Boy Scouts of America changing name to more inclusive Scouting America after years of woes

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Boy Scouts of America changing name to more inclusive Scouting America after years of woes
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The Boy Scouts of America will soon be known as Scouting America as the group is changing its name for the first time in its 114-year history.

is changing its name for the first time in its 114-year history and will become Scouting America. It's a significant shift as the organization

The organization began allowing gay youth in 2013 and ended a blanket ban on gay adult leaders in 2015. In 2017, it made the historic announcement that girls would be accepted as Cub Scouts as of 2018 and into the flagship Boy Scout program — renamed Scouts BSA — in 2019.There were nearly 1,000 young women in the inaugural class of female Eagle Scouts in 2021, including Selby Chipman.

Like other organizations, the scouts lost members during the pandemic, when participation was difficult. After a highpoint over the last decade of over 2 million members in 2018, the organization currently services just over 1 million youths, including more than 176,000 girls and young women. Membership peaked in 1972 at almost 5 million.

The Boy Scouts’ $2.4 billion bankruptcy reorganization plan took effect last year, allowing the organization to keep operating while compensating the more than 80,000 men who say they were sexually abused as children while scouting.

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