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- 赫格塞斯：童军成员资格将基于生物性别
- 组织声明变性童军仍受欢迎
- 国防部长称协议根除了“激进觉醒意识形态”
2月27日（路透社）——国防部长彼得·赫格塞斯周五表示，美国童军协会（Scouting America）已与五角大楼达成协议，旨在铲除其政策和项目中的“激进觉醒意识形态”，并恢复“仅基于出生时生物性别的成员资格”。
但在其概述同一协议的声明中，Scouting America对变性青少年现在将被该组织排除在外的说法提出异议。
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“我们服务所有青年的使命和承诺并未改变，”Scouting America在解释该协议的新闻稿中表示，该协议是与国防部达成的，旨在维护与美国军方长期以来的密切联系。
“我们的项目中一直有变性人，未来也将继续有变性人加入，”Scouting America总裁兼首席执行官罗杰·克罗恩在另一份声明中表示。
近年来，该组织在一系列与性别相关的变革中受到社会保守派的批评：2015年取消了对公开同性恋成年领导者和员工的禁令，2017年迎来首位变性成员，2018年向女童开放会员资格，并于次年停止使用“童子军”这一名称。
美国女童童军协会（Girl Scouts of the USA）仍是一个独立的青年组织。
赫格塞斯表示，美国武装部队对Scouting America的持续支持（包括将军事基地用于全国童子军大露营和其他活动）取决于该组织遵守协议条款。
他概述的主要要点之一是遵守2025年1月唐纳德·特朗普总统第14173号行政令，该令旨在终止以“更大多样性、公平和包容”（DEI）为名推行的基于种族和性别的政策及项目偏好。
“这意味着童军组织中‘不再有DEI’，‘零容忍’，”他强调。
周五发布的一段视频中，赫格塞斯表示，童军组织偏离了其作为“培养男孩成为男人”的“基础使命”，转而拥抱“一种反美且反美国价值观的阴险激进觉醒意识形态”。
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“他们甚至欢迎性别流动性和变性主义这一破坏性谬论渗透到其成员中，”他说。
为解决这一问题，Scouting America将“修改其政策，明确成员资格将仅基于出生时的生物性别，而非性别认同”，赫格塞斯表示。
“任何申请表格将仅提供男性和女性两个性别选项，且申请必须与申请人的出生证明一致，”他说。
此外，赫格塞斯补充道，“生物性别为男性和女性的青少年不得共用私密空间，如厕所、淋浴间和露营帐篷。”
克罗恩表示，Scouting America的申请表格已要求申请者选择男孩或女孩，并询问其出生性别。
“我们不会将男孩和女孩安排在私密空间共处，为了做到这一点，我们需要了解他们的情况，”克罗恩解释道。
否则，Scouting America称，它已对多项未具体说明的“项目更新”以遵守第14173号行政令。
双方均表示，其他达成共识的变更包括：Scouting America将停用赫格塞斯谴责为宣扬DEI的“社会公民” merit badge（荣誉徽章），转而推出新的“军事服务” merit badge；Scouting America将对现役、国民警卫队和预备役家庭的子女豁免注册费。
自1910年成立以来，Scouting America作为美国最大的青年组织之一，已服务约1.3亿年轻人。
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Scouting America reaches accord with Pentagon to maintain military support
February 28, 2026 3:08 AM UTC / Reuters
Members of Scouting America, formerly the Boy Scouts of America, attend the annual Veteran’s Day Parade in New York City, U.S., November 11, 2024. REUTERS/Kent J. Edwards/File Photo [Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab]
- Hegseth: Scouting membership to be based on biological sex
- Organization declares transgender Scouts remain welcome
- Defense Secretary says deal roots out ‘radical woke ideology’
Feb 27 (Reuters) – Scouting America has reached an accord with the Pentagon that aims to rid its policies and programs of “radical woke ideology” and restore membership “based solely on biological sex at birth,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday.
But in its own statements outlining the same agreement, Scouting America disputed the notion that transgender youth would now be excluded from the organization, formerly known as Boy Scouts of America.
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“Our mission and commitment to serving all youth remains unchanged,” Scouting America said in a press release explaining the agreement, which it said was reached with the Defense Department to preserve historically close ties to the U.S. military.
“We have transgender people in our program, and we’ll have transgender people in our program going forward,” Scouting America President and Chief Executive Officer Roger Krone said in a separate statement.
In a series of gender-related changes criticized by social conservatives in recent years, the organization lifted its ban on openly gay adult leaders and employees in 2015, welcomed its first transgender member in 2017 and opened its ranks to girls in 2018. It ceased calling members “Boy Scouts” the following year.
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Girl Scouts of the USA remains a separate youth organization.
Hegseth said U.S. armed forces’ continued support for Scouting America, including the use of military bases for national Scout jamborees and other events, was contingent on the organization abiding by the terms of the agreement.
One of the main points he outlined was compliance with President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14173 in January 2025, seeking to end race- and sex-based policy and program preferences instituted in the name of greater “diversity, equity and inclusion,” or DEI.
That means “no more DEI” in Scouting, “zero,” he said.
In a video message released on Friday, Hegseth said Scouting had strayed from its “foundational” mission as an institution that “develops boys into men,” embracing instead “an insidious radical woke ideology that is anti-America and anti-American.”
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“They even welcomed the destructive myth of gender fluidity and transgenderism to infiltrate their membership,” he said.
To address this issue, Scouting America would “modify its policy to make clear that membership will be based solely on biological sex at birth and not gender identity,” Hegseth said.
“Any application will have only two sex designations, male and female, and the application must match the applicant’s birth certificate,” he said.
In addition, Hegseth said, “biological boys and girls will not be allowed to occupy intimate spaces together, such as toilets, showers and camping tents.”
Krone said Scouting applicants are already presented with a binary choice of boy or girl on their forms and are already asked about their birth sex.
“We do not put boys and girls together in intimate spaces and in order to do that we need to have some knowledge of who they are,” Krone explained.
Otherwise, Scouting America said it had made various unspecified “programmatic updates to comply with Executive Order 14173.”
Among other changes both sides said were agreed to, Scouting America will discontinue its “Citizenship in Society” merit badge, which Hegseth branded as promoting DEI, and launch a new “Military Service” merit badge instead. Registration fees also will be waived for children of active-duty, Guard and Reserve families, the parties said.
Scouting America, one of the largest youth organizations in the U.S., has served an estimated 130 million young people since its inception in 1910.
Reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles: Editing by Kate Mayberry
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