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A Vote on Trans Women Joining Women's Institutes

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Heather O'Meara
3 years ago

Only MEN can be trans women. Humans cannot change sex. Sex, not gender, is the foundation of women's rights

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Anonymous
3 years ago

I would not join if men are welcomed.

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Lizzie
3 years ago

NO to any males in women's spaces. These men who pretend to be women are causing total chaos, misery and bringing danger to women and girls.

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Helen Dow
3 years ago

Women should have the right to feel safe!

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Susanne Schall
3 years ago

Women’s rights are human rights.

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Anonymous
3 years ago

I am not currently a member of a Women's Institute, but give talks for my local branches, and am very aware that the vast majority of women (in fact all in the two branches I occasionally speak at) are very unhappy with having men included as part of their number, no matter how those men identify. They also feel that they are not allowed to speak out against this policiy, and when they try are made to feel that they are the ones at fault.

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Anonymous
3 years ago

Women need single sex space

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Jane Roper
3 years ago

When anyone can be a woman then it renders the term meaningless

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Anonymous
3 years ago

Transwomen are not women. Women need women only spaces.

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Kiran Sharma
3 years ago

How can the Womens Institute not know what a woman is! Appalling!!

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Caroline Harris
3 years ago

Derbyshire Federation

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Anonymous
3 years ago

I declined membership on our newly formed village, WRI, when the advisors were thrilled to invite trans-identifying men into the group. No thanks – if I want to join a group for women, I want it to be for actual women… not men play-acting.

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Anonymous
3 years ago

We really shouldn’t have to be petitioning about this, it’s a really sad state of affairs.

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Lisa Lochhead
3 years ago

It’s outrageous! I couldn’t believe a man in dress was there cover last year. I was actually approached to run some sessions and I work with women only. So no way! Even our local institution keeps posting about being trans inclusive. Sad time for this institution.

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Deborah
3 years ago

No men joining the WI please

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Sarah Gellner
3 years ago

Just one more heinous example of loss of single-sex space for women.

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Anonymous
3 years ago

You have my full support. I would love to join the WI but will not while the current policy is in place.

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Paul Burke
3 years ago

I support you.

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Anonymous
3 years ago

Avon and Somerset

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Anonymous
3 years ago

I was married to an AGP man. Whilst I am of an age and inclination to join a group like the Women’s Institute, I will not do so whilst there is an acceptance of transwomen of joining too. I would not devote my time and energy knowing that at any time a man who wishes for women to collude in his sexual fetish could join and I would have to leave as a result.