Cookie Boycott – Eddie Jahn

Posted on January 24, 2012 by jahne92

Taylor has been a Girl Scout in California for eight years and now  is calling for a boycott on Girl Scout Cookies. She has a problem with the GSUSA (Girls Scouts of the USA) letting in transgender boys into the Girls Scouts.  The Girl Scouts of Colorado welcome a girl as a Girl Scout if a child identifies herself as a girl, and her family presents her as a girl too. Taylor’s argument is for the safety of Girl Scouts, and the fact that they would be spending overnight trips together. Also where the transgender children would use the bathroom, and the fact that a boy is in the Girl Scouts.

The safety of fellow girl scout members is an issue because the Girl Scouts is supposed to be ” a place where girls relate to other girls, and be yourself, and to look how you want to look”. What Taylor does not realize is that transgender children are becoming more accepted into the gender they wish to be. They want to relate to other girls and be themselves ( as girls), and look how they want to look (even if they look like a boy).  Taylor believes that transgender children will cause a problem, when in reality the Girl Scouts “hid” a boy, and there was no problem with that. Transgender children just want to be accepted as the gender they want to be. They want to do activities with other girls in an accepting environment.

Taylor is jumping the gun a little, because I do not think this issue calls for a boycott on Girl Scout cookies. It is an important topic to bring up and discuss, but it should be brought up within the Girl Scout Organization.  Listeners would take this information as an issue but as I said they would not think a boycott would be an appropriate action to take. Since on television shows such as Degrassi  have a transgender character going through issues such as this one I think the public would just want the Girl Scout Organization to discuss the issue, and come out with an appropriate solution. Transgender issues are becoming more and more public now, so the public is accepting the children’s decision to choose their gender.

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1 Response to Cookie Boycott – Eddie Jahn

  1. davidbdale's avatar davidbdale says:
    February 7, 2012 at 11:48 am

    Eddie, your introduction starts well enough (you might sharpen your pronouns a bit in the sequence “Girl Scouts of Colorado welcome a girl as a Girl Scout if a child identifies herself as a girl, and her family presents her as a girl too,” but everybody has trouble with this). Your last two sentences, though, don’t say anything clearly. Taylor’s argument “is for . . . and the fact” doesn’t identify the logic of her argument. “Where to use the bathroom . . . and the fact that a boy is in the Girl Scouts” has the same problem.

    Taylor may not clearly state her reasons, objections, or logic, but you have to be clear with your readers that such is the case. As it stands here, the fuzzy thinking looks like yours, not hers. See what I mean?

    Rule 7.

    Direct quotes only work when they fit the syntax of your own sentence, Eddie. If you read the “safety of fellow girl scout” sentence aloud without the quotation marks, you’ll hear that it makes no grammatical sense. If quotes don’t work this way, paraphrase.

    A couple of comments on your argument. Does every group have to adapt at the same rate? Does your acceptance of transgender as a legitimate gender obligate the Girl Scouts to accept it as well? Also, where is your evidence that the Girl Scouts “hid” a boy (and what do you mean by boy)? Maybe the girls in “his” troop were aware.

    You’re no doubt right that Girl Scouts, their troops, their state chapters, and the national organization, should all address the transgender question openly, Eddie, but how does that address the quality of Taylor’s argument?

    Grade Recorded.

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