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.”
Isn’t there another Girls group she can join? Or start? ahgonline.org
Remember this before you buy any of those overpriced girl scout cookies.
“even if they are genderfluid”
Aw, come on. Surely you’re old enough by now to know what genderfluid is? It’s that sticky stuff that ...
If you people keep making me go to my Safe Space, I am going to run out of Bourbon.
So I googled “genderfluid” and was blown away... then I came across the term “cisgendered”. That knocked me off my feet.
Enabling deviance is what queers have promoted for centuries, but sexual abuse of children is what drives them to obsession. Even in Ancient Rome and before civilization was established, these perverts were having their way with children. To call this progress is an insult to the modern, civilized world.
The queers are being allowed to set the narrative and define the language.
God help those children. This is sick.
No they don't, unless they're homosexuals, in which case they have a mangina.
LOL!
That deserves repeating.
It's also evil, and it needs to be named as such.
Interesting. Can you provide references? There is that massive, international meta-study out there that concluded homosexuality is not passed along genetically. I realize that what you are saying is not necessarily genetic in nature. I understand that all embryos start out female but some are converted into males later during gestation.
“Mom, I really love little boys who
want to be girls. So much so, that
I want to go to that “Pride Troop”
that I’ve been hearing so much about.
I want to support little boys who
think they are girls. It’s beautiful
and natural.”
Possible?
No, the girls are being used by their
parents to make a disgusting political
point. Shame on them.
You can google up references if you like. This is a well-documented phenomenon. I do not think the ‘never getting the testosterone bath in the uterus’ is the only type of homosexual. I know there is a lot of homosexual molestation going on. And there are also plenty of prison homos. But I am talking about your good old fashioned fairy here.
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