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By: Sam Wilmeth  Selby Chipman was one of the first female Eagle Scouts following a policy change allowing girls to join in 2019. On February 26, the United States Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, began a new campaign: a battle against Scouting America’s DEI efforts.
His policy restricts the youth leadership organization’s attempts to promote inclusivity, with his post to social media including demands that they discontinue a merit badge focused on ethical decision-making and interpersonal thinking and restrict membership with biological sex requirements on applications. All of these changes come under the threat of the organization being cut off by the Department of War, which provides a large amount of facilities and resources for Scouting America’s events. Hegseth’s coercive video announcement’s goal was made explicitly clear by the secretary himself: “The Boy Scouts should go back to being the Boy Scouts as originally founded: a group that develops boys into men.” In reality, though, his plan changes Scouting into a misrepresented version of the organization’s original values.
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