Given the possible age profile of The MJ readership the recent crisis sweeping the girl guide movement may have passed us by.
Parents are concerned boys who self identify as girls can be included on camping trips and other activities even when they are legally and physically male.
Similarly Serco, provider of the Caledonian Sleeper, stumbled into a twitter storm when they decided the option for men-only or women-only shared sleepers would be provided on the basis of self identification.
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