(I was a Boy Scout many years ago when the organization actually had
values and didn't capitulate to political correctness.)

From: https://shorturl.at/6XFYX (thegatewaypundit.com)

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US Army May Cut Ties with the Boy Scouts, an Organization That Has Lost Its Way

by Antonio Graceffo
Nov. 26, 2025 12:00 pm

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is preparing to end the U.S. military's
century-long partnership with Scouting America, arguing that the
organization no longer promotes traditional meritocratic values and has
shifted toward policies that are genderless and driven by DEI initiatives.

Girls were admitted in 2019 in the name of inclusivity. However, the Girl
Scouts still exist as an independent organization. A reasonable
counterargument is that since girls already have the Girl Scouts, why do
they need to be in the Boy Scouts as well?

Ironically, the website of the Girl Scouts of America states, "Gender is
not binary, and neither are Girl Scouts! We provide leadership
opportunities for all youth who are not cisgender boys (assigned male at
birth and identify as male)." This is typical of what liberals call
diversity and inclusion. It means girls are admitted to boys'
organizations, while boys are excluded from girls' organizations.

Girls who believe they are boys can still be Girl Scouts because liberals
believe gender is a choice, but not for biological boys. And supporting
Secretary Hegseth's criticism of liberal agendas, the Girl Scouts use the
term "assigned male at birth," as if the doctor rolled dice to decide
which gender to "assign" to a male baby.

So, while the Girl Scouts remain a girls-only organization but still claim
to be diverse, the Boy Scouts have feminized to such a degree that they
removed the word "boy" from their name, effective 2025.

This reflects a broader pattern in which male-only institutions, such as
the YMCA, are targeted for dismantling while female-only spaces remain
protected. Critics, including Hegseth, argue that the Boy Scouts have
abandoned their original mission of forming manly, self-reliant, patriotic
boys. They contend that the organization has become a DEI-driven,
gender-neutral institution now called Scouting America.

The Boy Scouts' stated purpose at its incorporation in 1910 was to teach
boys patriotism, courage, self-reliance, and similar values. When the Boy
Scouts changed their name to the gender-neutral "Scouts," Senator Ted Cruz
of Texas mocked the move, noting the organization's historic membership
decline. "With membership at historic lows, Boy Scouts of America decides
to rebrand to make clear that `boys' are no longer welcome," he wrote.
"I'm sure that will help with recruiting."

Scouting programs used to teach the principles found in the Scout Oath:
"On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country, to
obey the Scout Law, to help other people at all times, and to keep myself
physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight." These duties to
God, country, others, and oneself are increasingly unpopular concepts in
the liberal mind.

"The Boy Scouts has been cratering itself for quite some time," Hegseth
said. "This is an institution the left didn't control. They didn't want to
improve it. They wanted to destroy it or dilute it into something that
stood for nothing."

The Boy Scouts of America now has a Chief Diversity Officer and Vice
President of Diversity and Inclusion, and the organization requires all
Eagle Scouts to earn a badge in diversity, equity, and inclusion. This
stands in sharp contrast to Robert Baden-Powell's vision and to early
leaders like Theodore Roosevelt, who saw Scouting as a way to channel
boys' desire for heroism, chivalry, and self-sacrifice in all-male
settings that fostered masculine camaraderie and responsibility.

I spoke with Joanna Cole, a woman very much opposed to the direction the
Boy Scouts have taken. She spent fourteen and a half years in the U.S.
Army serving as a drill instructor, and she now does overseas relief work
that often requires her to spend long periods in the jungles of Southeast
Asia. She believes women can be tough, and she certainly is, but she is
also happily married and clearly loves her role as a devoted mother. That
balance, she said, is exactly why "girls and boys are different."

She argued that the Boy Scouts "should be for boys because it's supposed
to build strong young men to be future leaders, strong husbands, just
strong leaders within our community and our government." She added that
the Girl Scouts also play an important role in shaping strong young women,
but that biological differences matter. Mixing the two, she said, forces
the Boy Scouts to "be weakened because the girls can't handle the level
the Boy Scouts are at."

Cole also warned that the reverse is equally harmful. She explained that
if boys are placed in Girl Scouts, they will inevitably absorb the
behaviors and interests of an environment designed for girls. In her
words, doing so risks "literally growing wussy boys" because young boys,
especially without strong male peers, naturally adapt to the group around
them.

"Yes, they're doing cool stuff," she said of Girl Scouts, "but at the end
of the day, they're still girls, and they still giggle and laugh, and they
like hair and makeup and nails and cute clothes-and that's not something
that guys should be wanting to be involved in." Mixing boys into that
environment, she said, "softens our boys."

In the same way that Bud Light, January, and Cracker Barrel destroyed
themselves by attempting to cater to the left, the Boy Scouts have sealed
their own demise with their liberal policies. In 1972, 6.5 million boys
were in the Boy Scouts. By 2020, the number had dropped below 800,000. The
organization began accepting gay boys in 2013, then allowed gay men to
serve as troop leaders in 2015. The Mormon Church, a historic cornerstone
of the modern Boy Scouts, pulled 400,000 boys out in 2018 and established
its own program called Children and Youth. Supporters of the admission of
girls claim this was done to bolster numbers, but there were only 176,000
girls while the organization had already lost millions of boys.
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