Girl Scouts open to transgender members

[NCTraveler]

The Girl Scouts’ mission is to build “girls of courage, confidence, and character,” whether they were born as females, or just identify as such.

In a blog post on the organization’s site published May 14, Andrea Bastiani Archibald, Ph.D., identified as ‘Chief Girl Expert’ for the GSUSA, wrote:


“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.”

The post continued to add that we’re in a “complex and rapidly changing 21st century,” and the needs of the nation’s young girls are changing as well.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2015/05/21/girl-scouts-open-transgender-members/R8JxIuEJho7RlQVWHfwuNK/story.html?p1=menu_news_main

[NCTraveler]

1. Kick. nt.

[BeeBee]

2. Good for them! n/t

[LostOne4Ever]

3. I don't care if I am on a diet....

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]Next time I see a girl scout selling cookies I am going to buy a gazillion of them!!!

These girls are everything that is right with America!

The American Family Association can go FUCK itself.[/font]

[NCTraveler]

4. The American Family Association can go FUCK itself.

Perfect.

[FLPanhandle]

5. Why not just combine Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts into a single Scouts organization

No reason to have two organizations.

[NCTraveler]

6. I think they would have a very difficult time doing so.

I do think your idea often works all across the country on a smaller scale, yet their is segregation in all of them. Summer camps. Many of those are hard to afford as they often pay staffers. Boy and girl scouts are still affordable to the masses.

[City Lights]

7. Way to go, Girl Scouts!