Politics Hub: Latest updates from Westminster<\/a><\/p>\n Image: Since that time, the umbrella organisation said it had undertaken “detailed considerations, expert legal advice and input from senior members, young members”, its council and board of trustees.<\/p>\n The deadline gives affected members and their families “time to plan, prepare, access support, and decide when – between now and September – they feel ready to leave”.<\/p>\n By that date, any trans girl or trans woman volunteering in a role open to women only, will need to move to a role that is open to all volunteers, or in other words, males or females.<\/p>\n Around 300,000 people aged between four and 18, are part of the organisation, members of the Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and Rangers groups within Girlguiding, as well as around 80,000 volunteers.<\/p>\n It also repeated its previous assertion that it doesn’t know how many members and volunteers will be affected by the new gender rules as it doesn’t collect gender identity information.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n \n Girl guides ptrotest against trans ban\n <\/p>\n Girlguiding said it is still “committed to standing up for the rights, safety and dignity of girls and women, and to supporting marginalised communities, including LGBTQ+<\/a> people, to improve the lives of girls”.<\/p>\n Campaign group Trans+ Solidarity Alliance described the news as “heartbreaking for the children and volunteer leaders that hold Girlguiding together”.<\/p>\n It said: “Inclusive organisations being bullied into excluding people against their will is a profound failure of this government to live up to its promises to the trans community.”<\/p>\n Following the initial announcement last year on the change to membership, a coalition of volunteers and parents argued that refusing a child based on their gender identity “sends a message of rejection” to young people.<\/p>\n Read more from Sky News: Guiders Against Trans Exclusion (GATE) coordinated demonstrations in various UK cities at the time.<\/p>\n But while some volunteers within Girlguiding have threatened to resign over the issue, others welcomed the change, saying they had expressed safeguarding concerns and were pleased at the new approach.<\/p>\n It was also announced in December that transgender<\/a> women will be banned from becoming members of the Women’s Institute<\/a> from April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Transgender girls have been given until 6 September to leave the Guides. The deadline set by Girlguiding follows…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-492987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Girlguiding](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/skynews-girlguiding-hq-london_7201836.jpg\")
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