The Quakers are just as brain-dead as everyone else on this subject.

As a faith group, Quakers in Britain have a clear position statement, recorded in Minute 31 of Britain Yearly Meeting 2021. We wish to welcome and affirm trans and non-binary people in our communities. We have underlined this position in recent years through acts of witness, advocacy and solidarity. The Supreme Court judgment in For Women Scotland v. The Scottish Ministers [2025] has affected the interpretation of some parts of the Equality Act 2010. No provision in respect of protection from discrimination for trans people has been affected, nor has the Gender Recognition Act 2004. Following the ruling, the Equality & Human Rights Commission has issued interim non-statutory guidance, which goes beyond the scope and actual statements in the ruling. This is already contested and subject to legal challenge.

Notice anything missing?

Women. Trans people blah blah blah witness advocacy solidarity blah blah blah already contested blah blah. Nothing about women, just a flood of burble about trans trans trans. So progressive, so egalitarian, so compassionate.

Management Meeting and BYM Trustees have agreed the following principles which inform our decision-making about facilities at Friends House and Swarthmoor Hall:
1) Our position must uphold Yearly Meeting’s commitment to welcoming and affirming trans
and nonbinary people in Quaker spaces. Minute 31 of YM2021 is the overarching expression of our position and so governs our decisions.
2) Our testimonies of Equality, Truth and Integrity must guide the arrangements we make. No trans, non-binary or intersex Quaker, staff member, or service user will be asked to make
any disclosure or prove their status in a way that is not asked of cis people. We must
respect the dignity of each person to live with integrity, informed by the truth of their lived
experience.

Unless they’re women of course. Women have no right to live with integrity, informed by the truth of their lived experience. That privilege is only for trans people and men and trans people.

It is not possible or desirable to monitor who uses our facilities and therefore cannot
guarantee any shared space as exclusive for one group of people. We will not label
something as a single-sex space if we cannot truthfully guarantee that it will be single-sex.

Yes because that’s how that works and always has been. All toilets have armed guards at the door enforcing the “Women” sign. The Quakers are alone in not being able to employ the armed guards, so naturally it’s open season on women in Quaker spaces, and always has been. Right? Twenty years ago, thirty, fifty, all Quaker spaces had facilities open to both sexes and no other kind of facilities at all, yes?

We will take robust steps to ensure freedom from harassment or inappropriate behaviour.
We have no evidence of any harm having come to women using our facilities from trans
women or anybody else. We will investigate inappropriate behaviour (especially sexual or
other harassment and hate speech or discrimination) and follow this up, including with the
police if we believe a crime has been committed.

To put it just a little more bluntly, they will take robust steps to ensure freedom from harassment or inappropriate behaviour unless it’s trans people doing it. They will keep a very beady eye on women while letting men who pretend to be women do whatever they want all the time.

What a nasty crew, and obviously bursting with their own righteousness.