{"id":6561,"date":"2017-02-09T11:21:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T05:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=6561"},"modified":"2017-02-09T11:21:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T05:36:59","slug":"the-first-transgender-cub-scout-officially-joined-his-pack-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/the-first-transgender-cub-scout-officially-joined-his-pack-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"The first transgender Cub Scout officially joined his pack last night"},"content":{"rendered":"
Kathmandu (Pahichan) February 9 – \u00a0A New Jersey<\/a> boy has become the first openly transgender<\/a> member of the Boy Scouts<\/a> one week after the Boy Scouts of America<\/a> changed its policy to allow transgender children to join the organization.<\/div>\n

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\u201cI am accepted,\u201d Joe Maldonado said Tuesday night as he put on a Cub Scout uniform.<\/p>\n

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The Record<\/em> reported<\/a> the 9-year-old joined Pack 20 in Maplewood following the organization\u2019s decision to allow transgender scouts. Maldonado was banned from a Cub Scout group in Secaucus.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThis is fun; I\u2019m so proud,\u201d he said during the meeting.<\/p>\n

Scout leader Kyle Hackler taught Maldonado the Cub Scout salute and oath.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis means you\u2019re the same as Scouts all over the world,\u201d Hackler\"\" told Maldonado.<\/p>\n

The scout\u2019s mother, Kristie, said she was \u201cproud of the fight\u201d she had put up after the Northern New Jersey Council of Boy Scouts last year told her Joe would not be allowed to continue to be a member of Pack 87 in Secaucus.<\/p>\n

The Boy Scouts changed their policy of referring to the gender on birth certificates to determine eligibility last week after Maldonado\u2019s story gained national attention. Previously, the Boy Scouts overturned bans against gay scouts and scouting leaders.<\/p>\n

The organization released a statement welcoming the Maldonado family. \u201cMoving forward, the BSA<\/a> will continue to work to bring the benefits of our programs to as many children, families and communities as possible,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

Maldonado told the newspaper she had decided to bring her son to Maplewood because she did not want to go back to Secaucus, where she said scouting officials told her some parents had complained last year.<\/p>\n

Copy :\u00a0 Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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