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Now even the Women’s Institute (WI) is ‘willy inclusive’. The UK’s largest voluntary women’s group has this week confirmed that trans-identified males are permitted to join. In fact, transwomen have b...

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The WIs Keynsham branch had invited me to give a talk about my long and varied career as a writer.

NFWI chief executive Melissa Green said the organisation had ‘received no communication’ suggesting a change in policy is what members want.

The largest voluntary womens membership organisation in the UK - known as the WI - has faced calls to stop admitting transgender women from a group within its ranks.

The female organisation the Womens Institute - of which Her late Majesty The Queen was once a member - has faced infiltration from a man.

A group within the WI has urged the organisation to stop admitting transgender women as members.

Former Tory leader and foreign secretary tells members to ‘get used to and get over’ those who have changed gender joining the women’s group

Lord Hague attacked ladies who are opposing a change to the community organisations rules to admit members born as men.

Lord Hague said that transgender people are part of modern Britain and that organisations such as the Womens Institute must welcome them.