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  A reply on Conversation: Should the Girl Scouts Allow Transgender Students to Join the Organization?

  Jan 16 2012: Who are you to tell anyone, boy, girl, or transgender, what their place in the world is? Just because you clearly believe that transgendered people are sick and wrong, doesn't necessarily make it so. There are millions who would agree, and millions more who would disagree.
  I was a girl scout all the way through school, and the emphasis was always on inclusion and understanding, even for those with physical disabilities or mental illnesses. Although I disagree that transgenderism is either of these, if you view it as such, then that alone should prohibit this young person from being excluded.
  Perhaps, having not been a girl scout yourself, only vicariously involved through your daughter, you were not able to benefit from the Girl Scouts lessons and atmosphere of tolerance. It seems a shame to keep your daughter, or any other girl in the organization, from a chance to broaden their understanding of humans in all their glorious variations, and decide for themselves whether to accept or reject.