The WI and Girlguiding have been pressured to exclude trans women – yet the law is clear as mud | Jess O’Thomson

Since the supreme court decision, organisations have faced lobbying and legal threats. But trans people are protected by discrimination law tooWhen the chief executive of the Women’s Institute said last week that she felt the organisation had no choice but to end its 40-year policy of transgender inclusion, she sounded genuinely upset. When asked on Woman’s Hour whether a debate over trans members had been raging inside the organisation this year, Melissa Green was clear that “