Former head of scandal-hit Mermaids joins rogue gender clinic

The former head of controversial trans-activist group Mermaids has joined an unlicensed clinic, which prescribes puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children.

Susie Green, who resigned as Chief Executive of Mermaids in November following an outcry over her “incapable” leadership, is now raising money at GenderGP to give to young people who cannot afford its ‘gender-affirming’ services.

In 2010, Green evaded UK restrictions by taking her 16-year-old son to Thailand for full sex-change surgery.

Safeguarding

The former head of Mermaids said she was “proud” to work for GenderGP, claiming it has faced “huge adversity” and been subjected to “misinformation”.

GenderGP’s founder Dr Helen Webberley was suspended from practice last year, after a medical tribunal found that she had failed to follow up on two patients aged twelve and 17 who had been prescribed testosterone. She also did not warn an eleven-year-old of infertility risks associated with puberty-blocking drugs.

The clinic has been based overseas since the General Medical Council banned Webberley from working in the UK in 2018, after she was found running her illegal online clinic from her home in Wales.

‘Discredited’

Mermaids is currently under investigation by the Charity Commission over its “governance and management”. The watchdog opened a regulatory compliance case in September, following revelations the group had been sending chest binders to girls as young as 13 without their parents’ knowledge.

The trans-activist group provided over 300 training sessions to organisations such as NHS trusts and schools during 2021-22, more than double the number for the previous twelve months.

The group pocketed £151,246 from the 329 sessions it delivered to over 5,000 people in 2021-22, up from £59,546 for its 143 sessions during 2020-21.

Mermaids reported that its income increased after moving training sessions online following the coronavirus pandemic.

Resignation

Last month, the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) announced that it had scrapped staff training by the trans-activist group following an outcry from medics.

The trust had booked a number of Mermaids training sessions ahead of SLaM’s expected takeover of NHS England’s Gender Identity Development Service, prompting the medics who exposed the service to raise serious concerns.

In October, a Mermaids trustee resigned after attention was brought to a paper he delivered in 2011 that attempted to normalise sexual acts with children.

In the same month, it was revealed that the scandal-hit group employed a man who had posed for highly sexualised photographs and posted them online.