You might be on to something big.

OHHHHH.

How about instead of devaluing the way women talk, we ~just~ make an effort to treat boys and girls as equals? Socialization is better addressed before it happens.

The fuck did I just read?

What does she have to lose, here?

That’s exactly how I feel and I often get branded transphobic for expressing it. It’s hard to express this belief, that transgender enforces the binary, without casting trans people as the perpetrators and cis women as the victims. In reality I think trans people suffer from the binary just as much as, if not more…

Having one boy sign up for a troop that calls themselves “Girl Scouts” doesn’t obliterate that space for girls. Just like the NAACP has white and mixed members without diluting their goal of advancing opportunities for people of color.

Masculinity is NOT beautiful, nor is it the same as “maleness.” Cultural masculinity is a disease, in my opinion, and we’re all better off if it’s not nurtured.

As for physical advantages in sports, the same hormones that benefit cis-boys will also benefit trans-girls unless they’re medically transitioning. All other…

Excellent point, but as a practical comparison, look at Howard University. They can be historically black, and thus focused on black achievement, without barring non-black students from applying and attending. I think you CAN have the benefits of focusing an organization on serving a minority group without the…

I want the Girl Scouts to accept all children, regardless of gender identity. I would prefer that GSA did not turn away a child from membership because that child identifies as a boy.

Thank you. If I have a son, I would much rather he wanted to join Brownies than Cub Scouts because BSA is a shit organization with regressive policies. If they (the child) wish to identify as a girl child/woman, that’s fine with me too, but the fewer external forces involved in gender identity, the better, in my…

My opinion of them just shot way up.

I know. Boys and girls shouldn’t be segregated from each other or raised to believe they’re fundamentally different.

A trans boy might want to join Girl Scouts because it’s the best and biggest scouting organization that all his friends are members of. If I was a trans boy, I would NOT want to be involved with Boy Scouts as an alternative because they tend to be shitty and sexist more so than the Girl Scouts.

I don’t understand how the method would have to be different at all from what they already do.

The thing that concerns me about that rule (if that’s their rule) is that a male child who was assigned “boy” at birth, but who has close friends in the local GS troop and wants to participate in the activities they do may be motivated to take on the identity of “girl” in order to do so.

I don’t have some…

Cis and trans girls have the same gender identity, yes?

No, it’s not. I’m not a fan of reinforcing the gender binary, which trans inclusion can have the unfortunate side effect of doing. It’s a fine line.

Wait. Every girl, regardless of gender identity?

Huh you spell “jealousy” like I spell “concern”