The Boy Scouts of America is changing its name for the first time in its 114-year history. The Texas-based organization is announcing at its annual meeting in Florida on Tuesday that it will become Scouting America.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/20749204

Another positive step in the right direction for an organization rife with brokenness. There’s a lot I don’t like about the organization, but this is something a love–a scouting organization open to young women and the lgbtq community. The next step is being inclusive of nonreligious agnostic and atheist youth and leaders. As well as ending the cultural appropriation of Native American peoples.

May this organization continue to build up youth, never allow further violence against youth, and make amends for all the wrongs. There’s a lot of good that comes out of organizations like this and I won’t discount it even though it’s riddled with a dark history.

    • LizEnglish
      31•10 months ago

      They’re two completely separate organizations. The girl scouts can do what they want.

    • LizEnglish
      17•10 months ago

      Oh, also, the Boy Scouts have been letting in girls for a while now. I would assume they get separate tents but I don’t actually know because I’m not actually involved with the organization. But, girl members have been fairly common and this is really just a name change.

      • @[email protected]English
        6•10 months ago

        Not only separate tents, but the boys’ tents are grouped together and girl tents are grouped together with the adult tents in between those two groups. There also must be at least 1 adult of each sex.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•10 months ago

      The Girl Scouts started accepting boys years before the boy scouts started accepting girls around 10 6 years ago.

      They had boys and girls in different tents to prevent them from having sex. I’m not sure how they deal with lgbt scouts.

      Edit: Boys Scouts first allowed girls into Venturing, a program for those 14-21st birthday. Girls were allowed into Boy Scout troops and in Cub Scouts in 2018.

      Cis boys aren’t allowed in Girl Scouts.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•10 months ago

          I thought I had remembered them allowing some boys. I know of a male girl scout leader.

          I’ll edit that part.

          • @[email protected]English
            1•10 months ago

            They accept trans boys, trans girls, and nonbinay kids. So they do allow some boys. Just not cis boys.

            I think they allow male leaders because it’s hard to get people to volunteer for that position without even limiting to one gender.

        • @[email protected]English
          4•10 months ago

          Boy Scouts can join a troop at 10 and age out at 18. It’s not uncommon for high schoolers to begin experimenting sexually.

          Further there’s also a branch of Boy Scouts called Venturing that is co-ed where participants age out at 21.