Girl Scouts return $100,000 pledge after donor excludes transgender girls

[Jazzy]

“We were thrilled,” said Megan Ferland, Chief Executive Officer of the Girl Scouts of Western Washington, as she told Seattle Metropolitan about the day her organization received a $100,000 donation earlier this year.

Yet the donation wasn’t welcome for long. In late May, Ms. Ferland received a letter from the donor highlighting one condition: “Please guarantee that our gift will not be used to support transgender girls. If you can’t, please return the money.”

Ferland wouldn’t name the donor, but said the organization had to reject their offer. “Girl Scouts is for every girl,” she told themagazine. “And every girl should have the opportunity to be a Girl Scout if she wants to."

The pledge amounted to nearly a quarter of the council’s annual fundraising goal and was also enough to send 500 girls to camp. But Girl Scouts of Western Washington didn’t lose hope that quickly. Instead, they set up an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign with the message, “Help us raise back the $100,000 a donor asked us to return because we welcome transgender girls.

“$100,000 is a lot of money,” the organization stated on its campaign page. “In fact, it’s almost a third of our entire financial assistance program for this year – and girls need this support now. That’s why losing this gift is such a big deal.”

This isn’t the first time the Girl Scouts has faced transgender issues. In 2012, the organization made headlines when a Colorado troop rejected a seven-year old boy who identified as a girl, reports Denver’s NBC affiliate. When a supervisor heard of the case, Girl Scouts of Colorado sent the network the following statement, reiterating its inclusive stance:

"We accept all girls in Kindergarten through 12th grade as members. If a child identifies as a girl and the child's family presents her as a girl, Girl Scouts of Colorado welcomes her as a Girl Scout. Our requests for support of transgender kids have grown, and Girl Scouts of Colorado is working to best support these children, their families and the volunteers who serve them."

Since then, the organization has kept its promise. It even began hosting events where Girl Scouts can learn how to become ‘allies’ and advocate for their LGBT peers.

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Should transgender girls be allowed to join the Girl Scouts? Why/Why not?

 

[Smiley]

I don't see why not. Since children are more open-minded than adults and still uncorrupted, being around transgendered individuals might give them more time to get used to them, to learn to accept them as equals, since adults tend to quickly dismiss anything that doesn't fit into their established 'this is right - that is wrong' perception of the world.

Or, create a whole new group of scouts - Transgendered Scouts.

 

[Jazzy]

“Girl Scouts is for every girl,” she told the magazine. “And every girl should have the opportunity to be a Girl Scout if she wants to."

"We accept all girls in Kindergarten through 12th grade as members. If a child identifies as a girl and the child's family presents her as a girl, Girl Scouts of Colorado welcomes her as a Girl Scout.

If the girl scouts are for every girl, why are they allowing boys in? They are not truly girls, no matter how much they identify themselves as a girl. Would you really want your daughter showering with a boy just because he says he's is a girl? I wouldn't.

They need to create a new transgender scout chapter and come up with a new name. Maybe Rainbow scouts?

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Hell no they should not be allowed to join girl scouts. They are not girls! They are boys with a mental illness! Maybe donate that $100,000 to get them help before they start mutilating there bodies so they can pretend to be girls but never will be no matter how many surgeries are performed.