Ok we’re not allowed to throw the front door open to them, but we can open a window in the back.

A transgender row is threatening to tear the Women’s Institute apart.

The National Federation of Women’s Institutes (NFWI), the institute’s umbrella organisation, announced earlier this month it would ban transgender women from becoming members in line with the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on sex and gender.

But it has now been accused of attempting to “breach the law” by creating “sisterhood” groups that would be open to transgender women.

But transgender women=men, so creating sisterhood is not possible. If you’re a sheep farmer you can’t create sheephood groups that would be open to wolves, because wolves are not sheep and wolves like to eat sheep. On both epistemic and safety grounds, these back door arrangements are not reasonable.

The nationwide network of trans-inclusive groups will allow “all people, including transgender women, to come together to socialise, learn from each other and share their experiences of living as women”.

Men don’t have any experiences of living as women. They can’t; it’s not possible. Why do we have to keep repeating such an obvious and familiar fact. Tigers don’t have any experiences of living as rabbits and men don’t have any experiences of living as women.

Cathy Larkman, of the Women’s Rights Network, told The Times that the plans were “highly disturbing”.

“It’s highly disturbing that there is a cohort of women in the WI who are not only determined to either circumnavigate or completely breach the law but … are also entirely willing to trample over the rights of all the other women in their group to continue admitting men,” she said.

“I suggest these women leave the WI and find a mixed-sex organisation to join instead, where they will be free to prioritise men.”

That. Make your own god damn groups that welcome all genders yadda yadda; just stop hijacking the existing groups that were set up for women and women only.