Bad-Ass Local Girl Scouts Turn Away Trans-Exclusive Donor: “It’s all about inclusivity”
The Girl Scouts of Western Washington gave back a fat donation this week, citing the donor’s bullshit qualifications about who the money could or couldn’t benefit.
“When our council, which serves over 25,000 girls across 17 counties, was recently given a $100,000 donation to help girls participate in Girl Scouts, we were thrilled!” wrote PR director Stefanie Ellis in a press release today.
“When the fact that Girl Scouts welcomes transgender girls was recently in the news, the donor asked us to return the gift unless we could guarantee the money wouldn’t help transgender girls.We said we couldn’t guarantee such a thing because Girl Scouts is for EVERY girl. And we gave the money back.”
The news the Girl Scouts made was back in May, when they announced that they’d be open to any and all girls, cis or otherwise.
“If a girl is recognized by her family, school and community as a girl and lives culturally as a girl, Girl Scouts is an organization that can serve her in a setting that is both emotionally and physically safe. Inclusion of transgender girls is handled at a council level on a case by case basis, with the welfare and best interests of all members as a top priority,” wrote Andrea Bastiani Archibald, Ph.D. and Chief Girl Expert in a blog post last month.
Naturally, a bunch of exclusive bigoted d-bags tried to protest, but GSUSA was like “haters to the left, this is happening, get on the train.”
The Girl Scouts are being gracious AF in keeping the name of the donor private, but to be honest, we sort of wish they’d name-and-shame so that we can know who not to support in the future.
If you want to support the Girl Scouts by putting up some inclusive, intersectional, beneficial-for-all money of your own, they’ve started an IndieGoGo drive to recoup the funds.
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