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“This Government must be held responsible for the long-lasting damage they are doing to a generation of LGBTQ+ people.”
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What does “girl guides” even mean? An association of underage non-male tourist guides?
https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/
Scouts is a different organisation - https://www.scouts.org.uk/
ironic that the “girl guides” advertise their youngest as the “Rainbows” and the title page advertises
To elaborate:
Girl Scouts of America–the group people in the US are mostly familiar with–is part of The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. The GSA was founded in 1912, prior to WAGGGS. The first counterpart to the Boy Scouts was Girl Guides, founded in the UK in 1910, the year after Robert Baden-Powell started the Boy Scouts/Scouting movement. GSA was founded in 1912, WAGGGS in '28.
The org that you’re referencing–scouting.org–is the group that org formerly known as Boy Scouts of America is part of. Different national groups do things differently; I recall that Scouting in Europe was co-ed in the mid/late 90s, but the group FKA BSA didn’t start allowing girls until 2017, when it formally dropped ‘Boy’ from their name. (I think that it’s just Scouting America now?)
Since Scouting is internationally a co-ed group now, it would be a little ridiculous for them to ban transgender youth. AFAIK, GSA specifically is open to allowing transgirls (I’m not sure about transboys?), but it might depend on which organization is sponsoring a troop.
That said, IMO WAGGGS should disaffiliate Girl Guides UK from the international org.