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To think it is not at all sad that the Women's Institute is now only for actual women?

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SingleSexSpacesInSchools · 03/12/2025 11:36

“Incredibly sadly, we will have to restrict our membership on the basis of biological sex from April next year,” Green said. “But the message we really want to get across is that it remains our firm belief that transgender women are women, and that doesn’t change.”

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/03/womens-institute-no-longer-accept-trans-women-members-april

Tellingly - they still think women can have a penis.

Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April

Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/03/womens-institute-no-longer-accept-trans-women-members-april

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DonicaLewinsky · 06/12/2025 19:19

S1ngS1ng · 06/12/2025 19:13

You don’t care. It’s clear. I’m a woman and I have a daughter. The trans community has done nothing to hurt us, nothing.

You being a woman and having a trans child doesn't entitle you to consent on behalf of femalekind. It's a shame you're having to learn that lesson the hard way, but learn it you will.

S1ngS1ng · 06/12/2025 19:20

RedToothBrush · 06/12/2025 19:17

Your arrogance is spectacular.

At calling out mean girl crowing, victimisation and nastiness. I think not. The arrogance is clear for all to see and it isn’t those who feel
for the trans community and value inclusivity.

ThatCyanCat · 06/12/2025 19:21

S1ngS1ng · 06/12/2025 19:17

You don’t speak for all women.

And yet you try to consent for all women to knobs in the ladies' room.

S1ngS1ng · 06/12/2025 19:21

DonicaLewinsky · 06/12/2025 19:19

You being a woman and having a trans child doesn't entitle you to consent on behalf of femalekind. It's a shame you're having to learn that lesson the hard way, but learn it you will.

Learn what exactly? Who are you to dictate what I learn?

DonicaLewinsky · 06/12/2025 19:22

ThatCyanCat · 06/12/2025 19:21

And yet you try to consent for all women to knobs in the ladies' room.

Mmm, it's almost impressive that people like that have the brass neck to lecture anyone else. Imagine wanting to remove single sex spaces from females and not understanding that you're the bad person here!

S1ngS1ng · 06/12/2025 19:23

ThatCyanCat · 06/12/2025 19:21

And yet you try to consent for all women to knobs in the ladies' room.

Oh don’t be ridiculous. WI meetings are held in town halls with an array of facilities as regards toilets. There is no reason to ban trans women from brownies, guides or any other social meeting.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 06/12/2025 19:23

She said. You are not entitled to consent on behalf of other women to men invading women’s spaces. Hope that helps, Singsing.

RedToothBrush · 06/12/2025 19:24

S1ngS1ng · 06/12/2025 19:20

At calling out mean girl crowing, victimisation and nastiness. I think not. The arrogance is clear for all to see and it isn’t those who feel
for the trans community and value inclusivity.

You aren't calling out anything. You are silencing people who have been harmed.

ThatCyanCat · 06/12/2025 19:24

S1ngS1ng · 06/12/2025 19:20

At calling out mean girl crowing, victimisation and nastiness. I think not. The arrogance is clear for all to see and it isn’t those who feel
for the trans community and value inclusivity.

You are going to have to find something other than emotional blackmail and misguided moralising. We don't have to have knobs in the ladies'. It doesn't make us better humans. Men aren't women. Even if all men were lovely and all women were horrible harpies, men still would not be women.

You are writing your child a cheque that you expect the rest of the world to cash.

S1ngS1ng · 06/12/2025 19:24

Ereshkigalangcleg · 06/12/2025 19:23

She said. You are not entitled to consent on behalf of other women to men invading women’s spaces. Hope that helps, Singsing.

Nice mature posting as always-“ hope that helps”🙄

Ereshkigalangcleg · 06/12/2025 19:25

S1ngS1ng · 06/12/2025 19:23

Oh don’t be ridiculous. WI meetings are held in town halls with an array of facilities as regards toilets. There is no reason to ban trans women from brownies, guides or any other social meeting.

Men. And boys. That’s the reason. Unless you think the organisations should be mixed sex? Why do you think they are women only in the first place?

S1ngS1ng · 06/12/2025 19:25

ThatCyanCat · 06/12/2025 19:24

You are going to have to find something other than emotional blackmail and misguided moralising. We don't have to have knobs in the ladies'. It doesn't make us better humans. Men aren't women. Even if all men were lovely and all women were horrible harpies, men still would not be women.

You are writing your child a cheque that you expect the rest of the world to cash.

