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.

  • Null User ObjectEnglish
    3•13 days ago

    The sad part about this is that The Girl Scouts has always been an amazing organization that’s done great things for girls and society, but didn’t get all of the favorable treatment that the boys did from the government. Now their playing field is going to be even more unlevel.

    • BuelldozerEnglish
      7•13 days ago

      Girls were welcomed in six years ago. The first group of Girl “Eagle Scouts” came about in 2021.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•13 days ago

      Girl Scouts is an amazing organization and there are some things they do that I prefer to Boy Scouts (like no religious requirement). But the mission is very different. Now there are multiple organizations that can serve girls.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•13 days ago

      Girl scouts is boring and doesn’t cater to what modern girls want to do. Most girls drop out after “Brownies”. It may be better for girls that don’t want to be around boys, but it’s clearly not as popular.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•13 days ago

        Also, the GSA is pretty open about the fact that it’s just a thinly-veiled business program anymore. They exist to sell cookies and merch and that’s about it - anything that’s actually FURTHER than that is at the discretion of the troop, but not encourages.