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Girlguiding Limits Membership: Transgender Girls Excluded

12/3/2025

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Girlguiding, the U.K. youth organization, announced on December 2, 2025, that it will no longer allow transgender girls to join its scouting groups.
The decision follows a Supreme Court ruling interpreting the 2010 Equality Act to define "woman" as "biological sex".
It will now accept only applicants recorded female at birth, citing legal advice and input from council.
Trans rights advocates criticized the move as harmful and discriminatory.

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Story summary

Girlguiding, the U.K. youth organization, announced on December 2, 2025, that it will no longer allow transgender girls to join its scouting groups.
The decision follows a Supreme Court ruling interpreting the 2010 Equality Act to define "woman" as "biological sex".
It will now accept only applicants recorded female at birth, citing legal advice and input from council.
Trans rights advocates criticized the move as harmful and discriminatory.