NBC Denver Station Pushes Colorado Girl Scouts Into Accepting Boys Who 'Identify' as Girls
NBC's Denver affiliate KUSA-TV reports that the mother of 7-year-old "transgender kid" Bobby Montoya was told by a troop leader that boys could not join the Girl Scouts. When the TV station contacted Girl Scouts of Colorado, they spurred a completely different answer. Girl Scouts are now apparently "inclusive" enough to welcome children who "identify as girls," regardless of their actual bodies.
Felisha Archuleta, the boy's mother, told KUSA she was told Bobby could not sign up. "I said, 'Well, what's the big deal?' She said 'It doesn't matter how he looks, he has boy parts, he can't be in Girl Scouts. Girl Scouts don't allow that [and] I don't want to be in trouble by parents or my supervisor.'" The Girl Scouts announced their "accelerated support" for the GLBT lobby:
"Girl Scouts is an inclusive organization and we accept all girls in Kindergarten through 12th grade as members. If a child identifies as a girl and the child's family presents her as a girl, Girl Scouts of Colorado welcomes her as a Girl Scout. Our requests for support of transgender kids have grown, and Girl Scouts of Colorado is working to best support these children, their families and the volunteers who serve them. In this case, an associate delivering our program was not aware of our approach. She contacted her supervisor, who immediately began working with the family to get the child involved and supported in Girl Scouts. We are accelerating our support systems and training so that we're better able to serve all girls, families and volunteers."
The whole story and interview segment afterward from KUSA (a Gannett property) was completely one-sided. No one who disapproved of encouraging "transgender" politicking was given a second of air time.
Corey Barrett of the local "LGBT Center" insisted on change to a "healthy" liberal approach: "There has definitely been this increase of questioning at an early age. I think it's all about providing a healthy environment for them for that to happen. Everyone needs to be prepared or at least have an idea from a policy and procedure stand point how they're going to address that. And make sure that the public is aware of that." KUSA's online story linked directly to their website.
Psychologist Shawn Worthy was brought into the studio to urge parents to overlook little "external manifestations" like which gender you actually are:
"If I were talking to my kids I would say, 'You know what, we determine how great people by who they are, by how kind they are, how smart they are, by what kind of people they are and not by how they dress, or the color of their skin or any other of those physical properties, because those are just external manifestations.’ I would encourage my kids to get to know the person and then make a decision if that's a good person, if that's a good friend or not."
ABC News has also picked up the story, but its online report also excluded any conservatives. Instead, the P.C. line is emphasized:
Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, said she was pleased with the policy of the Girl Scout leadership, "whether it was a change of heart or it just got taken upstairs and they explained the existing policy.
"These cases should be about the children," said Keisling. "The Girl Scout leader kept saying the 'boy's parts,' and that is not the Girl Scout leader's business and, frankly, not something a Girl Scout leader should have been talking about to a parent or anyone else.
"One of the things Girl Scouts learn is inclusivity and civility, and I think they smartly realized that they can't be uncivil or exclusionary."
Kiesling said that age 7 is not too young for Bobby to decide whether he's a girl or a boy. "Who is to decide who is a boy and who is a girl?" she asked. "We see this all the time."
"I don't think it's such a big deal," said Archuleta. "We don't need therapy. Bobby doesn't need therapy. If Bobby wants to be a girl, that's what we'll do."
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"Identifies" as a girl?!
Submitted by Morganfrost on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 1:18pm.
That's just plain loopy. You don't "identify" as a particular sex-- you're just born one or the other, and your preferences on the subject really don't matter. I can go around and "identify" as the pope, if I want, but it doesn't mean I can start holding mass in the Vatican.
If I had a daughter, and she were a girl scout, I'd have a fit if someone wanted to install their little gender-bender in my child's troop. The whole thing is disgusting. Buy the little weirdo a gun and a football, and tell him to get over it.
Between their support for
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 1:27pm.
Between their support for Planned Parenthood, and this, (not to mention the fact that the girls bust their butts selling cookies and the local troops get bupkis... I don't know why any parent who doesn't have grapes for brains would allow their daughter to join this idiot organization.
