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Britain's oldest breastfeeding charity has called in regulators amid claims of 'harassment and bullying' over a policy to include trans women in meetings.
Directors at La Leche League GB (LLLGB) have requested the Charity Commission intervenes over an inclusivity policy that permits biological males.
The majority of the charity's board of directors have objected to allowing transgender women to be at the gatherings.
Directors have raised concerns that the diktat from the global organisation – based in the US – could mean volunteers are also forced to give advice to trans women wishing to breastfeed.
But a minority of its board members have sought to implement the inclusion policy and brought in LLL International as back up.
Britain's oldest breastfeeding charity has called in regulators amid claims of 'harassment and bullying' over a policy to include trans women in meetings (stock image)
Meetings are currently female-only and LLLGB's directors have resisted attempts to permit males.
The row has become so heated that it has seen six of the 12 board members sent
