A trustee who sat on the board of the British charity Mermaids has quit after it emerged that he spoke at a conference for an organisation that was founded by a convicted child rapist.
Leading LGBTQ+ charity Mermaids, which promotes transgenderism in gender-dysphoric children, is facing a new backlash over the news that one of its trustees had spoken at a conference in 2011 hosted by an organisation that promotes services to paedophiles.