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Boy Scouts Will Allow Transgender Children Into Programs
Chicago Tribune ^
| 2 hours ago
| staff reporter
Posted on 01/30/2017 4:32:07 PM PST by drewh
The Boy Scouts of America says it will allow transgender children who identify as boys to enroll in its boys only programs.
The organization announced Monday that it had made the decision to base enrollment in boys only programs on the gender a child or parent lists on the application to become a scout. The organization had previously held a policy that relied on the gender listed on a child's birth certificate.
A spokeswoman for the organization says it made the decision based on states and communities changing how gender is defined.
A transgender child in Secaucus, New Jersey, was asked late last year to leave his Scout troop after parents and leaders found out he is transgender.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: boyscouts; bsa; cubscouts; homosexualagenda; scouting; scouts; transgender
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posted on
01/30/2017 4:32:07 PM PST
by
drewh
To: drewh
Well, the Left has succeeded in destroying the Boy Scouts. Sad.
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posted on
01/30/2017 4:35:23 PM PST
by
Timmy
To: drewh
The article doesn’t say how old this “child” is. I wonder why?
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posted on
01/30/2017 4:36:09 PM PST
by
Not A Snowbird
(SandyInPeoria just doesn't sound right... yet here I am.)
To: drewh
So, a mentally ill girl who claims she is a boy will be allowed to join the Boy Scouts.
Pathetic.
To: Timmy
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posted on
01/30/2017 4:38:18 PM PST
by
drewh
( >)
To: Timmy
Boy scout program was dead already. This is just beating a dead horse.
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posted on
01/30/2017 4:38:48 PM PST
by
JerryBlackwell
(some animals are more equal than others)
To: Timmy
Boy Scouts gone. Caved in.
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posted on
01/30/2017 4:38:56 PM PST
by
ChiMark
(America America)
To: Wallace T.; bert
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posted on
01/30/2017 4:39:58 PM PST
by
NorthMountain
(Washington Post is fake news)
To: ChiMark
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posted on
01/30/2017 4:40:49 PM PST
by
drewh
( >)
To: july4thfreedomfoundation
Unless the Boy Scouts have changed a lot since I was one, “she” is going to be in for a world of hurt.
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posted on
01/30/2017 4:41:06 PM PST
by
bigbob
(We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
To: drewh
Introducing the new, “He’s a Sheila!” Merit badge.
To: aMorePerfectUnion
'boys, meet your new troop leader!'
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posted on
01/30/2017 4:42:06 PM PST
by
drewh
( >)
To: july4thfreedomfoundation
this is what the Boy Scouts are looking for and ain't gonna happen...
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posted on
01/30/2017 4:44:39 PM PST
by
drewh
( >)
To: Timmy
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posted on
01/30/2017 4:44:50 PM PST
by
enduserindy
(I always smile when my competition doubles down on stupid.)
To: drewh
The Boy Scouts of America says it will allow transgender children who identify as boys to enroll in its boys only programs. Why discriminate against boys who identify as feminine tomboys? Only girls in pants and not boys in panties?
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posted on
01/30/2017 4:45:20 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
To: drewh
RIP. Someone or someones with big money has dedicated themselves to destroying the BSA.
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posted on
01/30/2017 4:46:37 PM PST
by
lastchance
(Credo.)
To: JerryBlackwell
This is just beating a dead horse. That's the day they let in sadomasochistic necrophiliac zoophiliacs...
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posted on
01/30/2017 4:46:39 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
To: drewh
Might as well just drop the name “BOY” from scouts and call them socialist brownshirts.
That’s all they are anymore.
Standards? Creeds? Honor? That’s not important to them anymore.
Pity.
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posted on
01/30/2017 4:46:59 PM PST
by
Skywise
To: drewh
Not every Boy Scout Council is destroyed yet. The activists will have to bait and sue a lot of them. Eventually they will destroy the Boy Scouts, though.
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posted on
01/30/2017 4:51:00 PM PST
by
\/\/ayne
(I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
To: drewh
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posted on
01/30/2017 4:54:33 PM PST
by
outofsalt
( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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