Girls Scouts say yes to the BOY who wants to join them

[notmeanymore]

I feel like I'm the only person on GBAtemp disturbed by this.

1. Boy Scouts were pretty bigoted, but that's the leadership, not the churches. The churches are over the packs, but the District is over them both. All the corruption came from the District.
2. No one was molested in my pack or district. You folks live in messed up parts of the country. Louisiana at least has some morals, in that sense.
3. I would in no way feel comfortable with a boy being in my daughter's Girl Scout group. (Assuming I had a daughter) I wouldn't pull her out, but I wouldn't be comfortable with it.
4. Girls in the Boy Scouts also bothers me, though not to the extent of a boy in Girl Scouts. Now, if I were the parent of said girl, I wouldn't like that simply because my girl would be at all times surrounded by a bunch of boy scouts (and I know how they are, having been one myself lol).

And in comes the hate/rebukes.

 

[Oveneise]

Yeah... but its GIRL scouts. I mean... it's great he likes all those things, that's fine, but... he has a penis. Just saying.

 

[yusuo]

TehSkull, I completely agree with you, I've got a daughter and I wouldn't let her join if there were boys there.

I don't know why though, I think its basically because its one of the few activities left that are single sex and being a boy myself I don't trust us as far as I can throw us, even at 7 I was playing doctor with girls and well discovering things. Nothing seedy, not at that age anyway but I would rather keep my daughters innocence as long as I possibly can.

If it was my choice she would die a virgin lol

 

[Midna]

Haha, no need to respect Christianity around me. Not my thing.

Yeah, let's tell people not to respect other peoples' beliefs. Good job!

Not to mention he didn't even mention Christianity at all. There's other religions that believe in Creationism.

He was acting as if he had accidentally offended me and was posting in a very apologetic manor. Your inferences were not my intentions. I just wanted to clarify that he had not offended me.

 

[ProtoKun7]

>Boy
>Girl Scouts

...perfect sense, this makes.
(That's assuming joining Scouts makes sense to begin with)

 

[_Chaz_]

Equal opportunity for males? NOT IN MY COUNTRY YOU DON'T!

 

[JoostinOnline]

This is stupid. Just because it would make a boy happy to join the girl scouts, that doesn't mean you have to say yes.

 

[KingVamp]

>Boy
>Girl Scouts

...perfect sense, this makes.
(That's assuming joining Scouts makes sense to begin with)

Well base on how he she had to get in, he she not a boy.
>Girl (in a boy body)
>Girl Scouts
... Check!

Seriously tho, I got nothing a against LGBT, but sometimes it is annoying(?) to figure what to call someone (pronoun wise).

Also apparently the word queer seem to be coming acceptable now. Funny how that works.
There even a queer gender.

I didn't like to call someone that in general. Even if it's a good thing.

 

[JoostinOnline]

You can't be a girl in a boy's body, you are just a boy who acts like a girl. Besides, the makes no mention of him "being a girl"

 

[Deleted_171835]

>Boy
>Girl Scouts

...perfect sense, this makes.
(That's assuming joining Scouts makes sense to begin with)

Well base on how he she had to get in, he she not a boy.
>Girl (in a boy body)
>Girl Scouts
... Check!

Except for the fact that enjoying what is generally regarded as female toys doesn't make you a girl.

 

[KingVamp]

Am I misreading?

But today, the Girl Scouts of Colorado said it made a mistake when it rejected Bobby’s application to join.The Girl Scouts issued a statement to KUSA saying that a worker unfamiliar with the group's policies gave Bobby’s family wrong information.
In a statement, the group said: 'If a child identifies as a girl and the child's family presents her as a girl, Girl Scouts of Colorado welcomes her as a Girl Scout.
'In this case, an associate delivering our program was not aware of our approach. She contacted her supervisor, who immediately began working with the family to get the child involved and supported in Girl Scouts.

 

[Deleted_171835]

Am I misreading?

But today, the Girl Scouts of Colorado said it made a mistake when it rejected Bobby’s application to join.The Girl Scouts issued a statement to KUSA saying that a worker unfamiliar with the group's policies gave Bobby’s family wrong information.
In a statement, the group said: 'If a child identifies as a girl and the child's family presents her as a girl, Girl Scouts of Colorado welcomes her as a Girl Scout.
'In this case, an associate delivering our program was not aware of our approach. She contacted her supervisor, who immediately began working with the family to get the child involved and supported in Girl Scouts.

Yes, those terms were only brought up to indicate that the 'Girl Scouts' gave the family the wrong information. The article doesn't state that the child identifies himself as a girl.

