Hey, Boy Scouts, did you really think knuckling under to the Social Left was going to enhance your viability as an organization? You’re losing membership, and the Girl Scouts (a left-wing cookie distributing organization aligned with Planned Parenthood) are warning you not to poach any girls.
“I formally request that your organization stay focused on serving the 90 percent of American boys not currently participating in Boy Scouts … and not consider expanding to recruit girls,” wrote GSUSA President Kathy Hopinkah Hannan in a letter sent this week to the president of the Boy Scouts of America, Randall Stephenson.
Top leaders of the two youth organizations, both struggling to stem membership declines, conferred this month about possibilities for coordination. But Hopinkah Hannan, in her letter, said she came away from that discussion feeling the Boy Scouts had already committed to an expansion of coed programs that would damage the Girl Scouts.
The Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts should just merge and become the Socially Conscious Organizations United to Transform Society (SCOUTS) and indoctrinate the youth that boys suck and girls are wonderful; which will put them in line with public education and children’s TV programming .
In related news (related in the sense that both involve the Left’s War on Masculinity and were both in the sidebar at Ace’s), did you know that every transitioning transgender soldier in the US military will have to miss at least 238 days of service while they recover from their physical mutilation? So, yeah, it appears this is a readiness issue, not a discrimination issue.
BTW: The Olympic Committee has decided to let men who claim to be women compete in women’s events.
Following up on that nutjob charter school in California that’s indoctrinating kindergarteners to celebrate transgendereds, they disciplined a first grader for using the wrong pronoun with a transgendered classmate.
I’m just not understanding why anyone would think a 5 year old podling is going to understand anything other than its toys, daily spaghettios or asking mommy to help it go potty. Of course, the little girl is going to go blanko & start crying because of being lectured to or probably yelled at because all she knows is that “she talked to the little boy”. I’d sue to high heaven.
It’s all a matter of spreading stupidity around, so no one takes all the blame of those on the Left who are pandering to a tiny, tiny minority of people & their agenda of destroying the individual, however it can be done. An individual is either one sex or the other. It’s not up for debate in the real world. It’s only a discussion point in a cloister of Liberals.
From the Girl Scout letter :
“From the very beginning, we have sought to be an inclusive, open organization where girls of all backgrounds and walks of life could find a *safe* space in which to learn, grow and thrive.”
[Emphasis added]
The use of the word “safe” implies two things :
Boys are inherently unsafe for girls to be around – toxic masculinity and all.
Girls are inherently safe to be around – most the online bullying is girl-on-girl. Anyone who has worked in a female dominated office environment knows just how mean females can be to one another.
I give it no more than two Olympics before China fields a primarily transsexual “women’s” Olympic team.
After all, we know that China can make little girls grow from 12 to 16 in only a year.
**le sigh**
I remember when the Boys Scouts was for going out in the woods and getting away from the womenfolk, doing manly things, making fire and playing with knives and rope, and messing-about with boats.
Never made it to scout. Organized a Weblo panty raid against the Brownies on Patmos Island around 68, I think.
Ran off into the woods with my posse, just like an outlaw.
We were drummed out of the force when we returned a few days later. Stripped of rank, and title. Very F Troop.
I think sometimes if everyone had behaved better we would have missed the bad girls. They are really something.
Thanks for this link; the analysis of the numbers is interesting. In particular, this:
RAND recommended that the military allow transgender individuals to serve openly and estimated that transgender surgeries would only cost between $2.4 million to $8.4 million per year.
Given that transgender surgeries cost an average of $132,000, according to CNN, the RAND study assumes only 18 to 63 transgender troops [per year] would seek taxpayer-funded surgeries.
Estimates for the actual number of trans-identified people in the military vary widely, but it’s fair to say that the RAND numbers are based on the premise that the vast majority of transgenders in the military would NOT opt for sex-reassignment surgery (i.e., they’d do hormones only), even if the surgery was provided FREE OF CHARGE.
Yeah, right.
But guess which numbers the Washington Blade went with in a rebuttal to Trump’s complaints about cost? Why, the RAND numbers, of course — because $8.4 million a year is so reassuringly low. (As long as you don’t divide 8.4 million by 15,500 — the Blade‘s claim for the number of trans people in the military. That works out to a sex-reassignment allowance of $560 per tranny.)
This could be good news for those of us that think the Olympics is long past its sell-by date. No more “official french fries” and “official condoms” of the US team, etc.
If sex (“gender”) is a social construct, it follows that people with XX and XY chromosomes can compete on equal terms. I’m not sure how social constructs influence the chromosomes found in one’s DNA but I’ve not taken socially-aware biology classes.
More proof that the military has a right to exclude transgender people, for the same reason that it excludes people with asthma or diabetes. Some people have special medical needs that the armed forces cannot accommodate.
As for the first graders, kids that young cannot get a tattoo or have their ears pierced without their parents’ consent. The school nurse can’t give a student aspirin without the parents’ consent.. But SJW’s think that those children are competent to decide if they “identify” as the opposite sex.
And even adults should not have to worry about getting punished for unintentionally using the wrong pronoun or title of address when some guy who looks like Charles Bronson arbitrarily decides he identifies as a woman.
if you are serving in the military and you decide that you want to have a sex change you should have to leave the service. it is why they have always had a 4f classification.
I wondered if anyone was going to figure out how debilitating transgender treatments and surgery would be. And, in the end, the male soldiers will be weaker, and the females won’t be any stronger.
Now, dare we consider the costs of offering free trans treatment to anyone who can enlist and get through what will pass for basic training?
The list just keeps growing of things the PC left has ruined or nearly ruined, football, movies, boy scouts, girl scouts, olympics, charter schools, free speech, college, politics, black families, etc…. etc… etc……….It kinda makes me glad I’m old and gonna be gone before long but sad to leave this decay to the younger ones to deal with. I’m afraid they won’t have any refuge to live a decent life soon but maybe they/you will rise to meet the challenge. Struggle does give life meaning but I’m afraid there’s a hell of a struggle on it’s way and we ain’t seen nothin’ yet. I hope I am wrong and sanity will break out instead. Keep talking sense and stand your ground, try to bring some light to the encroaching darkness and drive it back….. and clean your room for Pete’s sake!
Rex, the left wants to bring everything down to the lowest common denominator (that seems to be their comfort zone). The right wants to bring everything up to it’s fullest potential.