I wonder what the WI are going to announce on Woman's Hour in the next few minutes?

[nauticant]

Apparently it will be a matter of the greatest seriousness and sorrow.

What kind of country is this becoming

One that is gradually allowing women to take back the meagre protections that the TRAs were intent on taking from us.

Now who else has the same lawyers that might be making announcements?

Bollocks. I’m helping a friend out at WI next week. Too late to let her down, but I will be wearing my adult human female T-shirt.

So sexism is one of their values?

Yeah but they're not, are they?

Or okay - convince me. Tell me the definition of a woman first, and we'll go from there.

He also did "the independence of civil society organisations as a core democratic value and an essential element for a strong and healthy democracy". That was quite funny.

I think he's trying to counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor of women having knobs. (IYKYK!)

You don't think women are 'any adult'? You think there should be some other criterion?
Yet you don't know what that is apart from the circular 'woman' which you seem to define as 'any adult'.

I would love to know what your "competing perspective" actually is on what differentiates men and women but you seem to want to keep that to yourself.

By state law I was referring to the laws of nation States.

Transwomen cannot join the WI, because they're men, and men are not women.

that is not the view of the women's institute, and does not express their values.

And when we allow people to hold different , competing opinions and values , and to express/ live those out, through a free and independent civil society and freedom of association , that's a core component of democracy wouldn't you say?

😂😂😂

women’s shit is for women…not for a self selecting group of men.

If only every gender critical woman who is a member of the WI resigned from it.

Even better, if all the resignations could be co-ordinated to happen at the same time-say midnight on December 31st.

All the women could still go on meeting where ever they meet, doing what they always do but calling themselves another name.

These idiots have really got to be hit in the pocket and when they lose their jobs because the new sisterhood groups aren't enough to keep the wheels on, they might actually learn the lesson that no man is a woman.

Every time a TRA says 'democracy' another organisation reluctantly decides to stick to the SC ruling.

"he"?

Is it your common practice to misgender people as a weapon? Or are you simply daft enough to truly believe that all women have one opinion (yours) on this subject ?

Leader of WI just now on WH just said ‘it’s not the role of EHRC to tell us the law or tell us how to interpret it for our organisation’

YES, IT LITERALLY IS

And I retain my strong belief that you are not an organisation I can identify with. I'll still buy your cookbooks though.

You’re failing to perceive diversity if you want to categorize men with gender dysphoria as women.

It takes away the diversity of their trans identifying manhood and their lived experience as men.

Support their experience as people with a significantly different diverse experience to biological women.

Get to feck and when you are there, read a biology book, there's a good chap.

How would they know? - the leadership have stated that TWAW, so following this logic it is impossible to differentiate between women and TW

Unless of course they actually understand that TWANW and the rest is just pretend

Why are these people so eager to show their lack of intelligence or indeed basic comprehension?

The thing is, once you've said that men can be women, there's no further absurdity or falsehood you can give to top it. You've hit the limit. So yeah, you might as well also say that courts don't make rulings on law.

The real prospect of legal action has twisted their arm to take action.

This must be as a result of the RECENT high profile ETs and court cases.

Maybe the tear stained statements are to ward off the male backlash? 😭😭😭

If you want to campaign to remove women's rights, you are free to do so.

The Supreme Court cannot change the law. They can only interpret existing legislation.

It's surprising that anyone with an interest in this subject isn't already aware of this.

I still don't see how it can be legal to admit men who claim to be women into a "WI Sisterhood group" but not admit other men.

So these groups, legally, have to be open to all men, no?

It's almost as if they don't really care about being truthful, isn't it?

Mmm sad times - just imagine, the law of the land being applied in practice without exception…

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oh dear…wipes tears from eyes…it’s nothing to do with their values. It’s about sticking to their charter and the reason for their existence. They were illegally discriminating against men without special identities. They rely on single sex exemptions in the EA2010 to keep men out…except they were including TW so were not operating as single sex. It’s really very simple and not at all complicated.