Woe Is Me!

Angela has two daughters, aged 13 and 10, who both attend their local Girlguiding group in the UK. Like many girls their age, they enthusiastically collect their badges, make new friends and attend the organisation’s large summer jamboree every year.

A lie. She has one daughter, and a son.

But as of September, Angela’s youngest daughter will have to leave Girlguiding because she is transgender.

At 10 years of age, this woman has told her son that he can be a girl. In a sane world she’d be investigated by social services but we aren’t living in one, anymore…

“It’s deeply distressing for all of us. How do you tell a child that the place they once belonged, they’re no longer welcome at? I’m unable to give her a reason that makes sense to her,” said Angela, who did not give her surname due to fears for her daughter’s safety.

It’s pretty simple, actually, you just have to admit you were wrong and you lied to your little boy. 

Her elder sister, meanwhile, is torn about what to do. “It’s a very tricky position for her to be in,” said Angela. “Girlguiding has taught her values of kindness and compassion, and now she’s being told those values have limits and that limit is your younger sister. It’s very difficult.”

Girlguiding will - should!- have also told her that she must always tell the truth, that lying, even for what seems a good reason, is wrong. 

Lily, a Girlguiding volunteer on the GATE leadership committee, said: “We’ve got volunteers who’ve been in the organisation 10, 20, 30 years, who’ve given their lives to this, who’ve built their community in this, and who just can’t bear the thoughts of kicking out young members who’ve done absolutely nothing wrong.

They have indeed done nothing wrong, but you have, haven't you? Like this boy’s mother, you lied to them, in thrall to a poisonous ideology pushed by people that don’t have societal advancement in mind.

“We have had no issues in nearly a decade of being trans inclusive. We also have cisgender men as unit helpers and activity advisers, and there’s never been any objection to any of these men being involved in Girlguiding events.”

Are these men dressing in womenface or are they men?

“Groups are now risk assessing going out in public in uniform. The public perception of Girlguiding just a few short months ago was incredibly positive. Now we’re out and about thinking, is someone going to start yelling at us in the street? All because we’ve been dragged into doing something we don’t want to do,” she said.

You mean obeying the law? If you think that’s ‘something you shouldn’t do’ if you don’t feel like it you fully deserve to be shouted at in the street!

Katie Alcock, a former Girlguider who said she was expelled from the organisation for expressing her concerns about its trans membership policy on social media, said she was pleased the leadership had “seen sense” over the issue. “Finally, the organisation that had expelled me seven years ago was prioritising safeguarding and girls’ rights to single-sex spaces. It’s a pity it did it with such bad grace,” she told the Telegraph.

It’s only to be expected Katie!

“Where was the positive spin in this statement saying it is happy to be fully in compliance with the law and it hopes this will be the start of great things?”

It’s not happy to obey the law, so why would any responsible parent want to send their child?

Lily said: “We know Girlguiding didn’t want to do this but we still want to hold them to account for the decisions they’ve made and make it really clear they are hurting people. 

“At the same time, this didn’t start in Girlguiding headquarters and it won’t finish in Girlguiding headquarters so we do want to make it clear to the government that they absolutely need to step in because so many organisations that want to be inclusive are being attacked with legal threat after legal threat and they just can’t afford to keep defending themselves.”

Good, it’s about time your efforts to be ‘inclusive’ of perversion started to cost you!