Mick Hartley

The Girl Guides – or Girlguiding as they are now – is one of the groups being advised by Gendered Intelligence on the delights of trans inclusivity, as noted by Jill Foster in her Telegraph article.

More here at the Times:

Girlguiding is facing legal action from a parent over its transgender policy which she claims discriminates against her seven-year-old daughter.

The claimant, who has asked to remain anonymous to protect her daughter’s identity, has alleged in a pre-action letter to Girlguiding that the organisation’s policy “exposes girls to harassment”.

Under the policy, trans girls — boys who identify as girls — are allowed to join Girlguiding, and trans women — adult males who identify as female — are permitted to undertake volunteer roles previously reserved for women.

“It constitutes and encourages unwanted conduct which violates their [girls’] dignity or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment,” the correspondence said.

“This includes, but is not limited to: sharing toilets, showers or changing facilities with boys, contact sports with boys, and sharing accommodation with boys, all without their prior knowledge or consent.”

The letter goes on to point out that Girlguiding operates “as a charity for the benefit of girls and young women”.

“For the benefit of girls and young women”. You’d be hard-pressed to come up with a body more open to precisely the worst kind of infiltration by predatory men-who-claim-to-be-women, yet somehow the idiots who run Girlguiding are blinded to their clear responsibilty to these young girls by their obsession with inclusivity. In effect, being nice to men is more important to them than the protection of young girls.

The legal action by the mother is the latest episode in an ongoing dispute that dates back to 2017 when Girlguiding changed its single-sex rules by introducing the trans policy.

In one early incident, Helen Watts, a Girlguiding volunteer, was expelled from the organisation in 2018 after raising safeguarding concerns about the policy and setting up a private Facebook group to discuss her fears.

Watts said she was worried about males who identify as women being appointed leaders to supervise girls on trips away and new regulations that stipulated parents should not be told if a transgender person joins their Guiding group.

After a four-month investigation Girlguiding ruled that Watts had breached its code of conduct and social media policy.

And the final teeth-grinding spokesperson statement:

A spokesperson for Girlguiding said: “The safeguarding and wellbeing of our members is at the heart of everything we do in guiding. Following the Supreme Court ruling, we are working closely with external advisors to ensure our policies remain lawful. We remain firmly committed to treating everyone with dignity and respect throughout this time.

As we know, these external advisors are Gendered Intelligence, a trans advocacy group. And note the emphasis on “treating everyone with dignity and respect”. That’s trans inclusivity language, where the dignity of transified men is more important than the safety of young girls.