So, I just read Phil's take on the video about boycotting Girl Scout cookies because the GSUSA (Girl Scouts of the United States of America) allows transgender children to join and I agree with his sentiment. If a child is born MAAB (male assigned at birth), but self-identifies as a girl and wants to live as a girl, I don't understand why there is an issue with this child joining Girl Scouts or participating in other groups and organizations specifically geared toward girls. This child is a girl because she says she is a girl, end of story.
After watching the video, it's clear to me that the person speaking in this video doesn't really know what it means for a person to be transgender. Drawing parallels between a transgender girl, or as I like to say, girl, joining the Girl Scouts and a cisgender boy wanting to join Girl Scouts is way off base. It is a completely different scenario and most people are intelligent enough to realize that.
I cannot stress enough that trans* people aren't pretending to be something they are not to join your club or your organization. Trans* people aren't scary sexual deviants that are trying to break into the Girl Scouts to have sex with your children. Transgender people exist in this world and more often than not are just trying to carve a life for themselves where they can just exist in a way that is comfortable to them. Trans* people do not need to apologize for occupying space and joining social organizations that are aligned with their gender identity. If anyone is giving the Girl Scouts of the United States a bad name, it is the girl scouts that are behind the group making this video, Honest Girl Scouts. Take a look around their website and you will find ideas even more alarming than their take on trans* kids joining Girl Scouts. They are anti-women, anti-civil rights for GLBT people, and they are spewing a bunch of hateful, ignorant garbage.
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