Boy Scouts ruined by political correctness: Your Say
Readers react to the Boy Scouts announcement accepting transgender youth.
The Boy Scouts of America announced Monday that, effective immediately, it will accept and register transgender youth into its organization. Facebook comments are edited for clarity and grammar:
How long before any one of the new gender types sues to change the name from Boy Scouts of America to “Snowflake Scouts”?
— Jackson Wilson
It’s called “Boy Scouts of America” for a reason. Just start another one called “the misinformed”!
— Stanley Baker
First you begin to wobble, then you fall. The U.S. is on a downward trajectory. There is no good that can come from supporting this kind of recognition from the Boy Scouts.
I think it is child abuse to allow a child to pretend to play the role of the opposite sex, and it is even worse when parents and school officials support and encourage it.
A child living under my roof will follow my rules, until he is of legal age and can live on his own. That’s the way it has always been. That is what a normal parent would do. But we live in a very sick society today. Parents do not want to parent, they want to be a child’s friend.
— Larry Hubble
I agree that forcing a child to play the role of the opposite sex is bad. But transgender children have been forced to pretend to be something they are not for a very long time.
It is time for that nonsense to stop, and let trans children be who they are without having to pretend to be someone they are not.
— Bryan Oakley
As an Eagle Scout, I’m proud of this decision from Boy Scouts. It was long overdue.
— Andy Linn
This is absolutely sickening. It seems like every parent wants his child to grow up a fruitcake.
Politically correct culture is destroying American youth and emasculating our young men. Get some guts and stand up to this liberal agenda.
— Edgar Fuss