Organization will become Scouting America after decades of turmoil and flagging membership numbers

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  • gregorum@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    I made it to Boy Scout Silver arrow. How far did you get?

    I just liked the getting away from my shitty family, getting outdoors, and learning new ways I could connect with the world around me. I never had any problems myself.

    My own lgbtq journey was… unrelated to my time in the Scouts.

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      6 months ago

      Not far at all lol. I got to like star and dropped out because I only really liked the camping and my father didn’t like that I wasn’t trying to do more right around the time my dysphoria was kicking into extreme depression. Though since I’ve grown up I’ve slept with far more Eagle Scouts than most lesbians.

      The only issues I really faced were the toxic masculinity that permeated a small portion of it and me having my ass kicked from time to time.

      And yeah it was unrelated to my understanding of my queerness. Well except in certain ways. It impacted how I carry myself in the queer community. Especially giving me a tendency to lead when nobody else will.

      He’ll back when I was in we were mad they were kicking out gay people and I had met the girls in other countries’ scouting orgs and was pissed at the fact that girls couldn’t join us.