Now boys can be Girl Guides if they think they’re the wrong gender
by Sanchez Manning, Mailonline:
Boys who believe they are girls are being allowed to join the Guides for the first time, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
And adults born male but who identify their true gender as female will be permitted to become leaders under radical changes to the organisation’s single-sex policy.
Controversially, the new rules state that parents of members as young as five should not be told if a transgender person joins their group.
They add that it is not ‘best practice’ to tell parents their daughters will be sharing facilities such as sleeping areas and toilets with transgender girls, who are born male, during trips away.
And they state that it would be ‘unlawful’ for leaders to inform parents their children are being looked after on overnight excursions by transgender women.
Until now, Girlguiding has been a single-sex organisation, with its chief executive, Julie Bentley, a leading campaigner for abortion rights and greater access to contraception, describing it as ‘the ultimate feminist organisation’.
Last year, girls who responded to a survey run by Girlguiding stressed how important it was to have ‘a safe, girl-only space’.
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