Boy wanting to join Girl Scouts told 'no'

Imagine if Girl Scouts were recruited on the basis of their genitalia? What a sick world we would live in.

 

Wow. I think I read about him somewhere else once.

 

I was in girl scouts... I loved it, but a lot of the time it was a little too girly for me... i did love the camping tho!!!!

I can't beleive Bobby wasn't allowed in!!! It's not her fault she was born with a penis! This greatly concerns me...

I wonder what would happen if a "Cindy" tried to join Boy Scouts... Just sayin...

 

It's so sad for a seven year old to say something like that. I had to stop reading for a second...

 

What I don't get is why this is an issue at all. I've heard of the Girl Scouts taking male members who were not transgender, so why wouldn't they take Bobby? My uncle is/used to be (not sure which) a Girl Scout and a Girl Scout leader, and he is not transgender.

I'm glad Bobby was able to join, but I feel sorry for him that he was told no initially and that it made him feel like he was being told he couldn't do the things he likes to do.

 

Not a chance. Boy Scouts doesn't allow gay members or troop leaders, while Girl Scouts does. Girl Scouts is a much more progressive organization, and this whole ordeal was just caused by one confused person, not by bigotry entrenched in the actual organization.

 

that also is in part because boy scouts is basically these days nothing more than an arm of the mormon church, where as the girlscouts are a seperate organization free from religious interference. it is probably because the role of the girlscouts organization is in defiance of mormon views of the role of women, which is not about empowerment.

 

Actually, there might be: in the UK at least, there are several girls in one of my local boy scout troops, and it isn't a big one in a city or anything. Though not the other way around; I'm not sure if this is because people are more OK with boyish girls than girlish boys, or just because no boys are interested in joining girl guides in my town.

 

well, boy scouts of uk are a different group than the Boy Scouts of America which is a specific nation based institution.

 

I agree. It's cute how simply honest kids are at that age and it just makes it that much more heartbreaking when they say something sad.

Bobby has a great mom and I hope the mom knows it. I find it interesting that she knows Bobby identifies as a girl but still uses male pronouns. Perhaps I'm reading too much into things. Either way, Bobby is lucky to have that support.

I was in Boy Scouts for a while, but I was bored out of my mind. I didn't get along with the guys (I still don't get along with guys very well) and they didn't do too much that I was interested in. My sisters were both in Girl Scouts and both my sisters were leaders at one point or another so I just became an honorary Girl Scout. I didn't go to the meetings usually, but I went camping quite often and that's what I wanted. I'm glad that Bobby was allowed to join since that is what her little heart desired.

 

which is in part because that is what the mormon church, which basically is the head now of the boy scouts, handles it. they excommunicate your ass, even though excommunication is anti-christian itself. christ and god never gave any one the right to do it, and it is a forigen concept to the bible itself.

I have a friend who has worked for the BSoA for twenty+ years, and she is looking forward to when she retires so she can fully support LGBT rights, because she has been told that she could be fired if she is caught or seen as a pride event. She was so happy when I came out, and told me to go out and live pride enough for the both of them.

It is a highly internally destructive organization. I went all the way through cub scouts, earning every pin in webalos (or however you spell it), which is no mean feat, and the moment I crossed the bridge into boy scouts, that was the end for me. The organization mistreated me for a year because they basically allowed everyone else to treat me like shit and walk all over me, even though I did 5 times as much work as the rest of the tenderfoots, and I just said "screw it" and left. the mormon kids advanced without effort, and the christian kids did all the mormon kid's work, and they were held back.

I was not shocked to find that alot of other non mormon boy scouts left for the same reason from other troups.

BSoA is run as a private club.

 

I'm so irritated by the videos I've found on this, they keep calling this poor girl a boy. v.v

But thank god, at least one scouts is accepting.

They are so getting cookie money

 

Makes me proud to still be a Girl Scout

 

yahoo had it up as front page news... I choose not to click on it, afraid of the comments section where no matter what the article is about, you will always find some right wing lunatic making everything into a exact copy of nazi style propaganda, with the subject matter either being about how jews are evil, or how obama is a muslim whim wants to eat your chirstian babies foreskins, or how gays are five times more likely to get a woman pregnant...

 

This is sad. If the kid wants to be a girl scout, let him. Thankfully, he was accepted.

 

I was gonna say; when I saw this story a week ago, I read it as saying the girl scouts were happy to accept her and any mtf wanting to join. I spent a couple of years in boy cubs/scouts as well and found I hated it. My sis wasn't a fan of girl scouts either but she doesn't get along with most anybody. Pretty sure she and I were both born in wrong bodies, 3 years apart. Heh...

 

I know a guy who's a girl scout.

They needed another member of the troop, and he officially joined through the main office.

I don't see why there was ever an issue. There is no rule in the girl scouts saying guys can't join, so this case makes even less sense to me.