The Telegraph on the WI ructions:

The Women’s Institute (WI) has banned transgender women from becoming members.

The National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI), the WI’s umbrella organisation, revealed on Wednesday that, in light of a Supreme Court judgment on gender, it could not legally offer formal membership to biological males from April 2026.

Pathetic that they want to offer membership to males. It’s not the Men’s Institute.

The announcement by the WI – the UK’s largest women’s membership organisation – has prompted calls for public bodies to also comply with the Supreme Court ruling. Many have refused to change their policies and prevent trans women from using women’s facilities, such as toilets and changing rooms.

They have said they are waiting for Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, to publish updated guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), the UK’s equality watchdog.

Oh get a grip. It’s not rocket science. Yes, people have been erecting a huge edifice of lies and absurdities for the past ten-plus years, but the lies and absurdities are just that. Put them aside.

Rosie Duffield MP, who sits on the Commons women and equalities select committee, said: “I am really glad that finally the Women’s Institute has seen sense and realised that they exist primarily as a women’s organisation. It’s time other bodies, such as the NHS, the Civil Service and gym groups, followed their lead, and the law.”

Damn right.

Ms Green, of the NFWI, said the future of the charity relied on acting on the Supreme Court’s judgment.

She said: “As an organisation that has proudly welcomed transgender women into our membership for more than 40 years, this is not something we would do unless we felt that we had no other choice. To be able to continue operating as the Women’s Institute – a legally recognised women’s organisation and charity – we must act in accordance with the Supreme Court’s judgment and restrict formal membership to biological women only. However, this change is only in respect to our membership policy and does not change our firm belief that transgender women are women.”

Well don’t brag about it. You might as well brag about your firm belief that a large man in red pajamas comes down your chimney every December 24th.

The announcement from the WI follows confirmation from Girlguiding leaders on Tuesday that the organisation had made “the difficult decision” to prevent biological boys from becoming members.

Oh dear oh dear it’s so difficult to decide not to let boys be members of an organization for girls. The fact that the boys have their own organization is entirely beside the point.

The Beaumont Society, the longest-established transgender support group in the UK, said of the decision of the NFWI and Girlguiding: “This is a backward step in both the law and in society and will, in time be found to be as unsupportable as similar pseudosciences such as vaccines causing autism, or phrenology, or polygenism or injecting bleach to cure Covid.”

Wut? We’re the pseudoscience? Magic gender is as scientificky as not injecting bleach to cure anything?

Helen Belcher, Chair of the TransActual campaign group, accused the Government of allowing the ECHR to “impose the most extreme interpretation of the supreme court ruling”.

She said: “This is the second national charity in as many days which has been pushed to force out trans people, against the organisation’s will and at great cost. If these changes must be forced on organisations, then it’s clear this is the result of a handful of extremists imposing their views on groups which have been very happily trans inclusive for many years if not decades.

The reversal yet again. We’re the extremists, we’re imposing our doolally beliefs on everyone else.

Can we speed up the recovery a little?