Summary
This TransLucent subgroup has been established for all members of the Women's Institute to gather, discuss, exchange information, and provide mutual support. Membership of this group is not restricted to WI members; it is open to past WI members, trans allies, allies, and supporters of an inclusive WI.
WI Support Group:
Group aims and objectives:
This TransLucent subgroup has been established for all members of the Women’s Institute to gather, discuss, exchange information, and provide mutual support. Membership of this group is not restricted to WI members; it is open to past WI members, trans allies, allies, and supporters of an inclusive WI. This follows the December 3rd 2025 announcement by the Women’s Institute of England and Wales that trans women will no longer be accepted as members, and that existing members will not be able to renew their membership.
Founder of this group:
Petra Wenham, a member of the Cake and Revolution Women’s Institute group (Ipswich, Suffolk) and a trans woman who was featured in the WI’s house magazine WI Life in their July/August 2021 edition. Up until her mid-60s, Petra had struggled with her core female identity and the male gender assigned by society (based on birth sex), and like many trans people had, for safety reasons, presented according to her birth sex.
A serious illness and a spell in hospital during 2015 caused a major life re-think and the decision to move from a position of knowing but in denial to accepting she was a transgender woman. In 2016, she began embracing her transition from male to female, supported by her wife of 51 years. She has had a passport with the ‘F’ marker since late 2019 (and a driving licence) and, in late 2025, a GRC was granted. You now have a very happy woman.
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