Canada’s Girl Scouts opens doors to ‘transgender’ members with radical new guidelines
Canada’s Girl
Guide organization has produced guidelines for male-to-female transgender
members that leaves it up to the troubled youths themselves to decide which
washrooms they will use and whom they will sleep with on group excursions.
“It’s the
path of progress to destruction,” Gwen Landolt, the executive vice president of
REAL Women of Canada, told LifesiteNews.
A former Girl Guide, Landolt said, “We took an oath back then to support God,
family and country. Now it is a case of anything goes.”
The “Guidelines
for Inclusion of Transgender Members” released on October 5, closely resemble the
draft transgender guidelines prepared for the Ottawa Carleton Public School
District and published by LifeSiteNews in August.
Both allow
the youth in question, traditionally categorized as “gender dysphoric” by the
psychoanalytic professions, to determine their gender for themselves. And both
allow the “trans” youth to determine whose washroom they will use and whether
they sleep in the hotel room or tent with boys or girls on excursions.
This markedly
contrasts with the more cautious approach of the U.S. Girl Scouts, which call
for local officials to work out the best sleeping arrangements suitable for all
members involved.
Declares the
Canadian document: “It is not the role of a Guider to judge who is and who is
not a boy or girl. Hair length, interest in sports, interest in makeup or
jewellery, or indeed any interest (or lack thereof) does not identify who is
and who is not a male or female.
“It is not
appropriate to ask a member if they are transitioning. It would be appropriate
to listen and believe a person who says they are transitioning. The only way to
know if a member is transgender is if the member tells you they are.”
On the vexed
subject of washrooms, it states, “Any child in your unit, including those who
are trans, may use the washroom that best corresponds to their gender
identity.” The document goes on to advise the leadership to provide a private
room to “transgender” members if requested.
Similarly, in
a passage specifically addressing sleepovers and campouts, the guideline
provides for “transgender” youth to have their own room if they want, but
otherwise, “if the trans girl in your unit is comfortable using a
gender-segregated change room [segregated from boys], they may have access to
the girl’s change room… As a member of your unit, the girl will participate in
the same activities as all other members of your unit. This includes sleeping
in the same area as the other members of your unit.”
“It’s the old
problem,” said Landolt. “Anyone can say they are female. It will make overnight
camping very interesting.”
But Landolt
thinks the violations of modesty are the tip of the iceberg. The real issue is
the propagation of the radical, unscientific notions of gender-fluidity. “If
they’ve done this boost their numbers,” said Landolt, “it won’t work. What
parents in their right mind want their children indoctrinated into this
nonsense?”
Mary Ellen
Douglas, national organizer for the Campaign Life Coalition, agreed.”The
problem here is the flooding of society with diversity,” but a diversity, she
noted, that “totally blends the sexes to the point of being absurd. They are
sowing confusion and maybe they want to sow confusion.”
Douglas
offered by way of contrast the clarity of Jesus’s words in Matthew 19:4, “Have
you not read that He who created them from the beginning male and female he
created them?”
Another
contrast is offered by the pragmatic, albeit still controversial, approach
taken by the Girl Scouts of the USA, which announced it would accommodate
itself to “transgender” youth earlier this year.
In discussing
sleeping and bathing issues Girl Scouts USA stated, “These situations are rare
and are considered individually with the best interests of all families in
mind. Should any girl requiring special accommodations wish to camp, GSUSA
recommends that the local council makes similar accommodation that schools
across the country follow in regard to changing, sleeping arrangements, and
other travel-related activities.”
