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A Vote on Trans Women Joining Women's Institutes

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Una-Jane Winfield
2 years ago

Absolutely right!

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Sarah Watson
2 years ago

Around a third of women, at some point in their life have been subject to male violence and / or sexual abuse - single sex spaces are safe spaces, and survivors need those social connections badly. No thought has gone into the impact on survivors of allowing males into the Institute.

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Anonymous
2 years ago

Stowe & Stannage

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Anonymous
2 years ago

‘Legal fictions’ are bio men so should not be allowed into Women’s Institutes. It should be a single sex exemption.

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Anonymous
2 years ago

We invited Herts Chair to our meeting this month to explain accountability and supposed democracy of WI. She basically said 'they have lawyers and advisors and tell us what to do' She had rung Melissa Green before deciding not to distribute your letter to Institutes. Try sending it to Secretaries?

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Lesley Steel
2 years ago

The WI exists for women. Women need spaces free from men. Membership should be based on sex, not gender.

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Margaret Boulton
2 years ago

There are only two biological sexes male and female keep the W.I. wholey female. No such sex as transgender.

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Anonymous
2 years ago

No way would I join when they let males in!

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Anonymous
2 years ago

There will soon be nothing left for women. This isn't about inclusion. It's about women I thought that's what the WI stood for

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Linda Bentley
2 years ago

I may reconsider my membership depending upon how this important subject is handled.

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Elizabeth Roe
3 years ago

The perquisite to being a Woman Adult Human Female is Female DNA.No Human Being Can Change Sex, No MAN can be a Woman.Autogynephiles are misogynistic Male Fetishists who deliberately target the cornerstones of Womanhood to debase & destroy Womens’ Human Rights.

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Anonymous
3 years ago

Allowing men into women only spaces will only end in pain discourse for women. As women we need to stand up and be heard.

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Judi Whiting
3 years ago

DCFWI

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Fiona Pointer
3 years ago

I am not happy with the WIs transgender policy we weren’t consulted and women have spent years achieving what we have. Last year I went on the Million Women’s Rise March because my ex husband continued to abuse me for 22 years after we divorced are we going to have to stop this sort of campaign?

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Anonymous
3 years ago

I have considered joining the WI but I won’t if it includes non biological women.

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Emma Merryweather
3 years ago

Stop this discrimination and support women in their safe spaces.

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Janet Wright
3 years ago

Women must retain the right to single-sex meetings and spaces.

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Anonymous
3 years ago

North Yorkshire East federation

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Anonymous
3 years ago

The WI has no right to say genetically born females who live as a Women, are the same as those born genetically male who live as females. Its biologically impossible for a woman to be a Trans woman or a Trans Woman to be a woman! I have no problem with Trans women, as long as they accept me as a women, different from them.

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Anonymous
3 years ago

The WI is a member led organisation, and so members should be consulted about major constitutional changes, especially where it could fundamentally alter the nature of the organisation.