WI To Decline Trans Women's Membership

The Women’s Institute (WI) has announced it will no longer offer formal membership to transgender women, a change it says is made with "sincere regret." The new policy will take effect in April 2026.The organization, which runs thousands of local branches across the UK, stated the decision follows a Supreme Court ruling earlier this year. That ruling clarified that under equality law, a woman is defined by biological sex for the purposes of single-sex organizations.Until now, the WI had allowed...