From the Department of Made-up Problems:

Youth charities like Girlguiding can hopefully come up with “innovative” ways to ensure children do not feel excluded in the wake of a ban on trans girls joining, the Children’s Commissioner has said.

The ban is on boys joining. Girlguiding is for girls (the name is a broad hint). Lots of things are for boys; Girlguiding is one thing that is for girls. If boys feel “excluded” because of that, well, welcome to what it’s like being a girl.

A coalition of volunteers and parents has argued that refusing a child based on their gender identity “sends a message of rejection” to young people.

But it’s not based on their “gender identity”, which is meaningless. It’s based on which sex they are. That’s not “rejection”; it’s allowing girls to have something boys have had since forever.

Girlguiding – which has around 300,000 UK members across its Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Rangers groups – announced in early December that it will only allow those recorded female at birth to join.

In other words Girlguiding will allow only girls to join Girlguiding. Fancy that.

Dame Rachel de Souza said she was “so sad” to hear of children feeling excluded.

Buck up, Dame Rachel. I’m guessing that what you “hear of” is not actual children actually feeling excluded, but adults drunk on trans ideology imagining hordes of children sobbing themselves to sleep. Or, even less persuasively, adults drunk on trans ideology simply claiming hordes of sobbing children, because that’s how trans ideology gets propagated and enforced. There’s really no need to feel sad about imaginary boys longing to be in Girl Guides. Most of those boys will have already been raised to think girls are weak and worthless, so they won’t want to go anywhere near Girl Guides.

“And what I hope is that Girlguiding gets together with its sister organisations and other charities to think about how every child can be included, and nobody has that feeling of ‘they can’t be there’. So, you know, I’m hoping for some innovative on-the-ground response.”

But we have that “they can’t be there” feeling all the time. All of us do. It’s just part of life. We can’t barge in everywhere, we can’t join everything there is to join, we can’t always open that locked door. Just go for a walk around your neighborhood to test out my claim. Can you walk into every house you pass without first getting permission? No you can’t; in fact, you can’t walk into a single one without first getting permission. Life is full of “can’t be there” situations. It’s not something that normal people cry themselves to sleep over.

And then there’s the imbalance issue. Items like Girl Guides tend to be belated corrections to situations where male people have a good thing and after a few decades or centuries female people get a version of that good thing. There was Cambridge, and then after a long time there was Girton. It’s not unfair that there was and is Girton, because there was already Cambridge. Men don’t need to invade women’s things because men have had men’s things for far longer than women have had women’s things. Boys don’t need to infiltrate Girl Guides. They really don’t.