Girl Scout Troops Disbands Over Admission of Transgender Child

• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2011-12-26 06:07

  A Colorado-based Girl Scouts troop's decision to admit a 7-year-old transgender child this fall has prompted three leaders to resign and dissolve their troops.
  
  As The Christian Post is reporting, all three of the troop leaders were affiliated with the Northlake Christian School in Covington, Louisiana.
  
  Susan Bryant-Snure, one of the leaders who resigned, told The Baptist Press that the Girl Scouts' action is "extremely confusing" and an "almost dangerous situation" for children. "This goes against what we [Northlake Christian School] believe," said Bryant-Snure, who has three daughters among the 25 girls who had been active scouts there.
  
  The controversy began when Felisha Archuleta protested against a Denver troop's decision to not initially allow her transgender daughter, Bobby Montoya, to join the group. "I believe he was born in the wrong body," Archuleta, who also confessed to having difficulty switching from male to female pronouns when discussing her child, told ABC. "But the Girl Scout leader told us he can't join because he has 'boy parts.'... But no one would know he's a boy unless they pulled his pants down."
  
  The Girl Scouts of Colorado subsequently released a statement through the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) in support of Archuleta and her excluded daughter, noting, "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."
  
  Added Rachelle Trujillo, vice president for communications of the Colorado Girl Scouts: "If a child is living as a girl, that's good enough for us. We don't require any proof of gender."
  
  Bryant-Snure and her fellow leaders are now expected to align themselves with the American Heritage Girls, a Christian organization that was founded in 1995 in response to the Girl Scouts' decision to let scouts use a word other than "God" in their pledge, according to She Wired.

  
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/21/girl-scout-troops-transgender-child-disband_n_1163971.html?ref=gay-voices
  
  Video v
  http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2011/10/25/dnt-boy-wants-to-be-a-girl-scout.kusa
  
  the mother is very supportive
  nice for parents to help kids
  
  those troop leaders who left can stay out of Girl Scouts
• Cynic wrote on 2011-12-26 06:22
  I remember seeing this on Tumblr a few days ago.
  
  Good riddance.
• EndlessDreams wrote on 2011-12-26 06:37
  Not a surprise. Those Boy/Girl Scout groups usually consists of highly conservative Christians.
• Zid wrote on 2011-12-26 06:39
  Disbanding their troops... Poor girls being separated from one another.
  
  

  Bryant-Snure and her fellow leaders are now expected to align themselves with the American Heritage Girls, a Christian organization that was founded in 1995 in response to the Girl Scouts' decision to let scouts use a word other than "God" in their pledge, according to She Wired.

  
  
  In my opinion, confusing name to call this group.
• Taycat wrote on 2011-12-26 08:00
  I never liked the girl scouts.
  
  Never.
• abc33kr wrote on 2011-12-26 08:09
  wait a 7 year old getting a gender change?
  something seems wrong there...
  
  "I believe he was born in the wrong body,"
  so the parents changed the child's gender just because of the parents' belief?
  
  The article needs more info on that. Right now it seems like the parents are terrible people.
  I'm not sure if they had legitimate reasons to change gender or not.
• BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2011-12-26 08:13
  the child likes being a girl
  and so the parents followed that
  
  in the video, she liked dressing up as a girl and being one
• abc33kr wrote on 2011-12-26 08:17

  Quote from BobYoMeowMeow;706759:

  the child likes being a girl
  and so the parents followed that
  
  in the video, she liked dressing up as a girl and being one

  
  
  :o
  in that case, that's fine.
  Although I hope she doesn't have any regrets in the future.
• Cynic wrote on 2011-12-26 08:44
  So much ignorant transphobia..
  
  There is no "He thinks he's a girl" or "He likes being a girl" he IS a girl.
  
  The parents are only doing what they must to help the child through her difficult time of being born with a sexual deformation, if you will.
• Spartaaaaa wrote on 2011-12-26 17:34
  So why wouldn't it make sense for the girl scouts to not want to admit someone who's clearly not a girl?
• Chiyuri wrote on 2011-12-26 17:42

  Quote from Spartaaaaa;707058:

  So why wouldn't it make sense for the girl scouts to not want to admit someone who's clearly not a girl?

  
  
  So why does it make sense for the girl scouts to not admit someone who's (possibly) a girl?
• paladin wrote on 2011-12-26 17:47

  Quote from Spartaaaaa;707058:

  So why wouldn't it make sense for the girl scouts to not want to admit someone who's clearly not a girl?

  
  
  coming from Spartaa no surpise
  It never said it she was not clearly a girl
  It even said no one would know unless they pantsed her
• Micho wrote on 2011-12-26 17:49

  Quote from Spartaaaaa;707058:

  So why wouldn't it make sense for the girl scouts to not want to admit someone who's clearly not a girl?

  
  
  . . . But she is a girl. I mean look at her, how more of a girl can she get? Sure biologically she's a boy, but when I first saw the kid I thought she was a girl! She's wearing boots for crying out loud. Most people might argue that this is "just a phase" or that "once puberty hits, he'll grow out of it", but I'm pretty she's a girl, and she'll stay a girl.
  
  She wants to be a girl scout, let her be a girl scout.
• Spartaaaaa wrote on 2011-12-26 18:02
  Regardless of how delusional he is, the fact is that he is still a boy. This is basic biology that even little children understand.
• Chiyuri wrote on 2011-12-26 18:08

  Quote from Spartaaaaa;707100:

  Regardless of how delusional he is, the fact is that he is still a boy. This is basic biology that even little children understand.

  
  
  
  If basic biology was all that mattered in the world, just go rape some girls to reproduce yourself as much as you can....
  
  Anyway.. go get a master degree in psychology then comeback to complain to us about how that person is "delusional".. Maybe the world will agree with you more on that matter.