Mick Hartley

The absurdity of the gender cult in one image:

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Here's Susie Green, former CEO of Mermaids, demonstrating for "Together in Pride", when her claim to fame is that she transed her son – had him castrated on his 16th birthday – because his father thought he was too effeminate. How much clearer does homophobia have to be?

Yet the awards keep on coming:

In a surprise announcement for Anne Co-Founder and Director, Susie Green, last night she was presented the CEO of the Year Award at the 2024 Trans In The City Awards Gala. Acknowledged for her outstanding contribution to trans youth and adults over several decades – both during her time as CEO of Mermaids, and more recently in co-founding Anne Health with Lizzie Jordan – Susie was lost for words at the surprise announcement. 

Malcolm Clark at The Critic:

Sponsors of Trans in the City include a roll-call of top brands from Barclays, Macquarie, Amazon and BP to Ernst and Young, BAE Systems and OVO Energy. In 2021, the Stock Exchange even put on a party in honour of Trans in the City complete with a light show and dancers. The latest of the group’s trans training days for executives was hosted by the software company Sage at their headquarters in the Shard building.

Has any civil rights movement in history been as successful, so rapidly, as the trans lobby at inserting its agenda into what socialists used to call “the commanding heights of the economy”. If only the revolutionary Left of the past had known they didn’t need to storm capitalism’s centres of powers. They just had to get men to throw on a skirt and sashay past reception with head-tilts at the ready.

A question remains though. Do the corporate sponsors of Trans in the City really understand what they are supporting? One thing that suggests they do not was the centrepiece of last month’s Gala: Trans in the City’s 2024 Awards.

As executives looked on, Trans in the City handed its top honour to one of the most controversial social justice activists in the UK.

Trans in the City describes its CEO Award as “our most prestigious”, yet incredibly it decided to hand it to Susie Green, the former boss of the “trans child” charity Mermaids. She has often been criticised for promoting the notion that children as young as two can signal their trans identity. She claims to have become convinced her own son Jack was really a girl before he could properly walk.

“As a toddler,” Green has explained, “he always headed for the dolls in toy shops”. He also “loathed having his hair cut”, she says, to dispel any lingering doubts.

So confident was Green of her son’s transgender status she flew Jack to Thailand in 2009 to have him castrated. This would have been a criminal offence if it had been conducted in the UK. This kind of “sex change surgery” can only be conducted on over 18s in this country (Jack was 16 at the time). The same rule now applies in Thailand too.

Green's record, as Clark demonstrates, has continued to be dubious if not downright unethical. After she was kicked out of Mermaids, her new company Anne Health now offers to supply puberty blockers to troubled teens, despite their NHS ban.

The choice of Susie Green as CEO of the Year defies simple common sense. When Trans in the City plumped for Susie Green they picked someone who is currently CEO of a company, Anne Health, which was only founded in August last year. According to Companies House it has yet to post any accounts. How can someone possibly be CEO of the Year whose company’s performance we know nothing about?

Green’s CEO of the Year Award doesn’t just lend an air of respectability to her unethical behaviour. It gives the impression to potential customers and suppliers of Anne Health that they should place their trust in it. After all, they just have to look at all the major banks, accountancy firms and law firms who back her award and the lobby group that awarded it.

Celebrating Susie Green as the acme of executive expertise is a perfect example of how transgender ideology is now given a free pass in the business world. Perhaps it’s time that firms stopped obsessing about being vehicles of social justice and concentrated instead on not sabotaging their own reputations. If not, they are the ones at risk of being marginalised.