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Girl Scouts Shut Down Critics of Transgender Members
yahoo ^ | may 21, 2015 | beth greenfield

Posted on 05/21/2015 12:00:57 PM PDT by lowbridge

Those pint-sized radical feminists also known as the Girl Scouts are in trouble again — this time for their transgender-inclusion policy — and they’ve wasted no time in shutting down the haters. Though the national organization has formally accepted transgender girls into its ranks since 2012, it seems one conservative organization has either just heard the news or has been stewing about it ever since.

“A new Girl Scouts of America (GSA) policy states it will extend membership to boys who identify as girls,” notes the website of the American Family Association, a Christian-morals organization that’s been labeled an anti-LGBT hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. “This means girls in the organization will be forced to recognize and accept transgenderism as a normal lifestyle. Boys in skirts, boys in make-up and boys in tents will become a part of the program. This change will put young innocent girls at risk.” The AFA then invites people to join the 38,000 who have so far signed its petition against the Girl Scouts’ policy.

The Girl Scouts, meanwhile, were quick to fire back in this latest chapter of its transgender-policy saga. “Girl Scouts has valued and supported all girls since our inception in 1912. There is not one type of girl. Every girl’s sense of self, path to it, and how she is supported is unique,” wrote developmental psychologist and Girl Scouts’ “chief girl expert” Andrea Bastiani Archibald on the GSA blog. “If a girl is recognized by her family, school and community as a girl and lives culturally as a girl, Girl Scouts is an organization that can serve her in a setting that is both emotionally and physically safe.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afa; girlscouts; gsa; homosexualagenda; moralabsolutes
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To: lowbridge

The haters?

“In a Time of Universal Deceit — Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act” -George Orwell


41 posted on 05/21/2015 12:28:40 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: GraceG

So I guess GSA is right.


42 posted on 05/21/2015 12:29:22 PM PDT by all the best
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To: wideawake

LOL!


43 posted on 05/21/2015 12:29:23 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: The_Republic_Of_Maine

If they are selling our front of the grocery store I go into the store, buy some of the keebler equivalents and flash the boxes to them as I walk on my way out of the store.

That really pisses them off


44 posted on 05/21/2015 12:30:39 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

[ I just watched a pro life demonstration in Austin, TX. And like clockwork, the commies showed up to block the signs. They hate free speech. ]

I saw that too, some of the commie people there seemed demon possessed


45 posted on 05/21/2015 12:31:18 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: lowbridge
O'Sullivan's Law.
46 posted on 05/21/2015 12:32:05 PM PDT by denydenydeny ("World History is not full of good governments, or of good voters either "--P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: Rodamala

Only one. But they do have to change the sign out front frequently.


47 posted on 05/21/2015 12:32:30 PM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: lowbridge
There is not one type of girl.

Especially since some of them are really boys.

48 posted on 05/21/2015 12:33:42 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: greene66

People in China are willing to die to attend church and here we are letting BOYS (they are not girls) into the girl scouts.
I still think more than half the country is sane, not by much, but it leaves some hope.


49 posted on 05/21/2015 12:34:44 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: all the best

[ So I guess GSA is right. ]

I was just being nit-picky, the thing is if the child was born with a physical “block and tackle” so to speak then they shouldn’t join the girl scouts or other exclusively girl organizations.

But the exceptions I pointed out are like 1 in 10,000 or so.


50 posted on 05/21/2015 12:36:52 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: lowbridge
I read things like this and think of my wife asking me why I am adamantly against my 6 year old daughter joining GSA, or my 2.5 year old boy joining BSA.

I'll have her read this when she gets home and she'll get it.
51 posted on 05/21/2015 12:41:06 PM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. – Robert Heinlein)
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To: lowbridge

It comes down to this... The left won the culture war. It truly is over.


52 posted on 05/21/2015 12:41:48 PM PDT by ScottinVA (The election of Obama was a hate crime.)
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To: wideawake

Very Good


53 posted on 05/21/2015 12:42:07 PM PDT by TYVets
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To: lowbridge

“There is not one type of girl.”

Yes, there is.
The type of girl born with a vagina.


54 posted on 05/21/2015 12:42:46 PM PDT by servo1969
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To: lowbridge
“There is not one type of girl.”

There is also no type of girl who is not biologically female.

55 posted on 05/21/2015 12:43:43 PM PDT by circlecity
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To: dp0622

I’m not sure what the exact “sane-versus-insane” percentage is in this country. But one thing I do know is that the “sane” has apparently surrendered, and completely ceded all the power to the “insane.”

“America-2015” belongs in a padded cell.


56 posted on 05/21/2015 12:44:12 PM PDT by greene66
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To: lowbridge

Girl Scout Alternatives
http://tamarawilhite.hubpages.com/hub/Girl-Scout-Alternatives


57 posted on 05/21/2015 12:45:03 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: lowbridge

They’re not interested in shutting down the haters. They’re interested in shutting down the Scouts.


58 posted on 05/21/2015 12:50:36 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: RinaseaofDs

In the Soviet Union, Lysenkoism replaced Mendel’s genetics, and they suffered massive famines while promising miracles.

Today, global warming / climate change is to blame for every weather outcome and justify any decision.

In the USSR, psychology was politicized, so that those who didn’t see that they lived in paradise on Earth could be locked up and medicated and tortured without even a show trial.

Today, conservatives are routinely considered “crazy” if not downright dangerous, while a man who says he’s a woman gets to wear a dress and get celebrated for proving there’s no difference between men and women, despite the male appendage between his legs.

In the Soviet Union, political officers ensured that only those who met a long checklist of political views held jobs of any importance.

Today, social justice warriors ensure that only PC views are expressed online while ridiculing or labeling as spam and hate sites that don’t to get them taken down.
In the name of tolerance, dissent isn’t permitted. Likewise, Human Resources departments apply the same monitoring of the workplace and punish those who express non-PC views, in the name of tolerance and preventing harassment. Don’t toe the line in public, get banned, don’t toe the line in private, lose your job.
So SJW and HR are the new political officers.


59 posted on 05/21/2015 12:50:50 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: greene66

Sane vs. insane lol. It’s gotten that bad.

I do know if they tried to put a boy in a girl’s group on Staten Island, we’d show up with pitchforks :)

But after seeing what happened in Texas, it would be VERY hard to defend against a government army enforcing one insane law after another.

The bikers were dangerous and wrong in what they did, but skilled marksmen, maybe thousands out there, enforcing Obama’s laws, that’s a scary thought.


60 posted on 05/21/2015 12:51:44 PM PDT by dp0622
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