The world of camping and scouting, once known for instilling leadership values and creating lifelong friendships, has been infiltrated by a movement that sees childhood as a political playground. The Boy Scouts started taking a turn for the worse after decades-long sexual abuse by troop leaders came to light, with over 80,000 men saying they were abused. This scandal led them to declare bankruptcy. Instead of choosing to rebuild and create an organization that truly promotes healthy child development, they’ve decided to embrace a radical rebranding. They welcomed girls into the Cub Scouts and later scrapped their iconic name for the neutered "Scouting America.” The backlash was immediate. Eagle Scouts, veterans, and parents felt alienated by an organization that seemed more interested in ideological pandering than in the well-being of children. It goes to show that no child's space is safe from the reach of a movement that seeks to blur biological reality and endanger our youth. This is the deliberate dismantling of an institution that shaped generations of young men! It makes you wonder if 'Scouting America' is just trying to save face after declaring bankruptcy from having to shell out millions of dollars in legal damages. We see right through their corporate cover-up.
As always, our fans at Media Matters wrote a hit piece, citing Gays Against Groomers’ firm stance against the rebrand as an example of right-wing pundits pushing anti-LGBTQ messaging to stir up bigotry. But the Boy Scouts rebranding was not an isolated incident. They are just the latest victim of a wider contagion infecting scouting and summer camps nationwide. These were once havens for kids to escape the pressures of school and discover their potential in the great outdoors. Now, many camps are being rebranded as “gender-inclusive” and repurposed into laboratories for gender experimentation, where children as young as eight are encouraged to announce "preferred pronouns" and are housed according to these fluid identities, not their safety or biological needs. Camps that once emphasized teamwork and resilience now promote "gender affirmation" above all else. Counselors, often barely out of their teens, are tasked with navigating the complex mental health needs of prepubescent children questioning their identity.
CampOUT! is a summer camp in British Columbia for queer, trans, Two-Spirit, questioning, and allied youth with campers as young as 14. They specialize in "drag workshops" where drag queens encourage campers to "explore identity and what it means to be human." That sounds a little culty, don't ya think? According to their website, "Cabins are organized by AGE! … It is a helpful way to organize cabins to be gender inclusive!" This means mixed-sex sleeping arrangements and facilities where boys and girls will be housed together. What could possibly go wrong? Drag is not for kids. And any parent who knowingly sends their kids away to such a place needs a reality check.
Camp Indigo, as described on its website, is a "summer day camp for transgender and gender diverse youth in California, Colorado, Ohio, and Texas." The camp claims that everything they do "benefits the community" and that they are "honoring our intersectional identities, protecting spaces for our most marginalized campers and staff, and celebrating the magic that is being trans." They claim to push inclusivity, but the camp only includes “transgender and non-binary children,” explicitly excluding anyone who doesn't go by special pronouns. Adding to the controversy, Camp Indigo offers activities including attending Pride events. “Camp Indigo teens participate in off-campus pride events that occur during the camp day. Also, gear up for an on-campus trans prom!” As we have seen from the exhibitionism run amok in the streets this past month, it is safe to say that these events have become increasingly explicit, often featuring attendees in kink-related clothing, widespread nudity, public displays of fetishes and sex acts, a Pride Parade is the last thing a child should ever be subjected to.