Time for door to door selling of GC cookies
Submitted by lrgon on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 6:59pm.
When the door bell rings and the child is there with her mom or dad what else can can you tell them but no. I wouldn't want to hurt the little girl's feelings but a pre-written card explaining why you won't buy anymore cookies may help not talking about your objections in front of the child.
The national GS organization is going to keep getting worse. A big FAT NO is what they need to get them back on track to the original objectives of the scouts.
If this kid wants to be a
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 1:23pm.
If this kid wants to be a "transgendered scout" then his/her parents can damn well start their own organization of TSA...Transgendered Scouts of America.
Enough already with forcing exsisting organizations to bend and compromise!
And then we'll see just how "tolerant" they are...would they allow boy-to-girls and girl-to-boys in the same troop?
Some think the OWS are destructive*
Submitted by cajun2 on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 1:27pm.
The OWS protests are "manned" by a forward troop of useful idiots. The real "soldiers" who are intent on destroying our society are groups like this one.
Another incremental step, cajun is always talking about, designed to bring our society to barbarism and hedonistic behavior so the true evil ones can begin to take control with the excuse that they must do so to bring back "order" to our society.
And then, cajun, we have CNN
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 1:40pm.
And then, cajun, we have CNN doing a segment on how this is not a disorder.
Who says it's not a disorder?
Why, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, that's who!
IOW, a group of people with like thinking form an association and that gives their like thinking the force of....I don't know what....a "consensus"?
Just ignore all the doctors, psychologists and other professionals who aren't members of this Professional Association.
What I can't believe is this Kierling person who says it's not a big deal.
Changing one's sex is no big deal?
My guess is that most doctors and psychologists do think it's a Big "Joe Biden" deal!!
Agree motherbelt*
Submitted by cajun2 on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 5:32pm.
Parents who encourage "sexual confusion" with kids before puberty to me is child abuse. Since this article and others similar usually causes me to "rant in anger", I'm going to need your duct tape..
I read this earlier
Submitted by pepperoniprince on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 1:25pm.
And it still makes me want to puke. What the hell is wrong with this country when 2-4% of the population(the alleged LBGT numbers) holds the rest of us hostage with their narrative.
Seven year old kids do not decide their gender, MOM; you are a train wreck. If any of my girls were in the GS and any kind of male was introduced, they would be gone. But here, we see, the GS bow to this nonsense.
Shut it down, it's over.
Who's doing the "identifying?
Submitted by CobraMan on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 1:45pm.
"If Bobby wants to be a girl, that's what we'll do."
Hay, lady, who's actually doing the "identifying" here, you or your child? Who is it that actually want's "Bobby" to be a girl, him or you? As it is YOU who is buying those cloths for your child, as it is YOU who is trying to get him into Girl Scouts, as it is YOU who has total control over this unfortunate child's "life choices," it is obvious that it is YOU who's trying to turn your son into your daughter. He doesn't have any choice in the matter. After finally breaking away from your control, this kid is going to require years of therapy just to overcome the mental trauma that YOU are inflicting upon him!
This woman reminds me of the mother (or was it the grandmother?) in Red Dragon. She's trying to "cut it off." I wouldn't be surprised if her son turns out the same way as the psycho character!
Hay, lady, I have a question for you: When your son finally goes through puberty and discovers that he actually likes girls, will he then, in your mind, become a lesbian? Your transgendered lesbian son. Think about it. It could be a whole new class of "victimhood!" Think of the publicity that will generate for you!
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This!
Submitted by ArcherB on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 3:10pm.
AWESOME!!!
"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary."
--Ernesto "Che" Guevara
CobraMan
Submitted by tdabbs on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 11:06pm.
You are spot on.
Mommy Montoya better lock up all the knives in the house.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 1:31pm.
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Oops, it's Mommy Archuleta.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 1:42pm.
Mommy and Bobby have different last names for some reason.
Mommy appears to be a real freakshow, too, which may explain why Daddy disappeared.
SOL
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 2:00pm.
I'm guessing daddy was a turkey baster.
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Perhaps Bobby has two mommies
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 4:57pm.
