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五角大楼称，美国童子军协会将调整政策以维持美军支持
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国防部长彼得·赫格塞斯周五宣布，应五角大楼的要求，美国童子军协会（Scouting America）将调整多项政策，其中包括一项针对跨性别青少年的政策。 赫格塞斯正在推动一项反对军方支持“多元化、公平与包容”（DEI）举措的运动。
一些调整内容与该组织1月份向国防部提出的建议相呼应，包括取消“公民社会” merit badge（功绩徽章），引入“军事服务” merit badge，并豁免军人子女的注册费用。
在赫格塞斯的领导下，五角大楼将矛头对准了军方与美国童子军协会的合作关系，谴责其2024年从美国童子军（Boy Scouts）更名以及近年来的其他变化，认为这些是他想要根除的“觉醒文化”的一部分。
赫格塞斯在X平台（原推特）发布的视频中表示，五角大楼将“积极审查”该组织在六个月内所做的调整，如果未能遵守，将停止对其支持。
“我们希望这不会发生，但也有可能。”赫格塞斯说，“理想情况下，我认为美国童子军应该回到最初成立时的状态，一个将男孩培养成男人的组织。也许有一天会实现。”
总部位于得克萨斯州欧文市的美国童子军协会尚未立即作出回应。
该组织于2013年开始允许同性恋青少年加入，2015年结束了对同性恋成年领导者的全面禁令，并于2017年宣布将接纳跨性别学生。2018年开始允许女孩加入童军（Cub Scouts），2019年进入旗舰项目——更名为“Scouts BSA”的童子军项目。截至2024年5月，已有超过6000名女孩获得了梦寐以求的鹰级童子军（Eagle Scout）称号。
五角大楼本月早些时候在一份声明中表示，正在审查其与美国童子军协会的关系，称该组织“在许多方面迷失了方向”，并将其多元化、公平与包容举措称为“不可接受”。
2月6日的声明称：“美国童子军协会的领导层做出了与本届政府价值观背道而驰的决定，包括拥抱多元化、公平与包容（DEI）以及其他社会正义、性别流动等意识形态立场。”
五角大楼此前曾表示，如果该组织“迅速实施常识性的核心价值观改革”，他们和美国童子军协会正接近达成继续合作的协议。
声明称：“美国童子军协会虽然远非完美，但他们已坚定承诺回归核心原则，立即回到‘上帝与国家’的怀抱！”
美国军方与童子军有着长期联系，包括自1937年童子军全国大会（National Boy Scout Jamboree）创立以来，军方一直为其提供后勤支持。
军方还长期赞助美军基地内的童子军部队和活动，并与鹰级童子军保持着密切关系，这些成员往往会参军入伍。
去年，美国童子军协会对国家公共广播电台（NPR）的一则报道表示担忧，该报道称五角大楼计划削减对军事基地童子军项目、全国大会的支持，并取消对入伍鹰级童子军的军衔晋升加薪。
童子军在1月份告知赫格塞斯，在听取他的建议后，他们已制定了一个计划供其审查，其中包括取消“公民社会” merit badge，引入“军事服务” merit badge，豁免军人子女注册费，举行仪式重新致力于领导、对上帝忠诚、对国家忠诚和服务，并解散其DEI委员会。
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美国童子军协会成立于1910年，数十年来在美国享有盛誉，松木车赛、童子军誓言和鹰级童子军成为了美国文化的一部分。
传说美国商人威廉·博伊斯（William Boyce）在伦敦大雾中迷路时，被一个少年指引到目的地，少年拒绝了小费，称因为自己是“童子军”（童子军1907年在英国成立），做好事不能接受报酬。
从那以后，该组织面临诸多争议并经历重大变革。
1990年，该组织开除了一名发现自己是大学男女同性恋组织联合主席后成为助理童子军领袖的鹰级童子军成员。他于1992年起诉指控歧视，但美国最高法院裁定童子军有权维持排除同性恋者的成员和领导标准。
保守派团体纷纷支持童子军，但随着禁令持续，数十家机构减少了支持。禁令于2013年解除。2015年，该组织结束了对同性恋成年领导者的全面禁令，但允许教会赞助的童子军单位因宗教原因继续排斥同性恋者。
2017年，童子军宣布允许认同自己为男孩的跨性别儿童参加男子-only项目。此前，新泽西州一名8岁跨性别男孩因父母和领导发现其身份而被童子军部队开除。
童子军还面临大量性虐待指控，并于2020年申请破产保护，当时已有约275起诉讼指控其虐待，保险公司称另有1400起未决索赔。
2023年，一名法官维持了24亿美元的破产计划，允许该组织继续运营，同时向超过8万名声称在童子军期间遭受性虐待的男性支付赔偿。
去年，美国童子军协会总裁兼首席执行官罗杰·克罗恩（Roger Krone）承认更名引发了一些反弹，但称总体反应积极，吸引了更多关注。
“我们使用更中性的名称这一事实，让很多人想要了解更多，”克罗恩说。
该组织称新增了约1.6万名童子军，较上一年增长不到2%。当时该组织表示成员人数刚刚超过100万。
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Scouting America will alter its policies to maintain support from the US military, Pentagon says
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Scouting America will alter its policies to maintain support from the US military, Pentagon says
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth enters the House Chamber before President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber at the US Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, February 24, 2026.
