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Genevieve Wiechert created video series and Girl Scout patch program. To complete their Gold Award project, called Be a Sister to EVERY Girl Scout, Wiechert, 18, of Durham, also known as Evie, created a series of videos and a Girl Scout patch program addressing misconceptions about the LGBT community, understanding the range of gender and sexual identities, learning the terminology, and how to be an ally to everyone in that community. These videos are aimed more at adults, particularly Girl Scout troop leaders. Gold Award Girl Scouts spend more than 80 hours on their projects.

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Several of the biggest sponsors of Scout units, including the Roman Catholic, Mormon and Southern Baptist churches, were openly dismayed, raising the prospect of mass defections. Catholic Bishop Robert Guglielmone of Charleston, South Carolina, whose duties include liaising with the National Catholic Committee on Scouting, says he knows of no instances where a Catholic unit — there are more than 7, — has taken on an openly gay adult leader since the policy change. Gay sex and same-sex marriage are considered violations of church teaching.

In , the organization lifted the ban on openly gay scouts and in , ended the prohibition on gay leaders. Earlier this year, the Boy Scouts of America also said it will allow scout members that self-identify as male, creating room for transgender members. The two organizations have developed markedly different curriculums over the past century. In their earliest years, Boy Scouts teachings were imbued with a more frontiersmen ethos connected to the national narrative of moving west, while the Girl Scouts were a more urban movement teaching both domestic and outdoor skills, said Tammy Proctor, the head of the history department at Utah State University and author of the book Scouting for Girls: A Century of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. I spoke with Proctor in order to understand the historic separation between the two organizations and why they seem to be at odds over the question of co-education.