Posted on 04/17/2015 6:13:55 AM PDT by wagglebee
SALT LAKE CITY, UT, April 17, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- The Girl Scouts are once again kicking up controversy with their “progressive” approach to sexuality, this time by starting a brand new troop aimed at gay and lesbian families and boys who consider themselves “transgender” – in other words, boys who believe they are girls trapped in biologically male bodies.
"As long as a youth identifies as a girl or with girls, even if they are genderfluid on the day that they registered, then they can become a Girl Scout," said Shari Solomon-Klebba, the Utah Girl Scout outreach coordinator responsible for Salt Lake City’s first sexuality-based troop, in an interview with KUTV.
The troop had its first meeting on Monday at the homosexual “Utah Pride Center” in socially conservative Salt Lake City – home of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (more frequently referred to as Mormonism), which has repeatedly clashed with gay activists over its traditional teachings on marriage and sexuality.
KUTV reported that five children attended the meeting, all biological girls ranging from age 6 to 11. They met in a “game room” at the Pride Center, where a box of condoms sat on the table and a nearby sign read: “Some boys have vaginas.” (Pride Center director Sheila Raboy later told KUTV that leaving those items visible to the children was an “oversight.” She said they would be hidden away during future meetings.)
Solomon-Klebba, an open lesbian who is raising a young daughter with her partner, Cindy – whom she “married” in Utah in December – told KUER she started the troop to help kids like her daughter avoid the emotional discomfort that being around traditional families can often cause them.
“Because sometimes, you know, that stigma of having parents that are a little bit different, you know, that fall outside of the norm. That can always be a little bit awkward,” Solomon-Klebba explained to KUER.
Utah Pride Center director Sheila Raboy agreed. By joining a troop where non-traditional sexualities are the focus, she told the Associated Press, “these girls will be able to enjoy the Girl Scouts the way girls who are from regular, heterosexual families are able to enjoy it.”
Although no biological boys attended the troop’s first meeting, Raboy told the AP she expects some to join soon. Currently, the troop is open to any child in Kindergarten through 12th grade who “identifies” as a girl, regardless of biological sex.
The troop’s leaders say that if the group grows, they will split it up into age-based groups, but until then, camping trips could prove controversial, as teenage boys and very young girls are both eligible to join. According to the Girl Scouts’ website, situations in which biologically male Girl Scouts have tried to participate in camping trips are “rare,” and as such, there is no set policy regarding the matter. Rather, the organization recommends local councils “[make] similar accommodation that schools across the country follow in regard to changing, sleeping arrangements, and other travel-related activities.”
The Utah Pride Center troop is believed to be the first of its kind to focus especially on the sexual preferences of its members and their families; however, it is not the first troop to accept transgender members. A troop in Colorado was at the center of a nationwide controversy in 2011 after an adult leader, unaware of the organization’s national policy welcoming any child who “identifies” as a girl, refused to allow a 7-year-old boy named Bobby Montoya to join. The state leadership quickly stepped in to overrule the individual’s decision, but the publicity surrounding the case sparked boycotts and mass resignations, as many Girl Scouts and their families around the country had previously been unaware of the transgender policy and strongly opposed it.
According to the Girl Scouts’ website, “Placement of transgender youth is handled on a case-by-case basis, with the welfare and best interests of the child and the members of the troop/group in question a top priority. That said, if the child is recognized by the family and school/community as a girl and lives culturally as a girl, then Girl Scouts is an organization that can serve her in a setting that is both emotionally and physically safe.”
It’s amazing how inconsistent the thinking of liberals are.
They say that girls like wearing dresses and playing with dolls because they were trained that way, and it has nothing to do with being a girl.
YET, if a boy wants to wear dresses and play with dolls, that makes him a girl.
WTF is gender fluid???
If they are doing addadicktamee’s and what not on kids, Dr’s (and I use that term loosely) need to start loosing licenses.
“Because sometimes, you know, that stigma of having parents that are a little bit different”
Let me clear that up a tad for you, you are not a little bit different, you are off the scales different.
Freak shows are poppin’ up all over the country these days.
DNA has nothing to do with your sex. Logic and reason are demons of the patriarchy.
It’s how you FEEL.
Juliette Gordon Low must be turning over in her grave frequently these days.
There is more to it than just X and Y chromosomes. The critical factor in creating a male brain and nervous system is the level of testosterone in the uterine environment. This process doesn’t always go smoothly and as a result you have XY’s with a female brain and nervous system - your classic male homosexual.
Sounds like the GSA is doing choppadicoffamies now.
When I was a Scout fifty years ago we thought the Girl Scout leaders looked rather butch, even on their calendars the leaders looked hulking.
Right next to it, another sign read "Up is down. Weakness is strength. Wrong is right." And over the entrance to the facility, a large sign made in crude iron letters spelled out "Arbeit Macht Frei."
“SALT LAKE CITY, UT, April 17, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) — The Girl Scouts are once again kicking up controversy with their “progressive” approach to sexuality, this time by starting a brand new troop aimed at gay and lesbian families and boys who consider themselves “transgender” – in other words, boys who believe they are girls trapped in biologically male bodies.”
Good for them. Every one of those groups should start gay troops. This way the straight troops won’t have to deal with the drama.
When people are mentally ill they need to be treated for it and one of the therapeutic benefits of acting properly is that a person starts to feel better.
GSA is now DEAD.
About four years ago I quit buying Girl Scout cookies because they really did something that was leftist. I can’t recall the particular event, but I haven’t missed the treats all that much.
GS have been pushing a progressive agenda for years. All fueled by their cookie sales. P.S. There is not a supermarket in America that does not sells cookies. And not all that hard to bake oneself.
this!
It breaks my heart to tell my girl she can’t join Girl Scouts for this very reason (and the Planned Parenthood). She wants to join so bad.
well, I don’t think so
they say “all politics is local”
well, all GS TROOPS are local and run by volunteers who don’t have to put up with any crap they choose not to put up with
There is a HUGE and GROWING disconnect between the membership and the out of control PC morons running the national organization, if they think 99.9% of American Moms are going to put their little (or big) girl in a group that has condoms on the meeting room table and lets boys camp and dress and undress and pee in camp bathrooms beside their daughters, whether they sit or stand
I would not be surprised to see a schism that will lead to a split
and while national has the brand and NY real estate, we have the numbers
Hard to keep up, isn’t it?
And what makes your classic female lesbian? Or your classic bisexual?
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