Boy Scouts ends policy barring transgender boys from boys-only programs
Source: NY Daily News
The Boy Scouts of America will allow transgender boys into all their programs, ending a policy mandating that Cub Scouts must be listed as boys on their birth certificates.
Starting today, we will accept and register youth in the Cub and Boy Scout programs based on the gender identity indicated on the application, the groups director of communications said in a statement to the Daily News.
Our organizations local councils will help find units that can provide for the best interest of the child.
The Texas-based groups decision comes after a northern New Jersey transgender boy is believed to have been the first rejected from a scout pack because of his gender identity.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/boy-scouts-ends-policy-barring-transgender-boys-programs-article-1.2960021
Just in time to contrast with Trump's anticipated homophobic EO!
Ligyron
(7,639 posts)Leave them alone to be what they want to be.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)I am close friends with a lady raising her step grandchildren, originally two girls but one has transitioned to male....and the recent pics I have seen show a boy now, you would not think anything else at all.
Life is hard enough and harder if you are not comfortable in your own skin.
You go Boy Scouts.
riversedge
(70,299 posts)babylonsister
(171,090 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)On the political side; the President of the United States may be on the verge of repealing President Obama's orders outlawing discrimination against LGBT community.
Sources: Trump executive order allowing anti-LGBTQ discrimination is coming soon
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141684041
brooklynite
(94,727 posts)You have to draw the line somewhere...
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)The Scouts have integrated in the UK. Guides are still girls only. Personally I feel if a girl wants to join the Boy Scouts, or vice versa... why not?