls don't have to wear long hair, bows and dresses?

Then there's the recommendation of The Boy Who Was Born a Girl, complete with quote that some children know from the outset that they were born in the wrong bodies and that some younger children in the Mermaids support group feel this way