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When your community group can't agree on addressing disruptive behavior

Our community group is dealing with someone who keeps interrupting and talking over women in meetings, and we can't decide whether to ask them to leave or invest in helping them change their behavior.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Inclusive spaces struggle when protecting some members seems to require excluding others, forcing impossible choices about belonging.

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