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This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: A Texas-based “pro-family” group is calling for a boycott of Girl Scout cookies [pdf] in response to the organization’s decision to allow a Colorado boy who identifies as a girl to join a local troop.

In a video uploaded to YouTube last week, Honest Girl Scouts member Taylor, a 14-year-old Girl Scout from Ventura County, California, reads a statement excoriating GSUSA for “not being honest with us girls, its troops, its leaders, its parents or the American public.”

“Girl Scouts describes itself as an all-girl experience,” Taylor continues. “With that label, families trust that the girls will be in an environment that is not only nurturing and sensitive to girls’ needs, but also safe for girls.”

This isn’t the first backlash GSUSA has seen from its decision in Colorado: Three troops in Louisiana disbanded in December, citing the inclusion of trans girls as the reason. 

A boycott of Girl Scout cookies would undoubtedly harm the august organization, as it receives a generous amount of its funding from their sale.

Reached for comment, Girl Scouts spokeswoman Michelle Tompkins told the Washington Post that GSUSA “prided itself on being an inclusive organization serving girls from all walks of life,” and will continue to review “cases involving transgender children on a case by case basis with a focus on ensuring the welfare and best interests of the child in question and the other girls in the troop as our highest priority.” 

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I’m upset and infuriated right now. I was a part of the GSUSA organization for at least 13 years of my life. We taught tolerance and love and female empowerment. If that means allowing transgender children in then I HIGHLY encourage it. We’re teaching FEMALE EMPOWERMENT here. How is that not helpful for a transgender child who knows who they are? We’re teaching them values and skills to lead an empowered life. I will hands down say that being in Girl Scouts afforded me all sorts of opportunities and skills I NEVER would have had otherwise. Why can’t that be allowed for everyone? Men are allowed to join Girl Scouts when they reach age 18. The camp I worked at had a MALE COUNSELOR and MALE KITCHEN STAFF. Why are we going to start discriminating now? Just because a male child identifies and lives as a female we’re going to turn them away? What the hell is happening to this organization built on love, trust, honesty, and empowerment?

I’m so upset right now. This makes me want to cry and break things. I have worked with/for and believed in this organization for years. And now girls are coming forward and treating it like this because the GSUSA wants to treat everyone equally? I’M GOING TO BUY AT MANY BOXES OF THIN MINTS AS POSSIBLE. SERIOUSLY. I’M GOING TO GET SO FAT ON COOKIES I EXPLODE. I’m going to continue to support the actual organization since they’re not doing anything wrong, their members are. You can’t blame the whole organization because of the idiocy of some of their members.

I’m still going to be upset by this for awhile. This makes me miss being in Scouts and working at camp. Clearly, these girls need more role models who accept everyone for who they are.

Let me pose this question in response to the video: what about girls who identify as male? Does that mean they have to be booted as well? Or do they get to stay because they have a vagina/uterus. Just saying.

Apparently the problem is the equipment of the person. I just can’t.