I'm a member of Ladies Circle (yes the name is a bit stupid but that's not the point) Most of you won't have heard of it, there is a female equivalent to Roundtable. A organisation for Women and round table is for Men.
The basic principle is socialising with woman in you local area and if you want doing some things for charity like Fireworks or Santa Floats.
I joined when I didn't know anyone in the local area and it's been brilliant I've made loads of friends and done things I wouldn't normally plus had fun helping at fireworks.
It's great to socialise with just women and the dynamics would be totally different if it was mixed sex.
A while back there was some talk of allowing all women however they identify in, recently the national council released a Belief statement when it became clear they are allowing self ID.
Here's the statement:
GENDER
Ladies Circle GB&I is open to everyone ages 18-45 who identifies as being, or lives as
female. This includes people who are cisgender, transgender, and those assigned female at
birth who are nonbinary.
…POLITICS
Ladies Circle GB&I is a non-political association.
That said, we do occasionally get involved in campaigning on issues that affect women. In
the past this included prevention of cervical cancer, reduction in VAT on sanitary industry
and the Women’s National Commission.
Each local Circle where asked to discuss the belief statement and feedback our group feedback gave mixed feedback some for some against.
What is interesting is that they have since clarified where the advice came from and it's a roundtable male that transitioned and set up an EDI company so on the advice of one person they are altering a single sex organisation to mixed sex.
They may as well change the name to People Circle 🫣
Anyway it's really pissed me off today so I thought I'd share.
Title and OP edited by MNHQ to remove terms that broke our Talk Guidelines