Without a male role model, it's possible that Bobby believes (or has been led to believe) that males are not conducive to healthy family life, and wants to be girl.
Form the TSOA
Submitted by 4Deuce on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 1:37pm.
It's hard for me to believe that at the age of 7, a boy believes he is actually a girl inside. This seems like the work of his mother, not him.
But the solution here is not to badger the Girl Scouts and thus force a change in an institution established for girls. What this kid's Mom should do is gather around all of those nattering voices belonging to people so sympathetic to this cause and together found the Transgendered Scouts of America (TSOA). If, as they say, this gender bending phenomena is as widespread as it is, it is high time the TSOA was established. That way, the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts can exist as they were intended to. This constand bowing to political correctness is soft tyranny and it can't be stopped as long as people defer to the whining of the very dangerous PC crowd - some of the most intolerant people you will ever find in our midst.
Girl Scouts demise
Submitted by MominMD on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 1:45pm.
AND my friends, this is why the Girl Scouts are a dying breed. NONE of my friends have their girls in scouting anymore. Most have cited that Girl Scouts has become too "political" - ya' think? Boy Scouts are booming - perhaps because they stand up to these idiots? Just a thought.
Spot on. . .
Submitted by rick.bren on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 3:12pm.
The Girl Scouts even try to indoctrinate girls with some of their badges. My daughter was a Brownie15 years ago and I was surprised at some of the lib philosophies they pushed.
Proud Mama
Submitted by SamC on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 4:45pm.
I'm so proud of my Eagle Scout and recommend Boys Scouts to all boys. If this idiot mother enrolled her SON in the correct scouting program, he might have a shot at a normal life. I feel very sorry for him.
I'm also proud of myself for realizing after just one year that Girl Scouts was NOTHING like Boy Scout and got my girls out. They've not missed a thing.
While both the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) and . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 5:08pm.
. . . the Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA) began about the same time and have modified their programs over the past hundred years, the two organizations are more and more dissimilar in objectives and core values than ever before. The major difference is that BVSA has maintained an individuals religious life as a core value, whereas GSUSA had dropped any emphasis of that.
GSUSA is very much influenced by the tenets of the Feminist Movement.
BSA has permitted women to be Scoutmasters since the late 1970's, and enrolled female members as young as 14 into the co-ed Explorer (now Venture) program. My younger sister, who had been an Girl Scout, was the Vice President of Explorer Post 660 (Massapequa, NY) back in 1974. My daughter was a member of a Venture crew here in Virginia 7 years ago.
Try getting a 16 year-old heterosexual boy into a Girl Scout troop. If you're a heterosexual adult male, apply to become the Troop Leader of a Girl Scout unit and see what kind of response you get.
Yet, it's the BSA which draws fire from the Left and the MSM.
It's kind of sad
Submitted by Radical1979 on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 8:00pm.
At Boy Scout Camp my son was with all guys. He got really, really dirty. He did guy stuff. He got teased the way guys do (snipe hunts anyone?) and for two weeks was away from me and all the manners and civilized stuff us mom's like to teach our boys.
In Girl Scouts, back in my day, we learned girl stuff and outdoor stuff. We camped and and swam and were able to play games without having to compete with the boys who were stronger and faster. It helped us learn how to relate to other women so we could have friendships with them. Now Girl Scouts are going to let in boys and change the entire dynamic. I wonder if Camp Fire Girls would be a good alternative?
Check 'African-American' on all official forms
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 2:10pm.
I would push all white Americans, hell, ALL Americans, to ask to be included in the 'African-American' category for all government, job and education organizations. After all, it would be racist to not be inclusive of all peoples.
I have begun doing just that
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 5:14pm.
And when they challenge my self-categorization, I ask them if they believe in evolution. They naturally respond that they do, so I then explain that my ancestors -- like everyone else's -- originate in Africa. My family tree ultimately ended up in North America via Europe, but who is to tell me that I can't be an African-American?
I also question about the label Caucassian . Nobody ever asked me if I am comfortable with that label. In fact, I see it as a deliberate attempt to separate me from my African roots.
A 7 year old?
Submitted by LinTaylor on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 2:25pm.