 

[JoostinOnline]

Am I misreading?

But today, the Girl Scouts of Colorado said it made a mistake when it rejected Bobby’s application to join.The Girl Scouts issued a statement to KUSA saying that a worker unfamiliar with the group's policies gave Bobby’s family wrong information.
In a statement, the group said: 'If a child identifies as a girl and the child's family presents her as a girl, Girl Scouts of Colorado welcomes her as a Girl Scout.
'In this case, an associate delivering our program was not aware of our approach. She contacted her supervisor, who immediately began working with the family to get the child involved and supported in Girl Scouts.

Yes, those terms were only brought up to indicate that the 'Girl Scouts' gave the family the wrong information. The article doesn't state that the child identifies himself as a girl.

And the mother says "He" in the interview, not "She". You know why? Because Bobby IS A BOY!

 

[Deleted_171835]

I actually believe in Alien intervention lol.

 

[Hells Malice]

You can't be a girl in a boy's body, you are just a boy who acts like a girl. Besides, the makes no mention of him "being a girl"

Yeah he just apparently acts like a girl, likes girl things, does girl things and apparently even looks like a girl.
Pre-12 there is very little difference between a boy and a girl to make a fuss over.
Kid gets bullied by boys as well.
I'm sure Bobby would have a blast getting the crap beat out of him by the boys in boy scouts.

You have to be a special kind of ignorant to find a problem with him being allowed to join the girl scouts.

 

[JoostinOnline]

You can't be a girl in a boy's body, you are just a boy who acts like a girl. Besides, the makes no mention of him "being a girl"

Yeah he just apparently acts like a girl, likes girl things, does girl things and apparently even looks like a girl.
Pre-12 there is very little difference between a boy and a girl to make a fuss over.
Kid gets bullied by boys as well.
I'm sure Bobby would have a blast getting the crap beat out of him by the boys in boy scouts.

You have to be a special kind of ignorant to find a problem with him being allowed to join the girl scouts.

He doesn't have to join the boy scouts, but he identifies as a boy and his mother identifies him as a boy (albeit one who dresses like a girl), so there isn't any reason for him to force his way into the GIRL scouts.

 

[DeathStrudel]

This isn't really news. They let boys in girl scouts, and they let girls in boy scouts, it's been like that for a while. Like most people/organizations, they don't want to get sued. They only reason this made the news is because at first they said no, which they explained was a mistake.

And all the people talking shit about boy scouts obviously know nothing about it beyond what they've heard in the news. I'm both bisexual and an atheist but that didn't stop me from being a boy scout because I didn't make a big deal about it. It's not like I kept it a secret but I didn't go around talking about it all the time either. The only rule against stuff like that is you can't go around telling everybody, it's not like they can kick you out because they think you're gay or they think you're an atheist.

Those cookies are like goddamn crack cocaine.

I know, those damn Samosas...cant stop eating them...must always buy them.

Seriously Guild, when will you ever cease being awesome!?

Do you have to suck up to staff every chance you get?

There's no way I'm the only one who notices this.

 

[Gahars]

Did anyone else here see the Penn and Teller Bullshit! episode on the Boy Scouts? Their show, though sometimes pretty inaccurate and prone to hyperbole on occasion (it's kind of their thing), but when they hit the mark, they really hit the mark. If not, you should definitely check it out; it's pretty easy to find on youtube. It was a pretty eye opening episode.

As for the news... I'm glad that he will be able to join the club of his choosing. Still, I think people are treating the troop leader who denied him originally too harshly. The confusion over what to do is perfectly understandable, as was his decision.

Not necessarily correct, mind you, just understandable.

 

[Aurora Wright]

>Boy
>Girl Scouts

...perfect sense, this makes.
(That's assuming joining Scouts makes sense to begin with)

It seems you've some sort of issue with trans-people. Go read my blog, Sheimi's or Mirby's, maybe you'll get a remote idea of what we go through.

 

[Foxi4]

>Boy
>Girl Scouts

...perfect sense, this makes.
(That's assuming joining Scouts makes sense to begin with)

It seems you've some sort of issue with trans-people. Go read my blog, Sheimi's or Mirby's, maybe you'll get a remote idea of what we go through.

...are you "a bit slow in the head"? It's a 12-year old - it's not a trans-person, it's a child that's being hurt by his parents. He's very much a boy, identifies himself as a boy, he's just bullied by other boys so his retarded parents decided that the best cure would be to put him in a group of *girl* scouts. You know, because he's not ridiculed enough.