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.

    • Bonehead
      19•26 days ago

      The organization as a whole, yes. But some individual troops are still run by bigots that haven’t gotten the message yet.

      • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔OPEnglish
        15•26 days ago

        I’d say fight it, because it can be won. Then again, I’d rather my child be a part of a troop that’s welcoming and safe. It’s hard to be a trailblazer.

        There’s a lot of reasons to shop around with different troops. This reason is particularly important.

        As we know though, trans youth have it particularly bad from every direction right now. 😖

        • @[email protected]English
          5•26 days ago

          Yeah, if you are looking for a troop for your kid, avoid the Mormon ones. And the boring ones who don’t go anywhere fun. And the “tough” ones with strict parents.

          Remember that you can always just go to another one. And when you first get there, they will be on their best behavior. So if you don’t like what you see at the first meeting it will probably get worse.

        • @[email protected]English
          3•26 days ago

          The most effective (though slightly petty) move would be to fight it until they are forced to accept you and then leave immediately.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•26 days ago

          why would you fight for someone that hates you? you don’t want to be in that group anyway.

      • BigFigEnglish
        9•26 days ago

        I would absolutely report it. They can more than likely lose their affiliation entirely for not following rules