Following an unsuccessful effort to bring Mermaids into compliance with British law, the Charity Commission has begun a “statutory inquiry” into the organization, according to the Times of London.

Mermaids “has not provided the necessary reassurance or satisfied the commission at this stage” regarding “newly identified issues” of “governance and management,” according to the Commission.

CEO Susie Green left Mermaids last Friday after leading the organization since 2016. Under her tenure, Mermaids drew worldwide acclaim from politicians, celebrities, and activists. Funding was generous.

Critics were systematically silenced or shouted down. Then this year, Green sued to have the charitable status of a completely different organization, the LGB Alliance, overturned, resulting in one of the greatest legal fiascos of all time.

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One after another, the witnesses for Mermaids admitted total lack of expertise in medicine, child development, or any scientific field related to pediatric transition.

With such admissions on the record, reporters for the Daily Telegraph noticed that the Mermaids website was offering binders, i.e. medical devices, to girls in the UK without parental notification, in violation of the law.

Concerned that Mermaids did not have “sufficient oversight,” now the Commission says they will investigate the possibility of “misconduct and mismanagement by the trustees.”

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Until October, one of those trustees was Jason Breslow, a self-described pedophile. Forced to resign after reports he attended a conference promoting pedophilia, the fact he was ever hired in the first place is evidence that oversight was either lacking at Mermaids, or had questionable judgment.

Now that the Commission is asking questions about the way Mermaids has circumvented parents, perhaps they will look at how Mermaids has influenced parents, too.

In October, the Telegraph found “homophobic” content and bad medical advice on the Mermaids web forum. Whole families were being groomed, or encouraged to groom their children.

Reacting to the report in September, MPs Joanna Cherry and Miriam Cates called for the charity regulator to investigate the matter. Although the forums disappeared soon thereafter, the merchandise store is still up, and it still gives us a glimpse into the horror show.

Why would a three or four year-old child want to “identify” as transgender? The answer is that this does not happen. Adults are choosing to identify their children as transgender, for any number of reasons.

Mermaids not only provided these parents a place to love-bomb one another during these “gender journeys,” they supplied their emerging market with branded merchandise.

Most families start to stress out over pronouns and toys right about the time children are learning language. That describes Susie Green’s own story with her son Jackie, as related in her 2015 TED Talk.

After all, if your nonprofit business model is helping girls to hate their breasts, then you want them on the path to the binder at the earliest possible age.

By the way, Mermaids is still linking to two other websites that offer binders.

Despite their legal disclaimer, the Commission should note that this one has no age restrictions, while the other links back to Mermaids and also donates binders to the organization. Perhaps the Charity Commission should tell them to just shut that whole thing down?

Breadcrumbs are everywhere. Gender criticals have been keeping receipts for years and the internet never forgets. We have not heard the end of this scandal.

Apologists for Mermaids will call it unprecedented, and they are right, but not in the way that they mean.