Louisiana- Transgendered Girl Scout in Colorado causes stir in St. Tammany

[SandraJane]

Transgendered Girl Scout in Colorado causes stir in St. Tammany


Bruce Nolan, The Times-Picayune By Bruce Nolan, The Times-Picayune | Published: Sunday, January 22, 2012, 7:10 AM

http://www.nola.com/family/index.ssf/2012/01/transgendered_girl_scout_in_co.html


Times-Picayune archive

A Girl Scout troop on the north shore has collapsed after parents withdrew their children in the wake of a decision by a Colorado troop to admit a 7-year-old transgendered child. That's a move they saw as an objectionable leftward drift in Girl Scouting.

Louisiana Girl Scouts have never been asked to admit a transgendered child, said Marianne Addy, the spokeswoman for Girl Scouts Louisiana East, which provides scouting activities for 17,000 girls. And soon after the Colorado decision last fall, Louisiana Scouting directors, who are free to set local policy, decided transgendered children would not be allowed should one ever apply.

[Padma]

an objectionable leftward drift in Girl Scouting??!?

I just spat tea. Silliest thing I've read for months - if only it weren't so depressing .

[SandraJane]

Girl Scouts Louisiana East's statement on Transgender Youth

Approved by GSLE board November 2011

Girl Scouts Louisiana East is an inclusive organization, and we welcome all girls in kindergarten through 12th grade as members.
We recognize that girls benefit most from a program designed specifically for them and delivered in an all-girl setting.  We affirm that our council's programming is for girls only, and has not been designed to meet the specific needs of boys or transgendered youth.

  -Retrieved from the Internet on January 22, 2012 by SJ

http://www.gsle.org/whatisgirlscouting/genderstatement.asp

[Padma]

transgendered youth - anything to avoid gendering the transgender children. Pff (and other annoyed noises).