Tough cookies, a Manhattan federal judge told the Girl Scouts on Thursday as he tossed a lawsuit complaining that the Boy Scouts’ decision to go gender neutral hurts the the girl organization’s brand.
Judge Alvin Hellerstein said in a 29-page decision that the Boy Scout organization was well within its rights to use the broad term “Scouting” to market itself without putting the word “boy” before it.
Hellerstein said it didn’t matter that some parents looking to enroll their daughters in the Girl Scouts mistakenly signed them up in the newly-gender neutral Boy Scouts organization.
“The Boy Scouts adopted the Scout Terms to describe accurately the co-ed nature of programming, not to confuse or exploit Girl Scouts’ reputation,” Hellerstein wrote.
“The Boy Scouts’ decision to become co-ed, even if it affects Girl Scouts’ operations, does not demonstrate bad faith.”
Hellerstein said the examples of parents mistakenly signing their child up for the wrong group were “anecdotal.”
The Girl Scouts of the United States of America sued the Boy Scouts of America in 2018, saying it wrongfully crossed the gender line by poaching potential female members from its organization.
The Girl Scouts alleged that the Boy Scouts use of the gender-neutral term “Scout” to refer to its members and its new slogan “Scout Me In” would “marginalize” the Girl Scouts’ brand.
The “serious, contentious and expensive litigation,” as Hellerstein referred to it in the ruling, wound its way through the court until Thursday.
The Boy Scouts continue to market the experience to any child, with photos of beaming girls and boys gracing its website, Scouting.org, and all its membership options stating clearly that it is co-ed.
Both groups have suffered membership declines in recent years.
Neither the Boy Scouts nor the Girl Scouts immediately responded to a request for comment.
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Unless you hate your children and you want them to be indoctrinated to the “Woke” LGBTQ perversions, You won’t let your children have ANYTHING to do with this sexually perverted boyish scouties.
“Despite an earlier denial to Congress, the Boy Scouts of America have now admitted that sexual predators were allowed to return to scouting “decades ago” even after “credible accusations of sexual abuse.”
“There have been thousands of cases involving sexual abuse between the scouts and their leaders or adult volunteers. The Boy Scouts are a magnet for men who are looking for sexual relationships with young boys, and the Girl Scouts are just as dangerous for young girls.”
Anyone who allows their children to join either of these organizations should lose their parental rights.
AND any kid who WANTS TO join them, needs to get an MRI, to ensure they still have a brain!
Amazing the far left wing girl scouts are complaining that the boy scouts are going wacko leftist, too. I don’t buy anything that has to do with ANY scouts.
Why not have an organization for those that were born without testicles only. If this is illegal, can a non-black (white, Asian, Latino) join naacp?
Once again, the leftist, baby killing, disgusting sub humans, have destroyed two more organizations. Now they’re aiming for Disney. Come on parents, you’ve done it before, do it once again! Shut these leftists, perverts down.
They’ve been in control of Disney for years.. ITS NOT A new “Target”..