It has been reported that the camp's environment can lead to children feeling pressured to make “gender-affirming changes” they might not have previously considered. According to their website, “it isn't uncommon for teens (especially) to see/learn about possibilities that they hadn't yet considered and to feel a strong need to make gender affirming changes … We really encourage avoiding statements like, ‘what if you change your mind?’ This doesn't typically land well with our kiddos!” Not only is Camp Indigo a hotbed for social contagion, but parents who send their kids there are told to obey and affirm whatever identity their child comes home with. Camp Indigo says that a healthy transition is “one that is child-led,” noting that kids “need to feel like they’re in charge, because it’s their body. As caretakers and adults in these kids' lives, we really have to prioritize these opportunities to truly convey that the child has that autonomy.” The camp serves minors aged 5-17, divided into three groups: ages 5–11, 12–13, and 14–17. The camp for the youngest children, aged 5-11, is particularly concerning. At such a young age, children should be playing outdoors and learning social skills at summer camp, not being groomed into an identity crisis that only hormone injections can fix. It starts with pronouns, but when a child is considering pursuing a medical route, Camp Indigo has the resources for them and provides guidance from the activist clinicians themselves. Dr. Ilana Sherer, who is considered a pioneer in “gender-affirming care,” discussed fertility preservation methods for children who have had their puberty blocked in an interview with Camp Indigo. “Though I haven’t had any of my trans masculine patients harvest eggs, some of my trans feminine patients have undergone experimental testicular tissue preservation,” she said, referring to a testicular biopsy. This is a very controversial procedure where child butchers remove a portion of the underdeveloped testicle, freeze it, and hope that some stem cells are available in the future to harvest (Costa, 2023). If a child is not even mature enough to produce gametes, then they are most definitely not mature enough to remove part of their testicle. No child can consent to such grotesque experimentation. Children are not lab rats.
Where were all of these "trans kids" twenty, ten, or even five years ago? What was once a vanishingly rare medical condition and niche subculture has managed to spread like wildfire among children, to the point where they now have their own summer camps. In 2020, Dr. Ilana Sherer spoke very fondly about the sharp rise in children identifying as transgender and nonbinary, stating that “Kids are now taught they can be whoever they want to be. We’re breaking down this imaginary social binary that tells you what each gender should do, but we’re also telling kids that you are in charge of how you live your best life and your best self.” It is extremely alarming that an organization openly boasts about specifically targeting children who express discomfort with their biological sex in such a manner. These “trans camps” are just taking advantage as a means to control and program the next generation according to their own agenda.
Alabama lawmakers even tried to intervene and add Space Camp to their extended Parental Rights in Education bill. Space Camp is a place where children learn about NASA, the space shuttle program, and our nation’s history in space. Children always stayed in sex-separated dorms with male counselors overseeing boys and female counselors overseeing girls. Well, that no longer seems to be the case. An Alabama Space Camp witnessed an uproar over its trans-activist employee when evidence of online misconduct surfaced in a Facebook post by Clay Yarbrough, the parent of a potential attendee. "My daughter was planning on going to Space Camp next week, but we have just found out that this freak is a team lead and a hall monitor in the girls' dorms and at times, could be allowed to be alone in the halls at night." Another concerned parent commented on Yarbrough's post, stating, “Molly was in the same room with female children campers where the directors told us personally that ‘Molly’ isn’t allowed to be.” Molly Bowman, the staff member in question, has a history of promoting the radical trans agenda to minors and adults. Bowman frequently boasts about exposing others to 'gender-affirming' imagery and messages. Bowman posted a picture of a notebook adorned with several “gender-affirming stickers” to use at his new Space Camp job.
Molly Bowman’s now-hidden Twitter account contains multiple problematic images and posts with violent and sexually charged content, including references to cross-dressing and being 'a girl that has a dick.' It is both concerning and alarming that Space Camp, once a beloved institution, seems to have prioritized diversity over the safety and comfort of its campers by hiring people who parents simply cannot trust. The post also revealed that one of their former Camp Counselors, Chase Derek Flatau, was arrested for POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. Despite backlash, Bowman has only been transferred out of Space Camp, not fired from the organization altogether.
As children, we had summer camps and scouting organizations where we could join and learn to grow. Our parents often worked hard to shield us from what could best be described as the horrors of the world. Today, however, it seems many adults are indifferent to what children, including their own, are exposed to. If parents want to send their son or daughter to summer camp without them coming back radicalized, they should make sure to look into who is running it first and know what they're signing their kid up for.
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