{"id":278362,"date":"2025-12-03T15:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/?p=278362"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:37:12","slug":"girl-guides-bans-trans-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/video\/girl-guides-bans-trans-girls-278362","title":{"rendered":"Trans girls banned from U.K. Girl Guides following Supreme Court ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-article-kik\">The U.K. Women\u2019s Institute also announced it will ban trans women from membership<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trans girls banned from U.K. Girl Guides following Supreme Court ruling | Xtra Magazine\" width=\"540\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xd0C3y6FgAg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">U.K.-based organizations Girlguiding and the National Federation of Women\u2019s Institutes announced this week that they will ban trans women and girls from joining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The change comes eight months after the U.K. Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of a woman or a girl is based on one\u2019s sex at birth under equality law.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First formed in 1910, Girlguiding is the largest youth organization for young girls in the U.K., and is the original Girl Guides organization in the world. Girlguiding said in a statement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.girlguiding.org.uk\/information-for-volunteers\/updates-for-our-members\/equality-diversity-policy-statement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that the \u201cdifficult decision\u201d was made<\/a> after receiving expert legal advice\u2014as well as input from its members and board of trustees.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NFWI also announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/dec\/03\/womens-institute-no-longer-accept-trans-women-members-april\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it would no longer offer formal memberships to trans women.<\/a> Starting in April 2026, new and renewing members will be expected to confirm their sex at birth to join.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NFWI CEO Melissa Green said the decision was made with the \u201cutmost regret and sadness\u201d and that the Supreme Court ruling gave them \u201cno choice\u201d but to exclude trans women from its membership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in 2023, Green said the Women\u2019s Institute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2023\/apr\/18\/womens-institute-to-continue-to-celebrate-transgender-women-amid-inclusivity-row\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">would continue to \u201ccelebrate\u201d its trans members<\/a> after an internal group tried to overturn its inclusivity policy. The policy allowed trans women to join the organization and was in effect since the 1970s before becoming official in 2015.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-end\">In the announcement, Green highlighted her frustration with the ripple effects of the Supreme Court ruling, saying: \u201cIt remains our firm belief that transgender women are women, and that doesn\u2019t change.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K. Women\u2019s Institute also announced it will ban trans women from membership<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1224,"featured_media":278363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"editorial_slug":"112","_editorial_slug":"112","exclude_from_latest_block":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,4,5],"contributors":[3053,1933],"topic":[112,141,106,2159,142],"clients":[],"series":[],"timeliness":[60],"editorial_format":[2088],"type-of-work":[2536],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278362"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278372,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278362\/revisions\/278372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278362"},{"taxonomy":"contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributors?post=278362"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=278362"},{"taxonomy":"clients","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/clients?post=278362"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=278362"},{"taxonomy":"timeliness","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/timeliness?post=278362"},{"taxonomy":"editorial_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/editorial_format?post=278362"},{"taxonomy":"type-of-work","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type-of-work?post=278362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}