What is this fuckwittery?

[gaudior]

So, I am making a principled call to action that everyone buy more Girl Scout cookies.

No, seriously--

Some transphobic fuckwits are calling for a boycott. Because when a little transgirl asked to join the Girl Scouts, the Girl Scouts of Colorado thought it over and released an official statement that "if a child identifies as a girl and the child's family presents her as a girl, Girl Scouts of Colorado welcomes her as a Girl Scout."

Now, you can argue that just by being the Girl Scouts, the organization is gender-essentialist, and worry about what happens to transboys who come out after years of being Girl Scouts, etc. But I think that's less important than the fact that the Girl Scouts are a huge international organization which affects the lives of thousands of kids, and they're doing the right thing, and they're going to be taking some heat for it. So, y'know, buy cookies! If you're vegan, buy cookies and give them to your friends! Email the Girl Scouts and tell them standing up for the rights of transgender girls is a good thing to do! And so forth!

--R

Comments

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

I like to think it was fate that I found out that they will, in fact, have a new lemon cookie this year, and emailed my wife to make her email our temple's troop mom and add a box or three to our order.

Whether Savannah Smiles will ever compete with the Lemon Chalet Creme (departed) I do not know, but my pudge feels vindicated.

(In re the GS/BS thing, I am so glad we had a daughter. The Boy Scouts are just... ghastly on the queer rights/human rights record.)

[sovay]

Whether Savannah Smiles will ever compete with the Lemon Chalet Creme (departed) I do not know, but my pudge feels vindicated.

Wait, what happened to the Lemon Chalet Creme? Please tell me they still make Samoas and Do-Si-Dos.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Yes, but the Lemon Chalet Creme went to its reward last year and was replaced by some cranberry-white chocolate unacceptability. I was, to use the vernacular, pissed.