This year, the child showing up at your door selling Girls Scout cookies may actually be a boy.
Andrea Bastiani Archibald, the group’s “Chief Girl Expert,” writes on GirlScouts.org that the Girl Scouts of America is now making accommodations for transgender boys.
If a girl is recognized by her family, school and community as a girl and lives culturally as a girl, Girl Scouts is an organization that can serve her in a setting that is both emotionally and physically safe. Inclusion of transgender girls is handled at a council level on a case by case basis, with the welfare and best interests of all members as a top priority.
“As we face a complex and rapidly changing 21st century, our nation needs all girls to reach their full potential, which has been our focus for more than 103 years,” she concludes.
While gay groups heralded the announcement, family organizations condemned it.
One Million Moms launched a petition drive, urging the Girl Scouts to reverse its decision.
As a fellow American and one who admires what scouting has done for generations of young women and their communities, I urge you to rescind the GSA policy that allows transgender boys to become members. This policy undermines the trust that parents place in the GSA’s leadership to make wise decisions and the obligation the GSA has to protect their daughters.
Please, stop listening to the few individuals who would use young boys as pawns in the culture war and destroy this organization in the process of advancing their social agenda.
The GSA has the constitutional right to govern and restrict its youth membership only to biological girls…and for the sake of its future, it should.
The Edge Media Network notes some, like radio hosts Kevin Swanson and Dave Buehner, are taking action by not buying Girl Scout cookies this year.
“The individualism of feminism has been devastating to this country. I’d say you ought to say no to the Girl Scout cookies too,” Swanson said during a recent broadcast. “I don’t want to support lesbianism, I don’t want to support Planned Parenthood and I don’t want to support abortion, and if that be the case I’m not buying Girl Scout cookies.”
It wouldn’t be the first time the Girls Scouts waded into thorny ideological issues.
Life News reported in 2013 that the group works with Planned Parenthood, as well.
It provided these examples as proof:
- Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas, Girl Scouts Gateway Council and Girl Scouts of Western New York, alongside Planned Parenthood, maintain memberships in coalitions and/or serve on committees for groups which advocate for abortion rights or comprehensive sex-ed.
- Girl Scouts of Western New York works with Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion groups in programs aimed at tween/teen girls to reduce teen pregnancy.
- Girl Scouts of Northern California refers “at risk” girls to Planned Parenthood for help with family planning.
- Girl Scouts of San Diego featured a Planned Parenthood “Community Engagement Manager” as a speaker and role model at an event for girl members.
” … local councils also award and honor pro-abortion politicians and abortion rights advocates such as Texas Senator Wendy Davis, recent New York mayoral candidate Christine Quinn, Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger awardee Dolores Huerta and others,” according to Life News.
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