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Boy Scouts of America to begin accepting transgender boys
Yahoo Reuters ^ | January 30, 2017

Posted on 01/30/2017 5:02:38 PM PST by SMGFan

The Boy Scouts of America said on Monday the group would begin accepting transgender boys, bucking its more than a century-old practice of using the gender stated on a birth certificate to determine eligibility. "Starting today, we will accept and register youth in the Cub and Boy Scout programs based on the gender identity indicated on the application," Boy Scouts of America communications director Effie Delimarkos said in an emailed statement. Delimarkos' cited shifting definitions of gender under state laws, which can "vary widely from state to state," in explaining the change.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boyscouts; bsa; cubscouts; genderiddisorder; homosexualagenda; rextillerson; scouting; scouts; transgender
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And I was posting about this issue with a Secaucus girl.
1 posted on 01/30/2017 5:02:38 PM PST by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

The Jamboree will never be the same.


2 posted on 01/30/2017 5:05:53 PM PST by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: SMGFan

Boy Scouts have a congressional charter - why should they give 2 spits about any state ?


3 posted on 01/30/2017 5:08:19 PM PST by stylin19a (The air I am breathing seems to be a little freer today.)
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To: SMGFan

Hours and hours I spent with my sons in BSA ... how could any father today support such an organization? Liberals poison and ruin every good thing they touch.


4 posted on 01/30/2017 5:09:13 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: SMGFan

It may be time to give up on BSA. Create a new organization to meet the needs that BSA was created to meet, and run with it. If the new organization lasts a century before being destroyed, that’s well worth the effort.


5 posted on 01/30/2017 5:12:21 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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“Boy Scouts of America to begin accepting transgender boys”

That didn't take long.

6 posted on 01/30/2017 5:15:33 PM PST by jeffersondem
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To: SMGFan

Most homosexuals were sexually abused as children.

They want to normalize their behavior to have better access to YOUR children.


7 posted on 01/30/2017 5:16:29 PM PST by G Larry (The left has no values to live up to.)
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To: SMGFan

It has been decided by my grandson’s parents that he will NOT be a member of the Boy Scouts in any way, shape or manner...


8 posted on 01/30/2017 5:21:23 PM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: Pollster1

Here is an organization that is already up and running. Trail Life USA.

http://www.traillifeusa.com/


9 posted on 01/30/2017 5:28:19 PM PST by Wiz-Nerd
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To: Pollster1

The issue here is not the organization but the laws that have been enacted to compel them to accept this problem.

This is the culture we as a society have allowed. These are the laws we permitted.


10 posted on 01/30/2017 5:30:11 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: HarleyLady27

The BSA have gone down the crapper. It is sad how far they have fallen.


11 posted on 01/30/2017 5:32:21 PM PST by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: SMGFan

Rex Tillerson headed up the Boy Scouts when homosexuality was herded in.

I wish him well, but this is the logical consequence of his actions then.


12 posted on 01/30/2017 5:34:26 PM PST by onedoug
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In all honesty, our troop could use a dose of masculinity that these new scouts are sure to bring. I am actually serious. Blue, Pink, and orange hair abounds.

We are in Los Angeles.

Off topic: I did board of review for a Tenderfoot rank advancement last week. We were asking him about school, chores, etc. He informed us that he "doesn't do chores, the maid does them."

He failed. Not because of that. He couldn't recite the scout oath.

13 posted on 01/30/2017 5:38:02 PM PST by Partisan Hack
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So, the answer these days is you just don’t have your kids in any sort of “organization”. Instead, here, a Playstation 4...have at it...

My kids are on vid games, my wife spends every waking hour on Facebook.

Me, I’m a 49 yr old dirt bike fiend..in the woods trying to kill myself weekly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkYrEwBRyBU


14 posted on 01/30/2017 5:42:15 PM PST by Professional
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Let it die.


15 posted on 01/30/2017 5:42:35 PM PST by SoFloFreeper (Isaiah 25:8)
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To: SMGFan

The Boy Scouts of America is dead to me.


16 posted on 01/30/2017 5:47:43 PM PST by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: SMGFan

sick


17 posted on 01/30/2017 5:58:29 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: SMGFan
"Starting today, we will accept and register youth in the Cub and Boy Scout programs based on the gender identity indicated on the application,"

It is very disappointing to see the BSA taking action to support someone with a treatable mental disorder. I do not see how that helps a child with gender confusion.

They should talk to Ben Carson or Johns Hopkins, or do their own research instead of blindly following orders of the LGBT crowd.

18 posted on 01/30/2017 6:08:24 PM PST by olezip
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To: phormer phrog phlyer

Sick sick sick. Virtue signaling on the backs of the young and innocent.


19 posted on 01/30/2017 6:16:37 PM PST by relictele (`)
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To: SMGFan

It is sad that so many boys will not have the same experience I had in Boy Scouts and similarly the wonderful time my son had. BSA is in its final days. Makes me sad.

Eagle Scout; Bronze Palm 1969
Scouter 1995-2008
Son: Eagle Scout; Gold Palm 2007


20 posted on 01/30/2017 6:21:27 PM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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