Secretary of War Pete Hegseth won two battles in a row, taking down the ‘wokening’ of the Boy Scouts and Iran.
One of the casualties of wokeness had been the Boy Scouts which went from a conservative and patriotic organization to making DEI mandatory, welcoming in girls and then welcoming them to sleep with boys who claim to be girls.
Last November, Hegseth announced that he was cutting the military’s ties with the woke organization. Now an agreement has been hammered out with what used to be the Boy Scouts (currently Scouting America.)
Scouting America has also agreed to discontinue its “citizenship in society” merit badge, which made it mandatory for those with the rank of Life Scout to “realize the benefits of diversity, equity, inclusion and ethical leadership,” prior to being allowed to advance to the rank of Eagle Scout, according to Scouting America’s official website.
The organization also changed a policy that didn’t distinguish between male and female participants’ biological sex at birth.
“Accordingly, Scouting America membership applications will continue to only provide ‘male’ and ‘female’ as sex designations. Scouting America will enact a policy that indicates that biological boys and biological girls will not be permitted to share intimate spaces, including toilets, showers and tents,” the MOU continues, adding that similar policies will be enacted toward scout leaders, volunteers, staff and any other individuals involved with the scouts.
In addition to the first three actions regarding the rollback of DEI outlined in the memo, the document also lists a pair of changes that are meant to be conducive to the War Department and Scouting America getting back into a mutual alignment that promotes the “frontiersman ethos,” which prepped young men for the military and supported recruitment throughout the services.
I’m not assuming that everything is fine now, but it shows that you can use leverage to force rollbacks of wokeness, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is not afraid to use that power.
Daniel Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Daniel became CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center in 2025.
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