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A Vote on Trans Women Joining Women's Institutes

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Donna zurcher
3 years ago

This is for women of all ages and nationalities

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Anonymous
3 years ago

Women’s spaces are for women only. Sex is real, gender is not.

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Caroline Hann
3 years ago

If women want to meet without men present, they should be able to. Let them vote on it.

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Lisa Pyatt
3 years ago

The WI should not allow men who say they feel like women to become members and WI members have *nothing* to learn about being a woman from such men. Stop insulting women.

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Nicol Rampton
3 years ago

No way would I join a 'women's institute' when biological men are also allowed to join. You need to change your name to 'Anyone's Institute'.

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Amanda Speedie
3 years ago

The Women's Institute is a powerful voice for women, and needs to be for biological females only. It is an organisation that works for girls and women and must remain so.

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ann worthington
3 years ago

I am considering resigning from the WI over this, but will stay for one year so that there is an opportunity to discuss it within the organisation first.

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Taylor
3 years ago

With you all the way. Keep up the fight to keep womens space just for women

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Nigel Winter
3 years ago

Women only spaces are vital. Trans women are Men

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Sheva Burton
3 years ago

Sex matters. I am extremely troubled by trans ideology & the dangers posed to women & girls. As a survivor of CSA - I'm shocked at the charities/services meant to be safe that are including 'transwomen' ie MEN into spaces & displacing language that even can affect court proceedings if a perp demands to be called 'SHE'!

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sandra
3 years ago

I am busy working at the moment, but once I retire I can 100% tell you I don't join organisations which focus on gender ideology. By allowing these men women will automatically be scared to have a voice on women's issues. The reason I speak so strongly against this is my own adult son claims trans. It's a lie he get's off as seeing himself as a woman AGP. He also has body issues on his height and depression. He bullied me into calling him a woman. I refused as I believe women have the right to be able to talk about themselves in their own sex class. Our language matters. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions I will be more than happy to answer them.

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Marianna Barber
3 years ago

Rejecting gender ideology is essential to maintaining women's sex based rights, safety and dignity.

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Tess Hackett
3 years ago

Women are being erased and hard won rights our ancestors fought for are being taken. Trans women are men and should not be included in women’s spaces!

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D Banks
3 years ago

Women are female - please stop allowing abusive males to invade women's spaces by just claiming to BE women!

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Anonymous
3 years ago

Allowing membership to lapse this year - this is no longer a women’s group

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Judy Keiner
3 years ago

It is essential that women are free to organise and associate as women. There are no “new women”. Female impersonators are not women. No man can become a woman, whether by abuse of medication, elective genital mutilation, dressing up to look cosmetically a bit like a woman or act of will. No woman should be expected to accept falsehoods about women’s biology, or to accept that a man who thinks he is a woman is just as much a woman as their mother or grandmother.

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Anonymous
3 years ago

NFWI have lost their way. They need to remember why the WI exists. If a trans women wanted to join my WI, I would leave.

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Anonymous
3 years ago

I was intending to join the WI. Not now.

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Anonymous
3 years ago

It’s a women only group. Adding men changes tge dynamic and could make women feel unsafe and uncomfortable.

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Anonymous
3 years ago

The WI is for woman born female, no men should be included, dress wearing or not!