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posted ago by lsdQ ago by lsdQ +72 / -0

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireStory/boy-scouts-girl-scouts-suffer-huge-declines-membership-78578702

Brief history of the decline:

2013: Boy Scouts ends ban on gay scouts

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/24/us/boy-scouts-to-admit-openly-gay-youths-as-members.html

Membership 3.03 million

https://filestore.scouting.org/filestore/annualreport/2013/324-168_WB.pdf

2015: lets in gay leaders

https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/27/us/boy-scouts-gay-leaders-feat/index.html

Membership at 2.74 million

https://filestore.scouting.org/filestore/annualreport/2015/2015_Annual_Report.pdf

2016: libs report Boy Scouts doing great after ending gay ban

https://apnews.com/article/3de59dad2ba74b8f98bd3bc9b93c9bfc

Membership at 2.714 million

https://scoutingwire.org/annual-report-2016/

2017: announces will let in girls, will allow them to obtain Eagle badge

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/boy-scouts-will-admit-girls-allow-them-earn-eagle-scout-n809836

Membership at 2.659 million

https://scoutingwire.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2017-Annual-Report-Combined-FINAL-App-Version.pdf

2018: changes name to scouts BSA because it now lets in girls. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/02/607678097/boy-scouts-changing-name-to-scouts-bsa-as-girls-welcomed-into-program

Membership at 2.499

https://ar2018.scouting.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/BSA-2018-AnnualReport_1.pdf

2019: girls officially start being accepted as Boy Scouts

Membership at 1.97 million

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/boy-scout-cub-scout-membership-drops-43-2019-2020-1605652%3Famp%3D1

2020: membership at 1.12 million

"The Boy Scouts of America said this week that the organization would create a “diversity and inclusion” merit badge and make earning it a requirement of becoming an Eagle Scout, the highest scouting rank." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/us/boy-scouts-diversity-inclusion-eagle.html

2021: membership at 762,000

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/boy-scout-cub-scout-membership-drops-43-2019-2020-1605652%3Famp%3D1