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The Scouts and the non-binary butterfly 🦋

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lcakethereforeIam · 05/11/2024 10:19

Saw this article in the Telegraph

https://archive.ph/kBENd

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/04/why-are-the-scouts-plying-our-children-with-woke-nonsense/

Eta add link and

I know the Scouts accepts both boys and girls, has done for years, and they were lackadaisical about the sleeping arrangements of kids and leaders who claimed trans identities, but this seems a whole new level of fucked up!

Is Bear Grylls still Chief Scout? Is he actually a bear?

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WarriorN · 05/11/2024 10:31

There's the activity on the scout website Angry

www.scouts.org.uk/activities/pronoun-pairs/

MarieDeGournay · 05/11/2024 10:30

I can't help wondering - sorry to cast doubts but... is this real? I googled 'Billy [not a very NB name, is it?] the Non Binary Butterfly' and all I got were reports condemning it, but no link to its existence.

I searched on the Scouts UK website and the only hit I got was
'Billy can breakfast beans' - which I think is beyond the capability of any butterfly, NB or not Smile

Any actual links to the original source of this?

WarriorN · 05/11/2024 10:30

It's Dwayne now.

Going to have to start taking more note of what my son is doing at scouts.... mind you, knowing the lads a little, pro nouns will be ridiculed.

There's also a lot of girls who are clear they're girls.

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lcakethereforeIam · 05/11/2024 10:27

Butterfly Conservation are transphobic bigots then...or sane. Hard to tell the difference.

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WarriorN · 05/11/2024 10:27

It's not Bear anymore (did I see him going a bit woo with Russel Brand?) he stepped down.

Chersfrozenface · 05/11/2024 10:24

Butterflies can't be non-binary.

To quote Butterfly Conservation "..like humans, butterflies are either male or female. They mate, joining the tips of their abdomens, and the male passes sperm to the female in order to fertilize her eggs. The female then lays her eggs on plants or on the ground."

Some biology lessons - and some on wildlife and conservation - would do the Scouts a lot more good.

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