Girlguiding Ambassador Ashley James dramatically resigned from her ambassadorship. She won't be missed. Really.
She resigned over the implementation of the Supreme Court ruling, which states that sex is biological. So basically, sex at birth, which means that male-bodied individuals could no longer join the Girl Guides.
Nothing wrong with that. In my view, the absolute correct move.
The utter hypocrisy of some of these so-called celebs claiming to support protecting women and girls, then enabling this ludicrousness which began in 2017 when suddenly male-born individuals were allowed to join the Girl Guides under the guise of inclusion.
Don't they get it? It's not meant to be inclusive. It's meant to exclude boys. It's in the title: Girl Guides.
By its very nature, it's exclusive to girls, and there's nothing wrong with that at all.
Why? Because there's nothing wrong with boys and girls doing separate activities based on their gender and it's for the safety of women and girls.
Now, that's not to say that there is or isn't a danger in this particular pursuit, but it opens the floodgates for abuse of the system further down the line.
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Extending beyond the Girl Guides prisons, for example, who can forget double rapist Isla Bryson, who pretended to be trans so he could be placed in a women's prison?
There'll be some numpty comparing this to racism. How did we get here?
Well, you only need to look at our weak, successive Governments that have pandered to a handful of powerful lobbies who have overridden common sense.
Take puberty blockers. A year ago, Wes Streeting was outraged. They were being prescribed to young people.
Children who, in my view, are not equipped with the capacity to make life-changing decisions based on their minimal understanding of gender stereotypes, which is, frankly, all that's left to determine what a man or a woman is, if you disregard biological reality.
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What is a woman if it's not an actual thing? If it's just a feeling, what does it feel like to be one?
Every woman feels differently, and every woman has a different experience of being a woman.
Now, Wes is enabling what can only be described as an experiment where puberty blockers will be given to more than 200 children, potentially as young as eight, who think that they may be transgender.
Wes said this on LBC earlier: "And medication that delays or indeed stops a natural part of our human development, which is puberty, I am deeply uncomfortable with."
He actually banned them after the Commission on Human Medicines said that they posed unacceptable safety risks.
Wes went on to say that they are following that evidence and it doesn't sit comfortably with him.
He said he was trying really hard as a politician not to interfere or block clinical advice by people who are, frankly, far more qualified than him.
To be fair to Wes, the trial was recommended in the Cass review, which pointed out the remarkably weak evidence to support the use of puberty blockers in gender questioning children.
The report also included the use of therapeutics and mental health support. I think I'd actually start there first before prescribing drugs.
I certainly wouldn't be giving puberty blockers for children who are, in my view, going through what I believe is a natural part of puberty.
I have complete, heartfelt sympathy for those going through gender dysphoria, but I'm afraid I don't believe children have the capacity to understand where this can lead.
So-called innocuous decisions on things like inclusivity can result in a butterfly effect, a ripple of consequences that accumulate over time, sending children down a pathway of puberty blockers.
A frightening prospect.
In my view, this trial could end up being on a par with the infected blood scandal.
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