When Katie Alcock joined the Brownies at the age of 7, she “loved it immediately”. Later, in the Guides, happy memories include camping in torrential rain and building welly stands from rubber bands and bamboo sticks. As an adult, Alcock, a senior lecturer in psychology at Lancaster University and a mother of two, became a leader at the organisation now known as Girlguiding. Alcock, now in her fifties, had expressed concerns over a shift in guidance, which, she believes, could have resulted in trans girls and women — who were born boys — being allowed to use single-sex accommodation, showers and lavatories on overnight expeditions. In its policies Girlguiding said: “We treat trans girls and women according

Source: The Times April 24, 2022 09:53 UTC