Secret society acceptance

• Posted by Sara Calypso August 19, 2018 Filed in Member's Blogs 2,785 views
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  As a trans person we face a multitude of discrimination and hatred directed towards us by those who through either negligence, religious bigotry or just through misunderstanding feel that we are either some sex fetish or an abomination.  It is with great interest that the time and tide are changing and that acceptance is happening and being forced by equality legislation that has been enacted.  It is great to read that one of the most secretive (if that is to be believed) societies, that itself has been subject to misinformation and discrimination has opened it door to those in and of the trans spectrum.  

  Transgender women should be allowed to remain Freemasons if they joined as men, the largest UK lodge has said.

  Expelling masons for transitioning was "unlawful discrimination", the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE) warned.

  Women who transition to become men should also be allowed to join, its new gender reassignment policy states.

  The guidance document says that a Freemason's gender reassignment should be "treated with the utmost compassion and sensitivity".

  Irrespective of gender identity, the UGLE's 200,000 members will still formally be referred to as "brothers", the document says.

  But informally they should be addressed "by the name and title he/she has chosen".

  It warns that using a mason's transition as a reason for excluding them from a men-only lodge would be "unlawful discrimination and so could never constitute sufficient cause".