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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Alexandra Topping

Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April

Melissa Green speaking on a stage
Melissa Green said her organisation wanted trans women to remain ‘part of the WI family’ and that from April it would launch new ‘sisterhood groups’. Photograph: Imageplotter/Alamy

The Women’s Institute will no longer accept transgender women as members from April following the UK supreme court ruling on the legal definition of a woman, the Guardian can reveal.

Melissa Green, the chief executive of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes, said the organisation had taken the decision with the “utmost regret and sadness”, adding it had “no choice” but to exclude trans women from its membership.

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