Lineaged Wicca is organised into covens of initiated priests and priestesses. McFarland went on to initiate several high priestesses who hived off to start other covens. While some McFarland covens will initiate men, the leadership is limited to female priestesses. This is the form of the blessing used by most Gardnerian and Alexandrian covens. Transgender people are almost always welcomed in individual communities, covens, study groups, and circles. The Covenant is a confederation of member covens and solitaires. Some have private ceremonies at home, while others do so with their covens. Other covens were subsequently founded in Arequipa and Tacna. Pearson noted that covens typically contained between five and ten initiates. Covens in the Reclaiming tradition are often single sex and non-hierarchical in structure. Some of these covens reject transgender people who were assigned male at birth. By 1965 he claimed 1,623 initiates in 100 covens. In traditional Gardnerian magic, there was as an established idea of covens. Most covens would not admit members under the age of 18. Some covens are short-lived but others have survived for many years.