据战争部长皮特·赫格塞斯（Pete Hegseth）透露，Scouting America（该组织此前名为美国童子军）已同意进行多项改革。
该组织正面临美国战争部的压力，后者威胁要撤回其支持。
在周五发布的视频声明中，赫格塞斯表示，他”一直在非常认真地考虑完全终止对童子军的支持”，指责该组织采用了”激进的、觉醒的意识形态”。
但他称该组织已同意实施五项变革，并指出还有更多变革在考虑中。
“首先，Scouting America已同意立即遵守第14173号行政命令的规定。这包括审查并替换整个组织、项目和所有出版物中带有政治色彩、分裂性和歧视性的语言。不再有多元化、公平与包容（DEI）相关内容，零容忍，”他宣称。
他表示，与DEI相关的 merit badge（功绩徽章）已被取消。
“第三，Scouting America将修改其政策，明确成员资格仅基于出生时的生理性别，而非性别认同，”他说道。
“这意味着，任何申请都将只有两种性别标识——男性和女性，且申请必须与申请人的出生证明相符。童子军还将明确，生理性别不同的男孩和女孩不得共用或占用私密空间，如厕所、淋浴间、帐篷及其他类似场所。
“第四，Scouting America将通过豁免现役、国民警卫队和预备役军人家庭子女的注册费用来表彰服务成员，”他指出。”第五，Scouting America将与战争部合作，推出新的军事服务 merit badge。”
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该组织在周五的声明中表示：”Scouting America 自豪地通过与战争部重新建立并加强伙伴关系，坚持我们长期以来对全球军人家庭的承诺。”
“在过去几个月里，我们与国防部领导层进行了对话，就如何深化对军人家庭的服务达成共识，同时对项目进行更新以符合第14173号行政命令的要求。
“今天，我们将推进实施新的项目内容，以实现这一使命：为军人家庭减免注册费用，推出聚焦军事服务和退伍军人的新 merit badge，并重申对童子军核心理念的承诺：培养领导力、品格、对上帝的责任、对国家的责任和服务精神，”声明中写道。
本月早些时候，战争部公共事务助理部长肖恩·帕内尔（Sean Parnell）在X平台（原推特）上发文称：”我们对战争部向Scouting America提供的财政援助和伙伴关系（包括其四年一度的全国童子军大会庆祝活动）的审查一直严格且持续进行。”
赫格塞斯在周五的视频声明中表示，该部门将在六个月内评估该组织的改革进展。
他称，战争部对Scouting America的支持”取决于他们在未来六个月内向这些以及许多其他积极变革取得实质性进展”。
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“如果我们对Scouting America在商定改革方面的进展和承诺不满意，我们将认定其违反总统行政命令，并停止支持，”他说道。
“理想情况下，我认为童子军应该回到最初创立时的样子，即一个培养男孩成长为男人的团体。也许有一天会实现。”
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Scouting America, the organization previously known as the Boy Scouts of America, has agreed to make several changes, according to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
The group is under pressure from the U.S. Department of War, which has threatened to yank its support.
In a video message issued Friday, Hegseth said he had been “very seriously considering ending our support of scouting altogether,” accusing the group of adopting “radical, woke ideology.”
But he said the organization has agreed to implement changes, mentioning five, while indicating there were more.
“First, Scouting America has agreed to comply immediately with the provisions of Executive Order 14173. This includes reviewing and replacing politicized, divisive, and discriminatory language throughout the organization, programs, and all publications. No more DEI, zero,” he declared.
He said that a DEI-related merit badge has been discontinued.
“Third, Scouting America will modify its policy to make clear that membership will be based solely on biological sex at birth and not gender identity,” he said.
“That means that the application, any application, will have only two sex designations, male and female, and the application must match the applicant’s birth certificate. Scouting will also make clear that biological boys and girls will not be allowed to occupy or share intimate spaces together. Toilets, showers, tents, anywhere like that.
“Fourth, Scouting America will honor those who serve by waiving the registration fees for children of active duty, guard, and reserve families,” he noted. “Fifth, in partnership with the War Department, Scouting America will introduce a new military service merit badge.”
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“Scouting America is proud to uphold our longstanding commitment to military families across the globe through a renewed, strengthened partnership with the Department of War,” the organization said in a statement Friday.
“Over several months, we engaged in dialogue with Department leadership to align on how we could deepen our service to military families, while making programmatic updates to comply with Executive Order 14173.
“Today we are moving forward with implementing new programmatic elements that deliver on that mission: waiving registration fees for military families, launching a new merit badge focused on military service and veterans, and reinforcing our commitment to Scouting’s foundational ideas: leadership, character, duty to God, duty to country and service,” the release noted.
Earlier this month, Assistant to the Secretary of War for Public Affairs Sean Parnell said in a post on X, “Our review of the DoW’s financial assistance and partnership with Scouting America, including its quadrennial National Jamboree celebration, has been rigorous and ongoing.”
Hegseth said in his video message Friday the department will evaluate the group’s progress in six months.
He said the Department of War’s “support for Scouting America is contingent on them making substantial progress toward reaching these and many other positive changes in the next six months.”
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“If we’re unsatisfied with Scouting America’s progress toward and commitment to the agreed-upon reforms, we will find them in violation of the president’s executive order and cease our support,” he said.
“Ideally, I believe the Boy Scouts should go back to being the Boy Scouts, as originally founded, a group that develops boys into men. Maybe someday.”
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