Girls are weak, emotional, can’t drive and like pink and makeup according to Girlguiding.

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I’m utterly speechless.

Im a but surprised too. I kind of hoped my girls going through guiding would be in a n enviornment where girls can just do anyrhing. Not where it has to be spelt out "even if you're a girl" or where people have to think long and hard avout whether girls can wear trousers. It sounds like the new programme hasnt been rewritten by guiders on the ground but a bunch of londoncentric people maybe.

Mime are at stages about to change groups and this alongside the transmadness is making me wonder about leaving/scouts. I cynically wonder if its being systematically destroyed from the top down.

@dolorsit

Thank you for that explanation around the history of it all.

My son doesn’t want to join the Brownies, he just asked the question as in his seven year old head it seems very unfair that his sister could join the Cubs if she wanted to. Interesting though as well that where we live there are huge waiting lists for the Cubs but lots of spaces in the Brownies so I wonder if they will apply the same logic at some point and go unisex.

MyView it varies between areas, but that’s not the national picture at all. No waiting lists for any age of scouting groups round here. They are much better off for volunteers though on the whole and that helps.

If the activists saw that they'd probably be labelled Terfs for defining sex as being biological.

Myview

Glad to be of help. Aah I love how young kids have this strong sense of fairness.

OP i think you have misunderstood this piece.

OP hasn't been back, so I'm guessing any misunderstanding was deliberate.