Another Guides one with inappropriate girl guide leader and advisory committee member

I believe that Fae /ozimek was also advising GG at one time.

the feature is, I think, that they deliberately allowed those male activists to significantly influence policy. Without once considering the safeguarding consequences. Perhaps they were too focused on gaining stonewall points.

The question you have to ask is: is this a bug or a feature? Are Girlguiding accidentally allowing men with sexual fetishes to volunteer in their organisation or are they deliberately admitting them?

From everything that's emerged about Girlguiding over the past few years, it seems clear that this is a feature, and that the organisation has been infiltrated by people who have decided to make Girlguiding a welcome place for men who want an opportunity to exercise their paraphilias of exhibitionism, voyeurism and worse.

The fact that they have managed to do this so successfully is in itself shocking, and you have to wonder how a female-run organisation that previously had robust safeguards in place for the girls in its charge has allowed this to happen.

We know that Girlguiding took advice from a Stonewall panel that included Aimee Challenor, but that surely is only part of the story.

The safeguarding holes in GG are very concerning.

I remember talking to the leader of the group I was volunteering for and she told me that all the local leaders worked very hard to make sure they took appropriate care. She said she sometimes would be extra careful around a policy she thought did not protect the girls enough, and that she knew other local group leaders who did the same.

I wasn’t quite sure what she meant at the time and then the group folded just before Sulley was discovered posting on line in his BDSM gear. I never got to ask more about it. I suspect some of the leaders were aware of the significant issues in safeguarding in the policies and decisions coming from head office.

Considering

Details of Southin's role on the panel come as whistleblowers describe an atmosphere of intimidation from pro-trans colleagues at Girlguiding's London headquarters, which is just round the corner from Buckingham Palace.

One ex-employee, who asked to remain anonymous, said she realised shortly after joining that 'gender-critical' views – the belief that there are two biological sexes and that sex cannot be changed – were 'simply not welcome'.

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The whistleblower said she felt unable to express her views at work. 'I just didn't feel psychologically safe in that environment,' she said. 'I had never experienced any organisation like it before.'

She recalls a junior manager effectively telling staff unhappy with the organisation's approach to trans inclusion: 'You've all got to get on board or get out.'

'No one challenged it,' the former employee said. A second whistleblower, who still works for Girlguiding said: 'It is essentially taken as a given within Girlguiding that trans women are women, so any discussion of biological reality is avoided. You simply wouldn't test the water, as there would be no coming back from it.'

I have very little hope for the future of this instance of GG, unless some truly massive upheaval happens. I doubt even a scandal over the burlesque transgender dancer would do it, since it would be easy to cut him off as a single bad apple if it came to that.