Louise McSharry

So her parents spoke to the paper and said that, you know, she had been told that their daughter would be treated like any other child.

The father said she felt really included and absolutely enjoyed it.

For the next couple of hours, she wouldn't stop talking about it.

Two weeks later, in December 2025, Girlguiding announced it was going to ban trans girls and women from joining the organization as new members.

A response to the UK Supreme Court's April 2025 ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex.

just heartbreaking this father found out through another parent who had to tell his daughter that she wasn't allowed to go back she's six she is six like what difference would it make it's just horrifying and like it's you know there's so much going on in the world that would make you bang your head against the wall and kind of wonder what anyone is thinking but this is one of the things that just really I will never be able to get my head around like

The damage it does, the untold harm, the lives lost as a result of this, it's just sickening.

And for what?

You know, for what?

Like, you know, come back to me when you can prove to me that trans people are the root of all evil, because I'm certainly not seeing it.

Like, it's crazy.

is what like really gets me going this like because I just you know we had made great progress it feels like as a as a society in terms of just allowing people to just literally all you're saying is just let you live your life the way that you want to live your life and for the vast vast vast vast vast vast vast majority of cases that has absolutely no impact on anyone else

And yet for some reason, we've decided to make this a bone of contention, a topic of debate.

And now, you know, legislation and, you know, high level decisions that actually mean that, you know, people's lives are really being impacted.

People who probably already have quite challenging lives.

It's absolutely galling.

I can't understand it.

I will never understand it.

And I'll never shut up about it because it's disgraceful.

Like the Girl Guides thing really, like really gets me.