It’s always seemed odd to me that the boy scouts had to accept girls, but the girl guides didn’t have to accept boys.
Not really, the patriarchy mostly worries about “men” socially transitioning to women because that’d undermine core beliefs about men being superior and therefore any one who’d give up these supposed advantages is a threat to the social order and only doing it with bad intentions to assault women or a kink thing they want to take outside the bedroom.
Why do you think men are socialised to ridicule and ostricise other men who act too effeminate?
Butch up.
What kind of man are you?
Sissy boy.
Etc.
There’s (slightly) more context in the linked article. Basically they want to exclude boys because they’re called the Girl Guides. They can only do that lawfully under the Equality Act that recently said this was only designed to cover what you were born as. At least that’s their logic.
I don’t understand why they can’t ignore that unless they’re being pressured by people who hate trans people on a threat of being sued? Not very clear from the reporting.
