The Department for Education has removed transgender rights charity Mermaids from its mental health and wellbeing resources for schools.
It follows the Charity Commission launching a regulatory compliance probe after “concerns had been raised” about the charity’s “approach to safeguarding young people”.
The Telegraph reported the charity was “handing out potentially harmful breast binders to girls as young as 13 behind their parents’ backs”.
The Times also reported this month that a Mermaids trustee resigned after reports he had spoke at a conference hosted by an organisation promoting services to paedophiles.
