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A trustee on the board of a U.K. charity for transgender children resigned Monday following an unearthed speech he had given to an organization that promotes services to people sexually attracted to minors.
Dr. Jacob Breslow, who serves as associate professor of gender and sexuality at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), tendered his resignation to Mermaids, a nonprofit whose website says it "has been supporting transgender, nonbinary and gender-diverse children, young people, and their families since 1995."
Breslow's resignation came after it was reported that when he had been a graduate student in 2011, he had given a presentation at a conference with the Maryland-based B4U-ACT, according to the Times of London.
B4U-ACT, which was cofounded in 2003 by Michael Melsheimer, who served four years in federal prison for aggravated sexual assault involving children, promotes services and resources "for self-identified individuals … who are sexually attracted to children and desire such assistance," according to its website. Melsheimer died in 2010.
The organization did not respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment by time of publication.
The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university located in London, England, and a constituent college of the federal University of London. (EYEPRESS via Reuters Connect)
According to his website, Breslow's research "brings together critical race, trans, feminist, queer, critical migration, and psychoanalytic theories to explore the role of childhood in shaping and challenging the disposability of young black life, the steadfastness of the gender binary, the queer life of children’s desires, and the precarious status of migrants."
In his 2011 presentation before the B4U-ACT symposium, titled "Sexual Alignment: Critiquing Sexual Orientation, The Pedophile, and the DSM V," Breslow said in part, "Allowing for a form of non-diagnosable minor attraction is exciting, as it potentially creates a sexual or political identity by which activists, scholars and clinicians can begin to better understand Minor Attracted Persons."
"This understanding may displace the stigma, fear and abjection that is naturalized as being attached to Minor Attracted Persons and may alter the terms by which non-normative sexualities are known," he continued. "Furthermore, this paper argues that this distinction is potentially another step towards the complete re-thinking of paraphilias within the DSM – a step that follows historically and theoretically from the removal of homosexuality."
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Mermaids is a transgender rights nonprofit based in Leeds, U.K. The organization has distanced itself from a former trustee who gave a presentation about "minor-attracted persons" in 2011. (Richard Klune via Getty Images)
In press statement following his resignation, Breslow said: "I unequivocally condemn child sexual abuse. My work is about protecting marginalized children and young people, not exposing them to harm."
"It was my understanding in 2011 that B4U-ACT was an organization that promotes treatments to prevent offending by pedophiles. I believed at the time that the purpose of the conference was to enable better treatments and interventions that prevent harm to children. I would not have attended the symposium otherwise. I have not been affiliated with B4U-ACT since," Breslow continued.
"I decided to resign as a Trustee of Mermaids as I did not want to distract from the good work the charity is doing to help transgender and gender-diverse children," he added.
"Mermaids has been made aware of Dr. Breslow's historical participation in a conference that is completely at odds with our values," Mermaids said in a statement to the BBC. "Once notified we took swift and decisive action to investigate. Dr. Breslow tendered his notice on the same day."
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Emphasizing the importance of safety, the nonprofit also said they will be reviewing their "processes and procedures in light of this event to make them even more robust."
Belinda Bell, the chair of the organization, also released a statement online assuring the public that Breslow "had no interactions with any of our young people or families and only attended one regular quarterly board meeting."
A protester holds the trans flag and snaps in solidarity with other speakers, during a demonstration at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, on June 25, 2021. (Stephen Zenner/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
According to the Times of London, parents expressed concern last week after a revelation that children on the Mermaids' online forum were trying to move conversations about experimental hormone treatments and surgeries onto less closely supervised platforms.
The National Lottery paused its £500,000 grant to the charity, which is being investigated by the country's Charity Commission amid allegations that it was providing "breast binders" to children as young as 13 behind their parents' backs, the Times of London reported.
Mermaids was also cited in the U.K.'s Cornwall Schools Transgender Guidelines, which were originally published in 2015. In addition to suggesting how best to implement gender-neutral toilets, the guidelines used in many U.K. schools also encourage acceptance of cross-dressing and gender transition among children.
The guidelines are being reevaluated after the government recently settled in court with Christian parents Nigel and Sally Rowe, who had sued the U.K. Department of Education after a primary school had labeled their son potentially "transphobic" when he was 6 years old.
U.K. parents Nigel and Sally Rowe took legal action against their country's Department of Education after a school labeled their young son "transphobic." (Christian Concern)
Using the term "minor-attracted persons" to describe pedophiles has also stoked controversy in the United States. A video went viral in August of Miranda Galbreath, a licensed sex therapist and counselor in Pennsylvania, where she appeared to defend "minor-attracted persons."
"They are probably the most vilified population of folks in our culture," Galbreath said in the video posted on YouTube titled "Let’s talk about minor-attracted persons."
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In 2021, Old Dominion University, a public university in Norfolk, Virginia, put professor Dr. Allyn Walker on leave following viral comments he made apparently attempting to normalize the phrase "minor-attracted persons."
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