Please stop calling your all boy troops "Boy Scout Troops". It's hurting other troops
If you are a leader for a boy only troop, please keep an open mind when I ask this. Please stop calling it a "Boy Scout Troop", especially on flyers and signs.
I dropped my son off for staff week at camp last week. I had nice chats with the adult leaders I know while I helped unload all of his stuff. A large portion of the staff is from a coed crew and they have always done a great job at making the girl troops who come not feel like an afterthought.
I overheard one of the girls, who was wearing her class b venture shirt, tell another that at a rest stop on her drive over she had to explain that she wasn't a Girl Scout, but a Venturer. She was shaking her head. My daughter has this conversation monthly with one person or another who doesn't understand that Scouting America is coed now and that she isn't a girl scout and can't sell them cookies.
On the drive back, ten minutes from the camp, I saw a giant banner for a fundraising pancake dinner. At the bottom it said "to benefit BOY SCOUT TROOP #". They had included the Scout America logo and everything.
Please stop calling it Boy Scouts. The program is Scouts BSA and the organization operates as Scouting America. I know a lot of troops are still just boys, but I'm asking everyone to make a concerted effort to stop using that term. It's not fair to the girl troops or the coed troops. If
Let's make the girls feel welcomed and not an afterthought. It's been seven years. It's been long enough that we've had girls make eagle and become scoutmasters of their old troop.