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A Vote on Trans Women Joining Women's Institutes

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Jess Silverstone
3 years ago

The GRA is doing demonstrable harm to women, LG rights and children. Campaign to #RepealTheGRA

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Juliette Coates
3 years ago

The fact that the WI doesn't know what a woman is is baffling, and the reason why I will not join until it does.

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Francine Hedges
3 years ago Featured

I have put off joining because of the embrace of the trans cult within the institute. I'm 42 and would argue that the WI really could benefit from attracting women of working age. I will not join until the WI take a stand to protect natal women.

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Anonymous
3 years ago

I am so frustrated by this policy which excludes so many women in order to include men.

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Helen OBrien
3 years ago Featured

No point in having a support group for women, adult human females, which allows males in. Woman is not a “feeling”. Trans identifying males do not become us. They need their own clubs; even if that does not give them the “validation” they seek.

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Armorel Tara Drake Wright
3 years ago

I think it is essential that women can discuss their lived experiences.

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Tamsin Cuthbertson
3 years ago

Men, however they identify, have no place in women’s groups, spaces, or places

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Deirdre Baker
3 years ago

The WI is a female only space for women to assemble and discuss anything they choose, without having to consider the needs of men.

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Fran Rodgers
3 years ago

Natal women need their historical spaces to be able to stand for future natal women's rights.

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Christine Bakkioui
3 years ago

I totally support this petition. A man may identify as a women but he is still a man and should not be allowed in the WI.

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Freddie Brougham
3 years ago

So wanted to join a women only organisation - especially living in a rural location where women often feel isolated

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Sarah
3 years ago

The WI must ask their membership for their input. This cant be a fait accompli, ignoring members reservations

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Jeff Shepherd
3 years ago

Women are female. Males are men.

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Anonymous
3 years ago

Lancashire

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Alison timpson
3 years ago

I was going to join our local group last year but couldn't as a man was in it.

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Annie Bishop
3 years ago

Crucial

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Alison Smith
3 years ago

My grandma was a WI member for over 60 years. She died in 2015 aged 105. I am signing this in her memory. She felt so passionately about women’s rights and the disadvantages she faced over her long lifetime. Please think again about allowing men to shape our female lives in this way. Thank you.

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Suzanne Holt
3 years ago

I am a woman, an adult human female and I don't want a biological male in a dress in women only spaces

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Joanne S
3 years ago

I have elderly relatives who I want to protect.

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Steve
3 years ago

No