The girls are joining the BSA because the GSA sucks! The BS do cool stuff like go camping and the likes. The GS just push birth control and selling cookies to support PP.
Truth.
So fix the girls organization, don’t ruin our thing.
Our daughter’s Girl Scout Troop did some great camping expeditions and I got to go along as a Dad chaperone (which was interesting).
Girl Scouts and my outings with her really influenced her love of the outdoors. Last year she hiked the 210 mile John Muir Trail in California most of the time solo. The vast majority of the JMT is situated in wilderness and passes through large swaths of alpine and high mountain scenery. It lies almost entirely above 8,000 feet with a cumulative 50,000 vertical feet of climbing. She ended it with an ascent of Mt. Whitney at 14,000 feet.
This past weekend she, her boyfriend and another couple backpacked the 32 mile Skyline to the Sea Trail near Santa Cruz, CA.
Which is how the BSA will turn out, now that the girls have arrived. Instead of fixing the girl scouts they are breaking the boy scouts. You have to break a few eggs if you want an omelet.
Girl Scout Alternatives
https://wehavekids.com/youth-programs/Girl-Scout-Alternatives
And guess what? Just like immigrants fleeing sh*tholes, and then turning their new home into the same, the girls will demand the BSA change to be more "accommodating" and "inclusive", and wind up completing the destruction of the BSA.
It would have been better if some girl scout troop leaders just decided to learn camping skills, and go do that, regardless of what National leadership pushed.
As foreigners fill this country, scouting (and many other trappings of the America of 50 years ago) is disappearing; groups are consolidating, campgrounds sold off, etc.. The “replacement Americans” are far too leery to send their children off overnight with an unrelated adult, and Americans that do bother to have children no longer have much interest.
Like churches, these groups are just circling the drain; fewer people have the time and/or interest in maintaining them.