Trans women attending WI meetings doesn’t mean there are knobs in the toilets. 🙄

SternJoyousBeev2 · 06/12/2025 19:25

S1ngS1ng · 06/12/2025 19:00

I feel so utterly sorry for trans kids and teens. What on earth must they be thinking?That they don’t belong anywhere. Lives will be lost. I hope JK Rowling is proud of herself. Thd crowing and glee is vile, just vile.

Fuck of with the hyberbolic nonsense. It is utterly vile insinuating that women wanting back what rightly belongs to them will result in ☠️ That’s straight from the abuser’s handbook.

Men and boys can join any mixed sex or male only group. They do not belong in female spaces.

Emotional blackmail has stopped working.

S1ngS1ng · 06/12/2025 19:26

RedToothBrush · 06/12/2025 19:24

You aren't calling out anything. You are silencing people who have been harmed.

Oh the drama to cover blatant nastiness.

DonicaLewinsky · 06/12/2025 19:26

S1ngS1ng · 06/12/2025 19:21

Learn what exactly? Who are you to dictate what I learn?

As I spelled out very clearly in the post, you'll be learning that your femaleness doesn't entitle you to consent to the erosion of single sex spaces on behalf of the rest of us.

And thanks for the compliment, but it's not me dictating it. My personal contribution to the pro woman movement has been small compared to some. This is societal, and even if I personally were the most craven TRA apologist, it would still be a lesson you'd have to learn.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 06/12/2025 19:26

S1ngS1ng · 06/12/2025 19:24

Nice mature posting as always-“ hope that helps”🙄

Any comment on the substantive point? You don’t get to consent to men invading women’s spaces for me.

ThatCyanCat · 06/12/2025 19:27

S1ngS1ng · 06/12/2025 19:25

Trans women attending WI meetings doesn’t mean there are knobs in the toilets. 🙄

It does, actually... but you seem to realise there's a problem with it? Why can't there be knobs in the ladies', then?

RedToothBrush · 06/12/2025 19:28

S1ngS1ng · 06/12/2025 19:26

Oh the drama to cover blatant nastiness.

Can you please quote the nastiness?

TheKeatingFive · 06/12/2025 19:33

S1ngS1ng · 06/12/2025 19:26

Oh the drama to cover blatant nastiness.

What nastiness?

Why do you have such a problem with women having things of their own?

Gloriia · 06/12/2025 19:34

S1ngS1ng · 06/12/2025 19:00

I feel so utterly sorry for trans kids and teens. What on earth must they be thinking?That they don’t belong anywhere. Lives will be lost. I hope JK Rowling is proud of herself. Thd crowing and glee is vile, just vile.

Many of us also feel sorry for those with body dysphoria. They've been enabled in their delusions for years. I hope they get the support they need to accept themselves.

Peope cannot change sex though and access the opposite sexes facilities.

ThatCyanCat · 06/12/2025 19:37

S1ingS1ing, why can't you have a third space for both sexes where the women who want to pretend men are women can do just that? And the single sex space for women who need it - the Muslim or Orthodox Jewish women, the traumatised ones, or just the ones who know men aren't women and want a space away from them - can have that? Sure, it'll mean admitting and accepting that we don't think men are women but a) we don't because b) they're not, so why would you force us to give up our dignity, opportunity, rights and privacy for something we don't believe and is objectively untrue? Why can't anyone disagree with you?

RedToothBrush · 06/12/2025 19:37

Nastiness = disagreeing and saying no because others also have needs which should be recognised and not pandering only to one group who aren't prepared to deal with reality.

The answer is still no.

No matter how much emotional blackmail is dished out.

The majority of the public agree with this too.

climbintheback · 06/12/2025 19:42

JK Rowling is a hero - if you want someone to blame it’s the vile men in skirts wanking in the ladies and putting pics up on the internet or mooching around the lingerie department with a hard on - that’s who started this backlash that has ended up in the SC - thankyou JKR ‘The women who wouldn’t ‘wheesht’ Dr Hilary Cass, Sandie Peggie the Darlington nurses, Graham Linehan and every woman in every staff room and factory floor who have stood up and been counted - thankyou x

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 06/12/2025 19:44

I left the Women's institute because of this kind of crap. I used to be president of the one in my village but they are now 'being kind' without me...

TheKeatingFive · 06/12/2025 19:46

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 06/12/2025 19:44

I left the Women's institute because of this kind of crap. I used to be president of the one in my village but they are now 'being kind' without me...

'Being kind' to everyone but the women they're supposed to be serving it seems 🫠

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