Area Brownies Support Transgender Girl Scout

Maplewood mom Laura Booker was skeptical when her daughter wanted to join the Girl Scouts organization:

As a kid, being a girl scout was the last thing I had ever wanted mostly because I couldn’t fathom wearing the dress, and as an adult, I want to raise a kid who is progressive and feminist and not stuck in the 1950s (which was the assumption I made about the Girl Scouts).

But Booker found the Girl Scouts to be a broader-thinking organization than she had anticipated:

I couldn’t have foreseen that joining the Brownies would be such a rich opportunity for Emma and a couple of her friends from the troop to show support for a transgender girl named Bobby Montoya who is a Girl Scout in Colorado. This was a story that Emma could relate to – a little girl who wanted to be a Girl Scout – and therefore was the perfect example to teach her about being an ally and accepting people for who they are and who they say they are.

Watch the video that Booker's daughter and friends made to support Montoya atttached. Read Booker's full accounting of this story on her blog, Queering the Mind, here.