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A Vote on Trans Women Joining Women's Institutes

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Jennifer Drew
3 years ago

Womens' Institute was created specifically for women not men who pretend to be women! No male can magically change his sex! Boys go create your own mens' Institute!

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Gaynor Walsh
3 years ago

I was a member and saw the direction they were going in, I didn’t renew my membership

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Christine Sinclair
3 years ago

Nothing is preventing trans people from setting up a Trans institute or a transwomens institute. God knows they get enough funding. Women need our Single Sex Spaces. Gender self identity is not Sex. I cannot make this any clearer.

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Anonymous
3 years ago

Clarification of the difference between sex and gender in the Equality Act can not come too soon. Please WI - make a stand and preserve this Women's Space as a single sex space.

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Anonymous
3 years ago

Are women allowed nothing to ourselves? When the whole world is available to men, why do some of them also want to leach off the few resources women have to ourselves! Women have the right to free assembly apart from men!

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Dawn Tebbutt
3 years ago

Keep the WI for women only, and by women I mean adult human females, not men in any shape or form.

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Kerry Griffiths
3 years ago

Woman is not a feeling. It is biological reality and lived experience.

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Anonymous
3 years ago

You cannot advance the education of women and girls for the public benefit in all areas if you cannot differentiate between natal women and men who either feel like women or just get off on wearing women's clothes.

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Alan Ryan
3 years ago

Not a member ir a woman, obviously (& no man can ever become one), but just wanted to express support for this initiative to stop the gender-stupidity/madness inveigling itself into the WI. Support and best wishes from here in Ireland.

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Stewart Gibb
3 years ago

Women should have the right to organise as a sex class separate to males.

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Jennifer Perera
3 years ago

Trans women are not real women

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Stella Williams
3 years ago

An impt petition- ‘what is a woman’ is surely a central question for a women’s organisation!!

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Gillian Di Carlo
3 years ago

Men are not women, cannot become women and will never be women. We MUST keep them out of the WI.

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Caroline Scales
3 years ago

I’m now over 60 and thinking of joining the WI - but I certainly won’t be doing so if the WI includes biological males.

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Kathryn Fuller
3 years ago

Women are a category based on biological sex, not 'gender identity'.

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Anonymous
3 years ago

Biology matters, and sex matters. Transgender people have their own spaces let females have their own too.

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Charlotte Francis
3 years ago

Men can never be women and women can never be men. It's shameful that the Women's Institute pretends not to know what a woman is.

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Doreen Pugh
3 years ago

Women wont be erased

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Jane Carlisle-Leahy
3 years ago

Good luck ladies

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Anonymous
3 years ago

I would not join a local WI if the space was not single sex.