Karyn Lisignoli, the Girl Guides CEO who was dropped by the WA branch over her comments about transgender youth, has launched a new company called Biology Matters. In a public post to Facebook Lisignoli said “So I’ve done a thing… squeal” which was posted alongside three smiling emojis filled with love hearts, and a copy […]
A new campaign encouraging people to write to their local politicians asking them to bring in laws that would exclude transgender women and girls from single-sex sports and spaces has been launched. The ‘Respect My Sex If You Want My Vote’ campaign is being spearheaded by Western Australian Karyn Lisignoli and was announced in The […]
Karyn Lisignoli, who spent less than a fortnight as the CEO of Girl Guides WA before being dismissed from her position, says she’s a victim of “cancel culture”. OUTinPerth revealed back in December that the Girl Guides of WA’s new CEO was exploring options for changing the organisation’s rules so that transgender girls would no […]
The position of Chief Executive Officer for the Girl Guides of WA is “under recruitment” today after recently appointed CEO Karyn Lisignoli’s details were removed from the organisation’s website. Last week Lisignoli publicly criticised how the Girl Guides constitution described women, saying it “pandered to an ideology”. On Twitter she suggested the organisation’s rules might […]
The new CEO of Girl Guides WA has described the organisation’s policies in relation to definitions of women as ‘pandering to an ideology’. In a public post on Twitter Karyn Lisignoli reached out to Katherine Deves, the head of Save Women’s Sport Australia asking for advice on changing the Girl Guides constitution so it explicitly […]
