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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: boyscouts; bsa; cubscouts; homosexualagenda; scouting; scouts; transgender
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To: drewh
I'm so grateful that my scouting days were waaaay before the organization turned cowardly and deviant.

We just buried my old Scoutmaster a couple years back, and I'm so glad he didn't have to see what's become of what was once an exemplary pillar of male adolescence.

Rest in Hell, BSA

21 posted on 01/30/2017 4:59:06 PM PST by tomkat
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To: drewh

New name — You Don’t Have To Be A Boy Scouts.


22 posted on 01/30/2017 4:59:32 PM PST by Restless
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To: drewh

These worthless organizations may cave, but I don’t you’re ever going to get people to truly think a man is a woman for no reason other than they “identify” as it.


23 posted on 01/30/2017 4:59:39 PM PST by Trump20162020
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To: drewh

WTF is wrong with the Boy Scouts? Rhetorical question....they let the deviants into the leadership of the organization and they’ve made it into their own image.


24 posted on 01/30/2017 5:01:07 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: drewh

WTF is wrong with the Boy Scouts? Rhetorical question....they let the deviants into the leadership of the organization and they’ve made it into their own image.


25 posted on 01/30/2017 5:01:10 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: drewh

Put the blame where it belongs. Militant liberal Rex Tillerson was the one that opened the floodgates for the homosexual agenda.


26 posted on 01/30/2017 5:01:52 PM PST by PAR35
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To: drewh

This is one of the many reasons Trump won.

Keep it up, Leftists!


27 posted on 01/30/2017 5:02:20 PM PST by Old_And_Grumpy
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To: DouglasKC
they let the deviants into the leadership of the organization

Being a bit harsh toward Trump's Secretary of State, aren't you? He's the one that got the ball rolling.

28 posted on 01/30/2017 5:03:31 PM PST by PAR35
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To: drewh

Our church switched several years ago to Trail Life USA.


29 posted on 01/30/2017 5:04:40 PM PST by MacombBob
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To: drewh

I posted earlier today about the Secaucus girl http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3519117/posts


30 posted on 01/30/2017 5:04:53 PM PST by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: drewh
Scalia Resigns Post as Scoutmaster
“Some of the happiest memories of my adult life have been as a scoutmaster. Huddling under blankets around the campfire, and so forth. But now, all of that has been ruined. Ruined.”
What a shame. Oops, I forgot, there is no shame....

31 posted on 01/30/2017 5:06:58 PM PST by GregNH (If you can't fight, please find a good place to hide!)
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To: drewh

Exactly!

You watch, Boy Scouts of America will die out in about five years.


32 posted on 01/30/2017 5:07:00 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: drewh; SkyPilot; StoneWall Brigade; Travis McGee; Diogenesis; Lera; 444Flyer
[ Boy Scouts Will Allow Transgender Children Into Programs ]

Part of "the Obama legacy". Confusion of all that is natural; it's what he does.

Next up: Boys identifying as "girls" in Girl Scouts. You can bank on it.


33 posted on 01/30/2017 5:12:21 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: drewh

I forbid my boys from getting in to any organization that allows pedophiles as adult leaders. BSA is HISTORY!!


34 posted on 01/30/2017 5:23:06 PM PST by WENDLE (Why are republicrats frozen like stones in the Congress? Did they not hear the PEOPLE?)
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To: drewh

Conservative Boy Scout Alternatives
http://hubpages.com/sports/Conservative-Boy-Scout-Alternatives

Girl Scout Alternatives
http://hubpages.com/sports/Girl-Scout-Alternatives


35 posted on 01/30/2017 5:28:04 PM PST by tbw2
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To: DouglasKC

“WTF is wrong with the Boy Scouts? Rhetorical question....they let the deviants into the leadership of the organization and they’ve made it into their own image.”

Dont blame the boys or their leaders. The current national president: Randall L. Stephenson, chairman and CEO of AT&T. He purchased his seat on the national council right after Robert Gates. Remember the real authority of who is in the scouts are the scoutmaster and chartering orginization. If they do not want girls in the troop, they will NOT be in the troop. Period.


36 posted on 01/30/2017 5:32:48 PM PST by krizzy (NOT IN MY TROOP !)
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To: drewh
Change the name to "Boy" Scouts.


37 posted on 01/30/2017 5:44:48 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: NorthMountain
This cave-in was done in record time. The homosexual issue dragged out for several years. The Boy Scouts surrendered so quickly on the transgender issue that they beat the French record in 1940.
38 posted on 01/30/2017 5:46:43 PM PST by Wallace T.
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To: krizzy
If they do not want girls in the troop, they will NOT be in the troop. Period.

And when the local troop is sued, without the national organization (and it's legal team and money), your local troop will fold like a cheap suit. Period.

39 posted on 01/30/2017 5:56:34 PM PST by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Hwaet! Lar bith maest hord, sothlice!)
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To: drewh
The Boy Scouts of America says it will allow transgender children who identify as boys to enroll in its boys only programs.

And that boys and girls is how a country is destroyed, one bight at a time.

40 posted on 01/30/2017 6:01:21 PM PST by itsahoot (Return the power to the people, and Mexico will pay for the wall, 100%)
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