Canadian scouting groups welcome trans youth

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Canadian scouting groups welcome trans youth


'We are making the program more fitting to more categories of children'


Janice Thiessen / National / Thursday, March 01, 2012

http://www.xtra.ca/public/National/Canadian_scouting_groups_welcome_trans_youth-11623.aspx

Canadian scouting groups say they have taken steps to be more inclusive following a recent US case in which parents accused a Girl Scouts troop of losing its way because it welcomed a trans child.

The US fight over the enrollment of trans children in Girl Scout clubs has played out on YouTube, where a group called Honest Girl Scouts posted a video in January calling for a boycott of Girl Scout cookies in response to a Colorado troop's decision to welcome a seven-year-old trans child into its club.