A £500,000 lottery-funded grant to Mermaids, a charity that promotes transgenderism in gender-dysphoric children, has been paused while it is probed by a watchdog over safeguarding concerns.
The National Lottery has frozen future funds from the leading LGBTQ+ charity amid a recent series of revelations and accusations.
It comes days after a trustee who sat on the board of the British children’s charity quit after it emerged that he spoke at a conference for an organisation that was founded by a convicted child rapist.
Jacob Breslow, associate professor of gender and sexuality at the London School of Economics, gave a talk to U.S.-based B4U-ACT in 2011. B4U-ACT was co-founded by Michael Melsheimer, a paedophile and convicted sex offender….