Isn't 7 a little young to decide that you'd rather be the opposite sex? Maybe you should wait until he stops thinking that girls have cooties before turning him into Mommy's Little Drag Queen.
Aww, the LGBT community only
Submitted by ant on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 2:32pm.
Aww, the LGBT community only wants 'equal rights', as long as they're the extraordinary kind of 'equal rights'. I think it's wholly unfair that I can't breathe underwater and 'join' a pod of dolphins. Waaa! Not fair! I need a lawyer and an aqua-lung.
Careful, Ant
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 5:41pm.
Buh-Rock will be paying for free scuba lessons for all if he hears you.
He'll take over NAUI and PADI and appoint a Czar of the Underseas.
So shhhh!
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Perverts!
Submitted by lkotur on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 2:53pm.
Websters Dictionary:
Definition of PERVERT
transitive verb
1 a : to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt
b : to cause to turn aside or away from what is generally done or accepted : misdirect
2 a : to divert to a wrong end or purpose : misuse
b : to twist the meaning or sense of : misinterpret
There is a reason we call people like that perverts! Words have meanings, and this is perverse!
Another Parent Failing To Do Her Job
Submitted by Blue Collar Todd on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 3:18pm.
Parents are no longer being parents and society is going to suffer the consequences. A parent’s role is to guide their child to in many things and one of them is to protect their child from harmful behavior. Just because a child wants to touch a hot stove does it mean the parent should allow it. In a similar way, no child should be allowed to make decisions about his or her sexual identity. When this happens, when a parent fails in their role, we get a 7 year old boy who wants to join the Girls Scouts with a mother who is enabling this nonsense.
http://bluecollarphilosophy.com/2011/10/26/mom-tries-to-enroll-her-7-yea...
Denver; an Al Gore moment
Submitted by deadeyedan on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 3:19pm.
Will that NBC (read, Jeff Immelt controlled) Denver radio station push those scouts into believing in global warming as they shovel those 8+ inches of heat wave off their sidewalks?
GLOBAL WARMING - authoritarian, rather than authoritative, science
CLIMATEGATE - the revelation that the pseudo-scientists at East Anglia University know just as much about the atmosphere as Harvard law professors know about the Constitution
Liberals
Submitted by Djinn1975 on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 4:11pm.
Botching straightforward instances of black and white since forever.
I have a lot of respect for
Submitted by Rukus on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 4:34pm.
The scouts themselves, they do a lot of good things. But I can't help but dislike the organization. I still remember back when 3 little girl scouts were raped and murdered in Oklahoma back around '76 or '77. I remember reading that the first call made when the girls were discovered was to the scouts lawyers. Wish I could remember where I read it but it was long ago. May have been the Mobile Press/Register, not sure.
A new birth
Submitted by Model850 on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 4:35pm.
"I don't think it's such a big deal," said Archuleta. "We don't need therapy. Bobby doesn't need therapy. If Bobby wants to be a girl, that's what we'll do."
And another serial killer is born....
Quite a twist
Submitted by CobraMan on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 7:29pm.
This woman sure puts quite a twist on the Oedipus Complex, doesn't she?
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Close Cobra*
Submitted by cajun2 on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 8:44pm.
There is already a classification for this kind of illness
Calling Dr. Ablow.
Submitted by almostacowboy on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 5:00pm.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/10/26/jenna-lyons-and-j-crew-wanted-...
Well, now, they have to
Submitted by jessieH on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 7:08pm.
Well, now, they have to change the name. They are no longer the girl scouts. No matter what anyone says, they must change their name. We wouldn't want to confuse the children, more than the liberals already have.
My son is looking for a job...
Submitted by Radical1979 on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 7:20pm.
I'm going to tell him to identify himself as a minority on all his applications and tell them that's how he sees himself. I think we'll do that with my daughter on her student loan. She hasn't been getting any student aide, so maybe if she "thinks" she's black she'll qualify.
Absolutely no support for girl scouts
Submitted by ohio granny on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 7:31pm.
I will never buy another box of girl scout cookies and I will advise everyone I know with young daughters to not let their daughters (do I now need to include boys?) join the girl scouts.