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Scouting America will alter several policies at the urging of the Pentagon, including one targeting transgender youths, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Friday as he pushes a campaign against military support for diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
Some of the changes mirror what the organization suggested to the Defense Department in January, which included discontinuing its Citizenship in Society merit badge and introducing a Military Service merit badge as well as waiving registration fees for the children of military personnel.
Under Hegseth, the Pentagon has taken aim at the military’s partnership with Scouting America, decrying its historic rebrand in 2024 from the Boy Scouts and other changes in recent years that he sees as part of “woke culture” efforts that he wants to root out.
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Hegseth said in a video posted on X that the Pentagon will “vigorously review” the changes the organization has made in six months and will cease its support of Scouting America if it fails to comply.
“We hope that doesn’t happen, but it could,” Hegseth 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.”
Scouting America, which is based in Irving, Texas, didn’t immediately comment.
The organization began allowing gay youth in 2013, ended a blanket ban on gay adult leaders in 2015 and announced in 2017 that it would accept transgender students. It began accepting girls as Cub Scouts as of 2018 and into the flagship Boy Scout program — renamed Scouts BSA — in 2019. As of May 2024, more than 6,000 girls had earned the coveted Eagle Scout rank.
The Pentagon said in a statement earlier this month that it was reviewing its relationship with Scouting America, claiming it had “lost its way” in many ways and calling the organization’s diversity, equity and inclusion efforts “unacceptable.”
“Scouting America’s leadership has made decisions that run counter to the values of this administration,” the February 6 statement said, “including an embrace of DEl and other social justice, gender-fluid ideological stances.”
The Pentagon previously said it and Scouting America were nearing an agreement to continue their partnership if the organization “rapidly implements the common-sense, core value reforms.”
“Scouting America remains far from perfect, but they have firmly committed to a return to core principles,” the statement said. “Back to God and country—immediately!”
The US military and the Boy Scouts have had longtime ties, including the military providing logistical support for the National Boy Scout Jamboree since its inception in 1937.
The military also has a long history of sponsoring Scout troops and activities on US military bases and has maintained a strong relationship with the Eagle Scouts, whose members often enlist in the armed forces.
In a statement last year, Scouting America raised concerns following a report from NPR that the Pentagon planned to cut support for Scouting programs on military bases as well as for the National Jamboree and would eliminate increases in pay grade for Eagle Scouts who enlist.
The Scouts told Hegseth in January that after hearing his suggestions, they had come up with a plan for him to review, which included discontinuing their Citizenship in Society merit badge and introducing a Military Service merit badge, waiving registration fees for military personnel and holding a ceremony to rededicate themselves to leadership, duty to God, duty to country and service, besides dissolving their DEI board committee.
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Founded in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America achieved a vaunted status in the US over the decades, with pinewood derbies, the Scout Oath and Eagle Scouts becoming part of the lexicon.
Lore has it that American businessman William Boyce was inspired to start the organization after he became lost in the fog in London and was guided to his destination by a youth who turned down a tip, telling Boyce that because he was a scout (they were formed in Britain in 1907) he couldn’t accept money for a good deed.
Since then, the organization has faced controversies and undergone significant changes.
In 1990, the organization expelled an Eagle Scout who had become an assistant scoutmaster after discovering he was co-president of his university’s gay and lesbian organization. He sued in 1992 alleging discrimination and lost at the US Supreme Court, which ruled that the Scouts could maintain membership and leadership criteria that excluded gay people.
Conservative groups rallied around the Boy Scouts, but scores of institutions curtailed support as the ban continued. The ban ended in 2013. In 2015, the organization ended its blanket ban on gay adult leaders while allowing church-sponsored Scout units to maintain the exclusion for religious reasons.
In 2017, the Boy Scouts announced that they would allow transgender children who identify as boys to enroll in their boys-only programs. That came after an 8-year-old was asked to leave his Scout troop in New Jersey after parents and leaders found out he was transgender.
The Boy Scouts also faced a flood of sexual abuse claims and sought bankruptcy protection in 2020, when it had been named in about 275 lawsuits and had told insurers it was aware of another 1,400 claims.
In 2023, a judge upheld the $2.4 billion bankruptcy plan allowing the organization to keep operating while compensating more than 80,000 men who filed claims saying they were sexually abused while in scouting.
Last year, Scouting America’s President and CEO Roger Krone acknowledged some backlash to the rebrand but described the overall response as a positive one that generated wider interest.
“The fact that we were going with a more kind of gender-neutral name, a lot of people kind of wanted to know more about it,” Krone said.
The organization said it saw a gain in membership of about 16,000 new scouts, less than 2% from the prior year. The organization said at the time that it had just over 1 million members.
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