Alternative Youth Organizations Benefit From Traditional Scouting Exodus

Members of the American Heritage Girls celebrate the joys of girlhood at a recent troop event. The organization is one of many faith-based youth programs benefitting from the loss of membership in the iconic Girls Scout of the USA. Courtesy of American Heritage Girls

Boys will be boys, and girls will be girls—sugar, spice, and puppy dog tails.

But it’s a mixed-up world today. Boyhood is now “toxic masculinity,” girls are learning to be more like boys, and gender fluidity is the new normal.