Earlier this week, the Grand Master of Masons in Virginia, issued an edict (as well as change in petition format) governing rules for membership of transgendered persons in lodges holden under the Grand Lodge of Virginia. [1] In this edict, MW Flora states the following:
“Freemasonry traditionally being a Fraternity of good men, no person shall become or remain a Mason who does not continue to remain both physically and legally a male or who does not continue to present and conduct himself as such.”
The petition for membership now requires members to avow that the were born a male and continue as a male.
JR
[1] For the Grand Master’s edict, see: https://www.grandlodgeofvirginia.org/ExecOrd_Proc_All.pdf
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