AIBU to consider leaving our knitting group over its new policy?

Even if it was a known way to facilitate business connections, that's OK too.

I'm in a womens business networking group. Pretty sure we're not getting raided by the police any time soon.

Hst, I'd leave if a TIM joined.

I think if it was set up as a womens knitting group then it should stay as a womens knitting group. If people want a mixed sex knitting group they are free to start one.

Don’t even start this is not at all comparable to necessary single sex spaces. It is absolutely ludicrous to elevate a knitting group to single sex hospital wards, prisons, athletic categories, dressing rooms, initimate care, and so on.

This is knitting. There is no earthly reason why it needs to be single sex.

Right, but you've said you love hearing other's views. Except, apparently, the chair's. Because you've complained about her (their?) stance on trans and non-binary knitters, her 'extreme left wing views' and her 'virtue signalling.'

So you seem pretty contemptuous of her, for someone who loves hearing other's views.

A minority yes, but we all know that it is likely that their opinions, their expectations for example that they be referred to as a woman, that their preferred though inaccurate pronouns be adhered to, that they use the womens toilets are observed by the rest of the group. Quite a lot of expectations and unreasonable concessions for one person, but that is what happens when one person thinks that their feelings are more important than other peoples reluctance to accept untruths.

Here you go, just in case you’ve forgotten what you typed a few minutes ago

Don’t agree. It’s sexism and makes them just as bad as men who don’t want women on their man only golf course or man only clay pigeon shooting range.

You can think it’s fine to justify sinking down to the shitty standards men had for us. It’s the ethics of a child.

How can a knitting group say it is for women only? It’s just for people who knit?

Who said it was chance?

And I said that a mixed group, if specified as that was fine.

But why are you so keen for women not to have any spaces away from men in addition to that? It's not a great look.

Some members do, including the elected chair that is responsible for ensuring the group doesn’t engage in discriminatory practices.

Interesting analogy.

Anyway, how about some women don't want them there, and that's both fine, and legally fine too.

by pure chance, and now OP wants to formally exclude men.
I don’t think you even comprehend the difference that makes

Bullshit. I have three brothers. During my career I was often the only woman in the room. I was the first female to reach the c suite in my multinational employer (we are talking hundreds if thousands of employees).

It’s really very disappointing to read the assumption that men just dominate even when they are outnumbered 10 to 1 in any professional or social setting. I have no time or sympathy for any woman that can’t even stand up for herself and be in a fucking knitting group of all things.

You’re acting like women are all doomed to Handmaids Tale status as soon as a commander enters a room.

That would be reason enough to keep it single sex, the misogynistic little twerp.

Its a women's knitting group, it says so in the opening post.

I love the fact that there are men who knit. I taught DS1 to knit, at his own request, when he was about 7. But sadly it would appear that someone like your grandad wouldn’t have been allowed into the OP’s group unless he was wearing a dress and eyelash extensions. The leader of her knitting group must believe that trans women are women, as there is no mention of ‘men’ being welcome. I reckon it’s just virtue signalling.

That's nonsense.

And it's not what you said.

Most of my classes are mixed, I did two classes today. No men leered at me.

So, no, I don't "know what you mean". If you mean something different to what you posted, maybe try again, saying what you mean this time?

Btw, I think the women's weight lifting class (which was held in the gym, which was mainly full of men) is actually to encourage women into weight lifting, it's nothing to do with undressing or "leering".

Is the chair not a she?

It's almost like this: I (early 60s) love socialising with people, hearing their views etc., has turned out not to be true...

Maybe Nulla is in Australia. The use of gender rather than sex and misunderstanding of the law in the UK suggests it might be so.

A women's knitting group, like a women's book club, or Boodle's, is perfectly legal.

It comes under the Associations section of the Equality Act. You do not need a legitimate purpose to have an association that is single sex. You can do it just because you want it to be single sex.