“Make a Promise, Keep a Promise”: that was the resounding message outside Girlguiding HQ as hundreds of current and ex members, leaders, parents and allies turned out in joyful force to oppose the organisation’s ban on trans girls participation. At the beginning of December, Girlguiding – the national governing charity that oversees girl guide groups in the UK and which previously said it was “proudly trans inclusive” – announced it had made the “difficult decision” to ban all trans girls from its groups, which includes Rainbows, Brownies, Guides, and Rangers. On Saturday afternoon (13 December) a demonstration – one of many happening across the UK during the weekend – took place outside Girlguiding’s headquarters on Buckingham Place Road, central London, led by campaign group Guiders Against Trans Exclusion. “This decision to exclude trans members is not what members of Girlguiding want,” Lily, spokesperson for Guiders Against Trans Exclusion – and who was a Brownie, Guide, Young L...