He knew Girlguiding was a space for him
We want every member of Girlguiding to feel like they belong.
Well that makes sense. There wouldn’t be much point in having members you make feel as if they don’t belong.
It’s why we have an Equality and diversity policy, training for volunteers on how to include everyone, and why we love to share stories from all our members on what it means to feel included. We hope it helps you as volunteers feel empowered to welcome everyone to our organisation.
Well they can’t welcome everyone to their organization, surely. It’s Girl Guides – so they can’t welcome adults or boys. Right?
We’re sharing the true story of Rainbow (all names have been changed), a girl who joined our youngest section and knew Girlguiding was a space for her.
‘My husband and I are lucky enough to be parents of a seven-year-old girl, Rainbow,’ says Jane. ‘She loves LEGO, climbing trees, reading, playing with her friends and not listening to us when we ask her to wash her hands before dinner.
‘She might sound very much like your children, and she is the same, except when she was born, we assumed she was a boy.’
Ah. In other words Rainbow is a boy. “Girl” Guides is being inclooosive by incloooding a boy, which means all the girls are deprived of being in a Guides group for girls. Why is one boy privileged over a group of girls?
The rest of it is the usual fatuous drivel.
Unless that member feels uneasy sleeping in the same tent with a boy. Or her parents won’t permit her to sleep in the same tent with a boy. Now, I think it might not matter much at seven; but seven year olds grow up. He won’t remain seven for ever…in fact, by next summer, he will have moved on to eight.
Current laws allow one to change one’s legal age once a year.
Re “We want every member of Girlguiding to feel like they belong”
Perhaps some people (specifically, male people) shouldn’t be members of Girlguiding.
Surely, though, you don’t want nonmembers to feel like they belong (to your organization), right? Because they, um, don’t belong (to your organization)?
It’s hard to fathom how these people manage to dress themselves.
“We assumed she was a boy.”
I know, makes you wonder what their first clue was.
Pesky doctors handing out sex “assignments” anyway, the nerve… :P
The rest! Given the way the mother speaks and the name Rainbow, I’m picking an overly indulgent house hold full of Goop products, unicorn farts and a rich layer of fatuousness to soften life’s edges.
Simple. Just change the organisations’ names from ‘Boy Scouts’ to ‘People Scouts’ and from ‘Girl Guides’ to ‘People Guides.’ What could be more inclusive?
Ah, yes. The most special of special children. Looks like a boy, behaves like a stereotypical boy, but is really a girl. Not just trans, but also gender non-conforming.
Someone needs to check to see if Piaget’s cognitive development theories are transphobic and remove his name from the historical records if so. It’s just crazy that he taught that small people only can know so much about themselves as they reach a progressing level of cognitive insights and abilities to discern. I mean, Rainbos is proof that a child can navigate and understand the roles of gender that
hesorry, she, fits in and if is sex is wrong then that’s the doctor’s fault. Andhe’ssorry again, she’s only 7!Unless it’s mommy that’s realized this and is pushing it on him because she was too late to have an indigo child.
Girl Guides never really had to face the massive wave of liability from failures of child protection that brought Scouts in several countries to their knees. I can see that changing in the next decade or so.
Well, except, of course, the actual girls. Who cares how they feel? If they don’t “feel like they belong,” sucks to be them.