United Grand Lodge of England, from where it all began, goes tits up:
https://freemasonsfordummies.blogspot.co...olicy.html
The fun parts of the UGLE's proclamation:
"A Lodge may vote to exclude any member for sufficient cause. The following grounds would constitute unlawful discrimination and so could never constitute sufficient cause:
The fact that a member has legally become a woman;
A mistaken belief that a member has legally become a woman;
The fact that a member is in the process of transition from male to female; or
A mistaken belief that a member is in the process of transitioning from male to female.
Similarly a Lodge must not attempt to persuade a member to resign from the Lodge or discriminate against a member based on any of these grounds. A Lodge must not at any time require a member to prove that they are legally a man."
Word is that the British government was threatening to shut them down unless the UGLE came out and recanted that only XY units could join. I know there are people on this forum who believe Freemasonry is a source of evil, but it appears one of the last vestiges of male-only association has bit the dust in the UK. The UGLE doesn't have jurisdiction over the US or any other grand lodge in the world, but it will be fun to see how this will shake out.
My guess: it will hasten the fall of Freemasonry in the USA, which is on a steep slide to oblivion anyway. Those old farts in fez caps will walk out the door rather than admit Muffie Supreme.
Oh, sure, the first wave of trannie petitions will get black-balled to hell, but then the SJW lawyers will smell money and close in for the kill.
It will be a bitter bit of irony if the last hold-outs are the black Prince Hall Freemasons.
https://freemasonsfordummies.blogspot.co...olicy.html
The fun parts of the UGLE's proclamation:
"A Lodge may vote to exclude any member for sufficient cause. The following grounds would constitute unlawful discrimination and so could never constitute sufficient cause:
The fact that a member has legally become a woman;
A mistaken belief that a member has legally become a woman;
The fact that a member is in the process of transition from male to female; or
A mistaken belief that a member is in the process of transitioning from male to female.
Similarly a Lodge must not attempt to persuade a member to resign from the Lodge or discriminate against a member based on any of these grounds. A Lodge must not at any time require a member to prove that they are legally a man."
Word is that the British government was threatening to shut them down unless the UGLE came out and recanted that only XY units could join. I know there are people on this forum who believe Freemasonry is a source of evil, but it appears one of the last vestiges of male-only association has bit the dust in the UK. The UGLE doesn't have jurisdiction over the US or any other grand lodge in the world, but it will be fun to see how this will shake out.
My guess: it will hasten the fall of Freemasonry in the USA, which is on a steep slide to oblivion anyway. Those old farts in fez caps will walk out the door rather than admit Muffie Supreme.
Oh, sure, the first wave of trannie petitions will get black-balled to hell, but then the SJW lawyers will smell money and close in for the kill.
It will be a bitter bit of irony if the last hold-outs are the black Prince Hall Freemasons.