So, Girlguiding just tweeted this.
Obsolesence got blocked for saying this in reply.
This is just the latest symptom of a nasty little bug they picked up from Stonewall when ‘Aimee’ Challenor was still on their trans advisory board. Another symptom was Girlguiding Leader Helen Watts losing her troop because she questioned Stonewall’s safeguarding advice; advice heavily influenced by the theories of academics like ‘Grace’ Lavery (abuses girlfriend and posts the photos online) and ‘Veronica’ Ivy (cohabits with a paedophile).
Here’s the interview I did with Helen in 2020.
Girlguiding’s safeguarding principles, as they apply to men, begin well enough—copper-bottomed, as they should be— but the instant a man identifies as a woman, those principles don’t just relax, they disappear.
In other words “certain sacred men can do anything they want”.
That Overton Window, eh? Where will it end up next?!
I had a look at their recruitment equality monitoring: https://twitter.com/Sexnotgender_/status/1454580319177281540
Yes, it is as bad as you'd expect...
They’ve been baaad for a while now. Two years ago my daughter was in Brownies, and her friend moved up to guides, being 10 years old. After her first session at guides, her mother noticed she was very quiet and teary. On questioning her, it transpired they had played ‘career charades’, and her daughter had pulled out, and attempted to act out, the profession of … ‘Stripper’ (she had no idea what a stripper was).
And no, these weren’t slips put in by the girls themselves, but by the Girl Scout leader. Girl’s mother phoned the leader, received an apology and was assured it wouldn’t happen again.
I didn’t let my daughter join guides.