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A Vote on Trans Women Joining Women's Institutes

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NC
3 years ago

Keep Spaces for women (to be clear that means female) only.

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Liz gerty
3 years ago

Was going to join but I’m fed up with male needs being prioritised

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Sarah Mckenzie
3 years ago

I support trans women in the WI and disagree with the extremists who made this petition. The more trans women in the WI the better!

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E
3 years ago

Have considered the WI later in life. Will definitely not join if it is no longer a womens only organisation

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Ruth Stewart
3 years ago

Womens institute is for women not men who identify as women. No one has ever changed sex.

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Anna Scantlebury
3 years ago

I have been considering joining my WI to make friends, but definitely will not do so if it does not remain only for natal women. Literally defeats the purpose of being for women, to allow those who are born male to join.

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Linda
3 years ago

WI should be for females only. Women have specific issues & needs that they won't discuss if males are present, however those males 'identify'

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Magsta
3 years ago

Will not join WI while it welcomes males & male bodied individuals, regardless of how they ‘identify’. Women want, deserve & need spaces free from males & male influence, and if the WI can’t see this then you really have lost sight of your origins & lost touch with women everywhere. Once we leave we won’t forget & we won’t come back.

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Alison
3 years ago

What a ridiculous world we live in now. Women's institutions, places and spaces are for women only, not men pretending to be women. Enough is enough

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Michelle Hukin
3 years ago

Supporting this in principle to protect the rights of women and girls.

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Anonymous
3 years ago

The Women’s Institute should be for women only and not include men who pretend to be women

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Linda Sloan
3 years ago

What a ridiculous situation that women - yes the real, old-fashioned type - are having to resort to measures like this to keep men out of our spaces. Trans men are men

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Alison Smith MBE
3 years ago

Thank goodness the WI are prepared to stand up for Women.

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Helen bunter
3 years ago

The fact that you allow males to be members has put me off joining

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Liz Day
3 years ago

There must be safe spaces for natal women to meet

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Linda Whitehead
3 years ago

I am so pleased the WI is taking this initiative!

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Maura Dalton
3 years ago

I would like to join , I've often thought about it. But I won't join a women's organisation that admits men, no matter how they present.

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Luisa Butler
3 years ago

The word woman is taken. No man can be a woman. They can only be trans identified men. I won’t be joining the WI until it reverts back to women (adult human females) only.

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Christina Goeke
3 years ago

Women should be able to meet without men present. We should be able to talk about the things that affect us without men. Men can never truly understand what it is like for us women. The reverse is also true. Sex matters. Biology matters. We are our bodies.

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Sara Wade
3 years ago

I could not be a member of WI while males are permitted to pose as women.