The Boy Scouts of America have officially announced to the world that the word “boy” has no place in their literature any more. All of their instruction manuals, promotion materials, etc., have all replaced the word by with “youth.” Even when describing the past, the organization says things like “Scouting programs have instilled in youth the values found in the Scout Oath.”
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Excerpt from legalinsurrection.com
The left’s takeover of the Boy Scouts is complete. Another institution falls to progressive politics.
From Heather Mac Donald at City Journal:
Girling the Boy Scouts
The Boy Scouts of America has a Chief Diversity Officer & Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion. The organization requires all Eagle Scouts to earn a badge in diversity, equity, and inclusion. It admitted girls to its program for 11- to 17-year-old boys in 2019 and changed the name of that program from the Boy Scouts to Scouts BSA. The word “boy” has been routed from the organization’s promotional materials and replaced with “youth,” as in: “For more than 100 years, Scouting programs have instilled in youth the values found in the Scout Oath.”
Does it matter, then, that the Boy Scouts of America has now extirpated the last use of “boy” found in its entire portfolio—the “boy” in “Boy Scouts of America,” the name of the parent organization? It does. That the Boy Scouts cannot tolerate even an atavistic use of “boy” reveals how powerful the impulse is to efface males from our culture. The transformation of the Boy Scouts of America into Scouting America is an object lesson in the incapacity of traditional institutions to withstand progressive takeover.
