AROUND 100 people gathered outside the Girlguiding headquarters in Edinburgh to protest against a decision to exclude trans girls from the organisation.

On December 2, Girlguiding announced that “with a heavy heart” it would no longer accept trans girls as members , after the Supreme Court ruling in April on biological sex .

About 100 members of the Girlguiding community, including parents and younger children involved in Rainbows, gathered outside the organisation’s headquarters in Edinburgh to protest against the decision.

The protest, organised by Guiders Against Trans Exclusion, heard the evidence of a father who recently told his six-year-old trans daughter that she could no longer attend Rainbows, and who condemned the decision.

Another parent said that the decision “harms

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