Girlguiding - Supreme Court Decision email

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Have just had an email from them...

As the parent of a young member in Girlguiding, following April’s Supreme Court decision relating to sex and gender, we wanted to give you an update. Many organisations across the country have been facing complex decisions about what it means for girls and women and for the wider communities affected, including us.

Girlguiding’s governing charity documents set out that the membership and people who benefit from our organisation are girls and women. In April, the Supreme Court ruled that girls and women are defined in the Equality Act 2010 by their biological sex at birth.

Following detailed considerations, expert legal advice and input from senior members, young members and our Council, Girlguiding’s Board of Trustees has made the difficult decision that Girlguiding must change Girlguiding must change, following the Supreme Court’s ruling.

From today, 2 December, it is with a heavy heart that we are announcing trans girls and young women will no longer be able to join Girlguiding. This is a decision we would have preferred not to make, and we know that this may be upsetting for members of our community.

There will be no immediate changes for current young members but more information will be shared next week.

Most adult roles, including unit helpers, district helpers and administrative support, are already open to all, so we are confident that no volunteers will have to leave the organisation.

Girlguiding believes strongly in our value of inclusion, and we will continue to support young people and adults in marginalised groups. Over the next few months, we'll explore opportunities to champion this value and actively support young people who need us.

You can find our full statement and updated policy on our website.

We are proud to be the UK’s largest youth organisation dedicated to girls and is focused on creating an equal world for girls and young women. For over 100 years, we have been a welcoming space for all girls to have new experiences, support their communities, build friendships and grow their confidence.

While Girlguiding may feel a little different going forward, these core aims and principles will always be the same. We remain committed to treating everyone with dignity and respect, particularly those from marginalised groups that have felt the biggest impact of this decision.

If you have any immediate questions, we have our special support team in place, to give volunteers, parents and carers the best support we can. We are asking Girlguiding HQ, trading and country/region staff to refer any volunteer or parent who has questions about this announcement.

My bet is a male getting off on upsetting those silly wimmin.

Yes that poster forgot all about their two children and whether or not they could be in the guides, when they got all excited about demanding access to lesbians.

I think you are correct. Gender is not a protected characteristic within the EA 2010. If you want to legally exclude groups of people from joining I believe you need to rely on the shared characteristics passages relating to associations within the EA 2010.

You can have a group with a common interest and perhaps you could say 'female gender identity' is a common interest (but ugh the regressive stereotypes!!) and you could hope that the only people who would apply to join would be females and trans identyfying males but you would come unstuck if a male who didn't claim a special identity asked to join under the guise of being an 'ally'. This would no doubt defeat the purpose of the group becuase the trans males want to be in an exlusively female environment.

But IANAL and could have completely misinterpreted the impact of the EA 2010 in this area.

Please don't act like you care, by your own admission you want fully intact males in with female rape survivors and assault survivors. You want fully intact male undressing in female only change rooms and exposing their penis and testicles to them. So don't pretend you care when your ideology sees fully intact males traumatising and retraumatising women and little girls.

That's great. So glad you're able to say this in person.

It's a real worry. The law says they are wrong. Biology says they are wrong. So why do they lie? Calling a boy a girl. Next they'll call air water and water air. I can only imagine they are doing this deliberately to destroy safeguarding to allow males access to women and girls.

Of course.
What other reason could there possibly be?
The terrifying thing is how many woman are cheerleading for it. It’s beyond belief, really.

"You can't talk about pregnancy and rape, because it might make people feel bad if they were sexually assaulted and couldn't become pregnant", is certainly a new way to try to silence women.

Fuck!

I missed this one. selffellatingouroborosofhate the message is clear. You need to reframe your trauma and to use pombear's preferred language to discuss it.

But apparently, you are the issue and pombear is fucking righteous!

This looks interesting to listen to as well and it seems to be relevant to this thread.

"The BBC is facing mounting accusations that it has failed to report impartially on transgender issues. A formal complaint has been sent to Ofcom by the Bayswater Support Group, which represents hundreds of parents who believe the broadcaster has promoted one-sided coverage of sex and gender. The group accuses senior editors of failing to reflect dissenting views, glossing over safeguarding concerns, and presenting gender identity as an uncontested fact.

Camilla Tominey and Tim Stanley are joined by parents of two young people who socially transitioned as teenagers. They describe how their children’s gender identities were affirmed at school during the Covid pandemic - in some cases without parental knowledge - and the lasting impact it has had on their families as the relationship with their children broke down.

They also discusses leaked allegations that the BBC’s coverage has been subject to internal censorship, alongside examples cited by critics - from reporting on puberty blockers to children’s television and drama - and the corporation’s response to claims of bias."

Ofcom had better watch themselves, too.

Speaking from experience, starting school and encountering institutional and widespread sexism for the first time.

School was were I was first made to wear a skirt and first got told that steam trains and cars and mechano are for boys. I like those things and really want to wear trousers, therefore I must be a boy.

🤮

Yeah, and let's talk about the massive bloody elephant in the room, AGP.

Let's see all the men practising AGP, in women's toilets, their changing rooms, department stores, girl guides, the WI, the lot.

They're not exactly backwards in coming forward. Let's see all the evidence. All the photos, all the bragging, all the, what is it again? Oh yes, gender euphoria.

I know this much. Those women having sex with men aren't lesbians. Whatever they might choose to call themselves. The men aren't lesbians either just FYI. No lesbians in those relationships at all. Heterosexuals all the way.

I was assuming Lofty was the male partner.
Either way, a man who thinks he's a lesbian woman is married to a woman who thinks she's a lesbian too and they have a kid who is a girl who thinks she's a boy... only in 2025. 🙄

Exactly, that laundry list of trans "rights" isn't the gotcha Lofty thinks it is.

When are they ever?