The boys solely membership coverage of Kirkcudbright Burns Membership may quickly be consigned to historical past.
Since being based the membership has retained its standing of being an all-male area.
However at its final AGM members agreed to carry a vote on altering the membership structure and lengthen membership to girls.
And now a secret poll will happen on the membership’s annual Burns Supper on January 25.
Membership committee member Ian McIntyre, a former Robert Burns World Federation president, mentioned: “The choice to carry a vote has come from the members of Kirkcudbright Burns Membership themselves.
“That’s the correct place for it to come back from.
“People will flip up for our supper and get their poll papers.
“There can be no debate on the night – it will likely be a straight poll.”
A vote in favour on the supper would imply the times of a person making the Reply to the Toast to the Lassies are over.
Historically in a blended supper the speech provides girls the possibility to get their very own again on their male counterparts.
In accordance with Mr McIntyre, the world’s three oldest Burns golf equipment – Kilmarnock, the Burns Membership of London and Greenock – are all blended golf equipment.
Traditionally Kirkcudbright membership has been all male – however in its 2018 centenary yr then president Gordon Halliday found that early on girls attended suppers repeatedly however weren't members.
Mr McIntyre mentioned: “I feel Burns himself would view this as a progressive transfer.
“There may be this view that he was misogynistic. However within the Theatre Royal in Dumfries he wrote the Rights of Lady which was fairly floor breaking for its day.
“I feel he had a fairly balanced view of girls.
“There’s little question he was a republican and a progressive and a person of his occasions.
“However occasions have modified and endlessly.”
The Burns Supper on the Arden Home Resort would be the first for 3 years following the pandemic.
President Alistair Crawford would be the chairman for the night.
Vice-president, retired Church of Scotland minister Rev Graham Finch, who's an achieved Burnsian and after dinner speaker, will ship The Immortal Reminiscence.
Tickets for the 2023 supper will go on sale in early January, priced at £18.
Purposes for membership are at all times welcome and will be made to honorary secretary Dr John Locke through the membership web site, kirkcudbrightburnsclub.org
Prizes are donated to winners of every self-discipline and this yr the membership has introduced a brand new prize class for Main 7 pupils.