Boycotting Girl Scouts over Transgenders is a Load of Poop

I just watched the video of a girl scout asking for a boycott of selling cookies until transgendered females are removed from the organization. It was strange.

There are some problems that people can nitpick on this video. But there is just one major problem that I am having with it. That problem is the girl scout's inability to recognize a male to female (mtf) transgender as a woman. She makes the often uneducated assumption that trans people are simply playing dress up or messing around. That the boys who are wishing to enter the Girl Scouts are doing so as secretive perverted spies or something.

Nope. Wrong.

Trangendered individuals are identifying themselves as a gender they were not born as and are trying to be a part of. You know what these kids are doing? They're wanting to be a part of girl culture and be accepted as a girl. It's not some weird conspiracy. And what are the fail safes to keep some creepy boys out of it? Well, the parents vouching for them seems pretty good. Anyone that is determined enough to sit down with their parents and talk to them about identifying as a girl when she was born as a boy should be seen as a girl. What parent would just give the okay for some cis(comfortable in skin) guy to infiltrate the Girl Scouts? None, I would hope. It's deceitful and wrong. But a parent saying, "We've talked and she is identifying as a girl." Seems totally reasonable to me.

Girl Scouts are for girls and a transgender girl is still a girl.

So the problem lies with this girl scout coming to terms with the fact that transgenders are not about cloak and dagger bullshit. Rather, they are about trying to find a way to translate who they are in their heads into who they are in the world.

Now, I'm no expert. I have one ftm (female to male) friend. So most of what I know, I know from talking and hanging out with him. So if I said or used labels that inappropriate or wrong let me know. Now, I'm hoping I can get my bro to add his two cents to this post sometime in the next day or two.

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via Jezebel.