My daughter plays the piano, is an excellent knitter, cooks vegan food. Why should being trans exclude her?
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Anonymous
3 years ago
Biology is real and women need and deserve single sex spaces.
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Jo Kneale
3 years ago
I was a member of a WI, but left as a matter of principle over the trans issue. I feel that members were presented with the issue as a fait accompli without debate or discussion.
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Emma Barraclough
3 years ago
I haven't joined the WI after learning that it included transwomen. It's the WI. Women can have their own stuff (just like men, and transwomen).
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Lind
3 years ago
biological females only
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Rosa Borg
3 years ago
Women are adult human females & the membership of women's organisations should be sex-based rather than gender based. Otherwise they are not women's organisations.
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Anonymous
3 years ago
A woman is an adult human female. Women have the right to spaces for ourselves to discuss the specific issues that affect us. It is ridiculous that a male born person can decide they are a woman and access our spaces. Men have taken enough from woman and now we need to stand up and stop them taking out language and ability to define ours
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catherine Mudge
3 years ago
I would not join the WI which is quite active in my village if men can come in too.
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Max cockerton
3 years ago
It’s for women and only women. It’s our space not men with a fetish
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Helen Greenwood
3 years ago
It is not an organisation for women if men are allowed to join. Trans Identifying Men are not women. Women are allowed spaces away from men.
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Anonymous
3 years ago
Women's insitute is a single sex space. There are plenty of mix sex organisation that others can join
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Anne Marie Bradshaw
3 years ago
The WI should be for biological women only
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Vicky
3 years ago
I left my local WI when it became clear it was a very hostile environment for anyone who believes sex is real and matters in some context. I didn't even realise at the time the WI is open to males. I never would have joined in the first place had I known. I have nothing against men, trans men included, but sometimes I want to be around just women. These are the most inspiring and nourishing spaces I've been in. Men change the dynamic and we all know this. I'm so disappointed in what was a brilliant organisation for women.
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Viv
3 years ago
This is why iam hesitating joining my local branch. This & the lack of concessions for membership ie for disabled women & those on a low income
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Linda McKenna
3 years ago
Transgender activists are eroding woman's rights and this will be another avenue for them to devalue women further
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Jill Marshall
3 years ago
I stand with JK Rowling, Helen Joyce, Kathleen Stock, Maya Forstater et al - and now The Womens Institute
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Anonymous
3 years ago
Makes a total mockery of the concept of WI. They should be ashamed of their misogyny
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Madeleine Morey
3 years ago
Sex matters. It's what all women have in common.
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Susan Maclean
3 years ago
A friend recently incited me to join. I see no point in joining a o called Women's organisation that is in fact mixed sex.
Wells Tuesday WI, Somerset Federation
My daughter plays the piano, is an excellent knitter, cooks vegan food. Why should being trans exclude her?
Biology is real and women need and deserve single sex spaces.
I was a member of a WI, but left as a matter of principle over the trans issue. I feel that members were presented with the issue as a fait accompli without debate or discussion.
I haven't joined the WI after learning that it included transwomen. It's the WI. Women can have their own stuff (just like men, and transwomen).
biological females only
Women are adult human females & the membership of women's organisations should be sex-based rather than gender based. Otherwise they are not women's organisations.
A woman is an adult human female. Women have the right to spaces for ourselves to discuss the specific issues that affect us. It is ridiculous that a male born person can decide they are a woman and access our spaces. Men have taken enough from woman and now we need to stand up and stop them taking out language and ability to define ours
I would not join the WI which is quite active in my village if men can come in too.
It’s for women and only women. It’s our space not men with a fetish
It is not an organisation for women if men are allowed to join. Trans Identifying Men are not women. Women are allowed spaces away from men.
Women's insitute is a single sex space. There are plenty of mix sex organisation that others can join
The WI should be for biological women only
I left my local WI when it became clear it was a very hostile environment for anyone who believes sex is real and matters in some context. I didn't even realise at the time the WI is open to males. I never would have joined in the first place had I known. I have nothing against men, trans men included, but sometimes I want to be around just women. These are the most inspiring and nourishing spaces I've been in. Men change the dynamic and we all know this. I'm so disappointed in what was a brilliant organisation for women.
This is why iam hesitating joining my local branch. This & the lack of concessions for membership ie for disabled women & those on a low income
Transgender activists are eroding woman's rights and this will be another avenue for them to devalue women further
I stand with JK Rowling, Helen Joyce, Kathleen Stock, Maya Forstater et al - and now The Womens Institute
Makes a total mockery of the concept of WI. They should be ashamed of their misogyny
Sex matters. It's what all women have in common.
A friend recently incited me to join. I see no point in joining a o called Women's organisation that is in fact mixed sex.