Mick Hartley

The Tavistock Clinic claimed that it didn't have any records of dealings with Mermaids boss Susie Green. Oh dear. It now turns out that they did:

A trans lobby group helped to draft NHS plans for treating children questioning their gender, The Telegraph can disclose.

Susie Green, then chairman of the charity Mermaids, was part of a task group reviewing services at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation trans clinic.

The service specification, which outlines treatment for children, included details on how “hormone blockers will now be considered for any children under 12”. The relationship between Mermaids and senior NHS employees is laid bare for the first time in documents seen by The Telegraph.

The Tavistock claimed that it did not have emails or minutes of meetings with Ms Green but after the information regulator threatened court action, it released more than 300 pages.

They show that Ms Green had a direct line to Dr Polly Carmichael, Tavistock’s director, and demanded to be regarded as a professional so she could refer ­children for treatment when their GPs refused. Ms Green, who has no known formal medical training, held an advisory role on two of the studies that the clinic was involved in on the long-term effect of gender identity.

Obfuscation and lies. What a surprise.

They are the documents that the NHS Tavistock gender clinic claimed did not exist. More than 300 pages of emails and minutes that lay bare for the first time the extent of Mermaids’ involvement in England’s only clinic for transgender children.

The controversial transgender charity has long been named by some whistleblowers as one of the reasons why the Tavistock lost its way, with claims that activists pressured staff to prescribe potentially life-altering drugs.

Now The Telegraph can reveal how Susie Green, then chairman of Mermaids, had a direct line to the clinic’s director Dr Polly Carmichael and was able to make referrals even when a child’s GP repeatedly refused.

The documents lay bare the depth of her involvement in the service, including helping to redraft the service specification and advising on a number of trials designed to inform the way they treated young patients.

Seems like a regular old correspondence between Susie Green and the Tavistock's Polly Carmichael. Real pals, they were.

Stephanie Davies-Arie, founder of Transgender Trend, said: “The Tavistock were really in thrall to these activists. They were ideologically captured.”

Let's remember how this all started for Susie Green. Her husband didn't like their son's seemingly effeminate ways, so they decided that instead of a gay son they'd have a trans daughter. Off the lad went to America for puberty blockers, followed by a trip to Thailand on his sixteenth birthday for "cross-sex surgery". "Transing away the gay", as they say. Then Green was head of Mermaids, where she could use her influence to persuade other parents to follow their inner homophobe and get their children transed. Then the Tavistock, whispering in Polly Carmichael's ear.

Now she works for Gender GP,  which sends out cross-sex hormones online….