Is This Transgender Issue Being Taken Too Far?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4144118/BOYS-Girl-Guides-think-wrong-gender.html

/// They add that it is not ‘best practice’ to tell parents their daughters will be sharing facilities such as sleeping areas and toilets with transgender girls, who are born male, during trips away. ///

Wow!! I wonder how many 'boys' can't wait until summer camp?

[Old_Geezer]

Sounds a bit one sided to me. I'm sure girls are able to become scouts without claiming that they feel they are the gender they're not, already. So how come boys have to make such a claim in order to be a guide ? Once rational rules have been abandoned then surely there should be equal opportunities in either direction ?

[jourdain2]

Yes, it is being taken too far ............ and I'm quite glad now that eldest grandsprog decided that she is so busy with other activities that she no longer had the time for Brownies or GGs.

[cassa333]

Girls can join scouts as girls, they don't need to pretend. Therefore all the safeguarding is in place.

Having boys and men in guiding and not being told is absolutely unacceptable. As a parent I should be told if there are men in attendance and not one single one of them should be in any way involved with their sleepi/grooming arrangements.

How dare Guiding say it is not best practice to tell parents? How dare they enforce political correctness above parental control.

[Jackdaw33]

I think the phrase 'best practice' should come in for some scrutiny too. To me it merely means the latest 'right-on thinking'.

[Zacs-Master]

Cassa, I quite agree. The tables have tipped too far. Hope there's a backlash against this from parents. The organisation must be run by PC morons.

[douglas9401]

It could just be that project misery and confusion in everyday life is being rolled out across younger people now that adults have had the new world order drummed into them.
Can't have kids growing up un-pigeonholed when there's a few quid to be made by ologists.

[SnookerPlayer]

Oh for the good old days of boys and girls. Now we have boys and girls and don't knows, crazy.

[Garaman]

Oh for the good old days of boys and girls; boys are now reading girls' newspapers it seems.

[vortex]

...and in the US a little while back:-

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2053852/Bobby-Montoya-Colorado-Girl-Scouts-say-yes-BOY-wants-join-them.html