AFN reported previously about the ousting of Alexandra Bougher, a New Jersey mother of three and a chair of her county's chapter of Moms for Liberty. She appeared on Washington Watch on AFR with guest host Casey Harper.
Bougher described her seven years serving as a Girl Scouts troop leader.
"We just love to raise strong young ladies. Unfortunately, the troop in northern New Jersey—well the, I should say the unit over northern New Jersey, some of the troops had other things in mind and were pushing a lot of woke indoctrination on our young ladies. We just weren't going to stand for it," Bougher says.
She explained the town service unit leader decided to hold all of the meetings at a particular church that was hosting a 13-year-old who was a boy identifying as a girl. The purpose was to bring ice cream and pizza and encourage the girls to talk about their feelings as a young person and their gender.
"And there were pride flags and progressive pride flags, and we had asked them to please remove the flags, that these things were inappropriate, and it was too important for them to keep all of that than to make our girls feel safe," Bougher reports.
Bougher said she put out two social media posts. The first called out the church and the Girl Scouts, asking how come adults weren't doing something as a community to make their girls feel safe. For the most part, the post went viral.
"Anyone with common sense was saying remove the flags or have the events someplace else. But we got some hate, of course, because the second they find out you're with Moms for Liberty, that's just what they do,” Bougher says. “They just sling hateful comments your way, and they don't focus on what the actual problem was, but rather, they want to put the attention on you."
She explained that some time later in June, their service manager put another post up in celebration of 'pride month'.
"That all the Park Ridge troops would be taking these different classes or these badges, and the parents were, obviously, very concerned. I was getting phone calls, ‘hey, we're not going to be doing this, right?’ And one parent, her husband said, 'We're pulling our daughter out of this organization. This is not why we signed her up'," Bougher says.
Then she shared her second post, saying her troop would not be doing this at all. She wrote about how it is not their place to talk about anything sexual with the children.
Bougher said the Girl Scouts later called and told her she would no longer be leading her troop.
“They actually refused to tell me which post went against Girl Scout conduct, but I have to make the assumption it was one of those two," states Bougher.
She said she has had numerous people support her in this.
"There's maybe 50 people that are angry because we won't sexualize and groom children. And there has to be thousands – not even exaggerating – of support messages: how can we help? I pulled my kid out. What else can I do?” Bougher explains. “This is not what Girl Scouts stands for. Girl Scouts is community, God, and country, and that is what it's supposed to stand for."
Critics also pointed out Girl Scouts has also started putting an asterisk beside the word 'God'.
For now, Bougher says people are figuring out what to do next.
“Let's start our own group and let's keep the girls safe and help them become these strong young ladies without these outside influences that they [Girl Scouts] obviously are showing means so much more to them than the safety of our girls," Bougher says.
Bougher said that as an adult it is their job to keep every child they are around safe, not just their own.