The last time I checked the dictionary the definition of girl was still female. Not male, not transgender. The girl scouts have sold their souls to political correctness. Sickening.
I went to the GSA site
Submitted by tdabbs on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 10:59pm.
and left a comment telling them I would never buy anymore cookies!
I'm weak
Submitted by Radical1979 on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 11:19pm.
Come spring I'll sell my soul for a box of thin mints. I could never say no to them.
The little freak identifies
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 11:51pm.
The little freak identifies himself as a girl because the parents choose treat him as if he were a girl. Bet the boys at NAMBLA are frothing at the mouth about now.
Such situations used to be humorous now they are Stupid.
Submitted by Avitar on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 1:52am.
My mother was my one year younger sister's brownie troop leader in the early sixties. When there was no babysitting alternative I toured with the brownies. One tour was to a camp with swimming facilities, I wouldn't call it a pool for swimming lessons. The girls including me were herded into a locker room and told to change into swimming suits. We alerted the camp administrator to the mix-up immediately. It was the sixties and the group which operated the camp included nudist contingents. They had assumed a mixed group could be treated as one group.
I was not traumatized by the adult expectation that I would dress out in a common area with girls as my siblings shared a single bedroom until we added bedrooms to the house just before I turned nine. My mother, a Southern Baptist was unhappy to learn that the camp used a common dressing room for boy and girls. Most striking was that some of the girls from the troop were absolutely traumatized by the suggestion that they would be dressing with a boy. Four or five girls who I attended second grade with became distraught to the point that they had to be comforted and reassured for around tem minutes in the face of what did not happen. Just the thought spoken in mistake by an adult traumatized them.
Little girls have a period growing up when they separate themselves from the little boys instinctively. I wonder how many of the little girl scouts will be traumatized by having the boy pretending to be a girl. The impact on the girls may be more serious than the impact on the boy.
Such situations used to be humorous now they are Stupid.
Submitted by Avitar on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 1:52am.
My mother was my one year younger sister's brownie troop leader in the early sixties. When there was no babysitting alternative I toured with the brownies. One tour was to a camp with swimming facilities, I wouldn't call it a pool for swimming lessons. The girls including me were herded into a locker room and told to change into swimming suits. We alerted the camp administrator to the mix-up immediately. It was the sixties and the group which operated the camp included nudist contingents. They had assumed a mixed group could be treated as one group.
I was not traumatized by the adult expectation that I would dress out in a common area with girls as my siblings shared a single bedroom until we added bedrooms to the house just before I turned nine. My mother, a Southern Baptist was unhappy to learn that the camp used a common dressing room for boy and girls. Most striking was that some of the girls from the troop were absolutely traumatized by the suggestion that they would be dressing with a boy. Four or five girls who I attended second grade with became distraught to the point that they had to be comforted and reassured for around tem minutes in the face of what did not happen. Just the thought spoken in mistake by an adult traumatized them.
Little girls have a period growing up when they separate themselves from the little boys instinctively. I wonder how many of the little girl scouts will be traumatized by having the boy pretending to be a girl. The impact on the girls may be more serious than the impact on the boy.
Nothing wrong with the boy wanting to join the Girl Scouts
Submitted by Icarus on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 2:40am.
and there's nothing wrong with the KUSA-TV report on it. The real crazy thing about this is NewsBusters disapprovingly talking about the news report.
And now, this ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGuUYavEPwE
sick times
Submitted by bluecollarbytes on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 7:56am.
Let's leave PC in the dust where it belongs. This story reflects the sick times we live in. How does a little boy 'transgenderize'?
"I don't think it's such a
Submitted by misterbee241 on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 12:11pm.
"I don't think it's such a big deal," said Archuleta. "We don't need therapy. Bobby doesn't need therapy. If Bobby wants to be a girl, that's what we'll do."
well with Bobby making all the decisions, with no expectation of direction and guidance from you, then your job as parent has become much easier.
Good morning misterbee
Submitted by cocodrie on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 12:24pm.
If we let these two who don't know what a parent is become parents why shouldn't we let a 7 year old who doesn't know what sex is decide to be a different sex? Being the correct sex is so important we kill 'em in the womb if they're the wrong sex.
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