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A Vote on Trans Women Joining Women's Institutes

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Lorraine Kelleway
3 years ago

I am not a member currently, and am signing to support all members who are against letting men in.

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Aisling Grant
3 years ago

Women need single sex spaces!

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Anna Simon
3 years ago

Trans woman are men and should not be allowed to join and single sex organisation. The clue is in the word sex.

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Mandy Tucker
3 years ago

Some groups are there for women only and this should be one of them.

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Maggie B
3 years ago

“Are we really saying it is no longer permissible for women – biological women – to freely associate with each other? That there is no space whatsoever – no changing room, no domestic-violence shelter, not even a local WI chapter – where women may gather without men? If we are, then let’s be honest about that. Let us openly say that women are no longer allowed to organise themselves as they choose. But in a free society everyone should enjoy freedom of conscience and freedom of association. In this case, that means the right of women to believe that a man can never become a woman, and the right of women to meet with other women for whatever reason they desire.”

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Julie Murphy
3 years ago

God help us if the WI can't see that sex matters!

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Michelle Dunec
3 years ago

We must save & protect sex based rights!

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Jean Marsden
3 years ago

Women only in the WI.

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Catherine farrell
3 years ago

A woman is an adult human female, not a man who says he is. Protect women’s spaces

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Anonymous
3 years ago

The clue is in the title. Women are adult female humans. Men and transwomen have every right to self-organise, create their own organisations and exclude women. Women do not need to make space for transwomen under the guise of ‘being kind’. Women are the priority here, not some misguided notion of ‘equality’ (for which women continue to fight, to this day).

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Ms Christine Lynch
3 years ago

My mother was in the WI, she died recently but would be so upset by this policy, as am I.

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Lisa Johns
3 years ago

I’d love to join the WI but cannot do so as long as men are allowed to join.

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Yolandi van der Vyver
3 years ago

Biological Woman have the right to our private spaces. We should not have to even ask for it. It’s ours by the very name.

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Mary Campbell
3 years ago

Gender ideology is to science as astrology is to astronomy.

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Yacine Rabia
3 years ago

Stop forcing your views on us! We only accept 2 genders! Men and women the same way it’s always been

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Anonymous
3 years ago

No one can change sex. Women-only spaces must remain.

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Anonymous
3 years ago

The Entire Reason Women Only spaces for women exists, is to keep Women Safe!!! Safety to speak, express themselves in a safe space, away from men. Women are now Isolating. Isolation Harms all women, who in the past we’re Guaranteed safe Women Only spaces and would reach out . Allowing men in Women only spaces is Traumatizing & Isolating Women.

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Renee Allen
3 years ago

If the WI continue to allow men to infiltrate their organisation it will go down. Men only join to turn everything the WI so into affirmation for them.

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Kate Bradford
3 years ago

We need to be given a vote on this subject.

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Paula Boulton
3 years ago

It is vital that single sex women's organisations remain