"Girl Scouts is an inclusive organization . . . 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."For background, read Pro-abortion, Girl Scouts' Appeal Diminishes and also read Toddler Says He's a Girl, 'Parents' Say OK as well as ABC News: Boy Decides He's a Girl, Age 10
-- Rachelle Trujillo, Communications VP, Girl Scouts of Colorado
-- From "Girl Scouts of Colorado welcomes boy -- if he thinks he's a girl" by Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times 10/28/11
[7-year-old Bobby Montoya] asked his mother to sign him up for a Girl Scout troop near his Colorado home.
The troop leader said no. So Bobby's mom, Felisha Archuleta, went to the media -- telling a local television station that her son has loved "girl stuff" since he was 2, and that the troop leader's decision to reject him had left him devastated.
But in fact, Girl Scouts of Colorado does allow people with boy parts to join its troops, as long as the child is truly transgendered -- meaning the child identifies as a girl, and the family identifies the child as a girl.
"The troop leader in this case was confused because the mom was confused," Trujillo said. "She did not say, 'This is my daughter.' She said, 'This is my son and he wants to be in Girl Scouts,' and we don't accept boys in Girl Scouts."
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From "Girl Scouts of Colorado Flip-Flops on Allowing Boy to Join" by Erin Skarda, Time Magazine 10/28/11
[The boy's mother Felisha] Archuleta has supported Bobby in letting him dress and behave as he likes, telling ABC News, "I believe he was born in the wrong body." She even threw him a Rapunzel-themed party for his seventh birthday.
But what Bobby really wanted was to join the Girl Scouts, just like his older sister.
While there are no exact statistics on how many children experience gender-identity issues, according to the [radical-left] nonprofit Gender Spectrum, individuals become conscious of their sex between the ages of 18 months and 3 years, which is why many children who experience gender confusion say they've felt that way for as long as they can remember. And despite differing opinions on the subject, Gender Spectrum notes that gender confusion is not caused by anything and is not curable. Research has shown that gender is to an extent "hardwired" in the brain from birth.
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From "Transgender Bobby Montoya Still Waits for Call From Girl Scouts" by Susan Donaldson James, ABC News 10/27/11
Bobby has told his mother he believed he was a girl ever since he was very young, said Archuleta. "He just liked girl stuff. When he was 4 or 5, he asked me, 'Why didn't you make me a girl?'"
Until now, Bobby has dressed as a boy in school, but he wore a dress to school one day and was teased, said Archuleta. Since the confrontation with the Girl Scouts, Bobby has identified and dressed as a girl in public.
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From "Transgender Girl Scout Controversy Sheds Light on Organization's 'Inclusive' Policies" by Perry Chiaramonte, FoxNews.com 10/28/11
Dr. Keith Ablow, a psychiatrist and part of Fox News' Medical A-Team -- while prefacing himself by saying, "I know a lot of experts will disagree with me" -- cautioned the Girl Scouts against welcoming boys who present themselves as girls until more data is available on any potential harm it could do.
“On the face of it, it seems to be expecting far too much psychologically of young girls to ignore the anatomy of a boy and act as though he is a girl," Ablow said. "The girls are just developing comfort with their own bodies, after all.”
He, too, called it a "form of abuse."
"This is all [putting] the cart before the horse. We're conducting social, cultural, sexual experiments on the fly, using our own kids as guinea pigs, without the necessary research to guide us," he said.
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