{"id":2250427,"date":"2024-05-22T14:03:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T18:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/summer-camp-for-military-families-asked-if-six-year-olds-are-transgender-non-binary\/"},"modified":"2024-05-22T14:08:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T18:08:32","slug":"summer-camp-for-military-families-asked-if-six-year-olds-are-transgender-non-binary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/summer-camp-for-military-families-asked-if-six-year-olds-are-transgender-non-binary\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer camp for military families inquires about transgender, non-binary six-year-olds"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsummer-camp-for-military-families-asked-if-six-year-olds-are-transgender-non-binary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2250427&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The\u2064 Homefront Challenge Summer Camp, exclusive to \u2063Maryland Army National Guardsmen families, asked parents about the transgender or non-binary\u2064 status\u2064 of \u200dtheir six-year-olds. The camp faced scrutiny for \u200dits approach, prompting changes to the sign-up form. This incident reflects broader concerns about gender identity practices in various youth \u200dprograms. The Homefront Challenge Summer Camp, dedicated to Maryland Army National Guardsmen families, \u200binquired about the transgender \u2063or \u2062non-binary\u2062 status of their six-year-olds. The camp&#8217;s method raised scrutiny, leading to modifications\u200d in the sign-up process. This\u200b highlights wider apprehensions regarding gender identity procedures in youth \u2062programs.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>A summer camp that exclusively serves the children of Maryland Army National Guardsmen asked parents if their six-year-old children were transgender or non-binary.<\/p>\n<p>The Homefront Challenge Summer Camp, an overnight camp that is only open to children of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/softballs-and-adoration-read-the-questions-reporters-have-asked-bidens-press-secretary\/\" title=\"Softballs And Adoration: Read The \u2018Questions\u2019 Reporters Have Asked Biden\u2019s Press Secretary\">military families<\/a> with parents serving in the Maryland Army National Guard, asked parents on a sign-up sheet to denote the gender of their children and offered the options of transgender and non-binary, raising the question regarding how the camp would be run, including whether it will house male and female campers within the same cabins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited to announce that the Maryland Army National Guard Child and Youth Program (MDARNG CYP) will be holding its annual residential Youth Summer Camp \u2026 for military youth ages 6-12 years old,\u201d a signup form for the summer camp obtained by The Daily Wire reads. The signup form goes on to ask the age of the children being signed up for the camp, as well as their gender identity.<\/p>\n<p>One section of the form, subtitled \u201cChild\u2019s Gender,\u201d allowed parents to denote that their children identify as \u201ctrans male,\u201d \u201ctrans female,\u201d or \u201cnon-binary\u201d instead of just male or female.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><\/div>\n<p>A corresponding sign-up form for the 13 to 18-year-old cohort also asked parents to designate the gender of their child and once again gave the options of \u201ctrans male,\u201d \u201ctrans female,\u201d and \u201cnon-binary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hours after The Daily Wire reached out to the camp, the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/126Unn5HOhTVWSAMkfAF7td6QF46mpnF1s0ndjPVOn9Q\/viewform?edit_requested=true\">sheet was modified<\/a> and now asks parents to fill in the blank, leaving the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-massachusetts-voters-say-immigration-is-the-top-issue-facing-the-state\/\" title=\"Survey: Immigration Ranked as the Primary Concern Among Massachusetts Voters\">question open-ended<\/a> rather than providing the transgender and non-binary options. The Daily Wire saved a version of the original form. The camp did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The camp is available only to dependents of the Maryland Army National Guard, and runs for a week late next month.<\/p>\n<p>Gender identity ideology has led to similar issues at other summer camps, with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/colorado-summer-camp-will-house-trans-adults-in-kids-cabins-without-telling-parents-if-they-ask\">investigation<\/a> from The Daily Wire revealing that one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illinois-gov-signs-bill-preventing-book-bans-while-standing-in-front-of-sexually-explicit-books\/\" title=\"Illinois governor signs bill to prevent book bans while surrounded by sexually explicit books.\">overnight summer camp<\/a> in Colorado\u00a0decided to house adults in the same cabin as children by their gender identity, meaning that adult male camp counselors who identify as women could be placed in the same cabin as young girls.<\/p>\n<p>The camp\u2019s decision to allow young children to identify as transgender or nonbinary marks one more way in which the military has embraced leftwing gender ideology.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force Academy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/air-force-academy-highlights-transgender-officer-at-leadership-summit\">recently hosted<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/several-chicago-gay-bars-now-boycotting-bud-light-following-dylan-mulvaney-fiasco\/\" title=\"Chicago gay bars boycott Bud Light after Dylan Mulvaney incident.\">transgender-identifying activist<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">military service member<\/a> who works to embed leftwing gender ideology into the armed services as a featured speaker at a conference on leadership and inclusion. The Air Force Academy even told The Daily Wire that \u201cintentional misgendering\u201d may constitute discrimination, potentially resulting in punishment for cadets who use biologically accurate pronouns when referring to those who identify as transgender.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">WATCH\ud83c\udfa5: The U.S. Air Force Academy hosted a transgender Pentagon official for a symposium on inclusion. Our military is focused on transgender dogma while wars rage on two continents.<\/p>\n<p>Here he is at a pride celebration calling for \u201cintentional inclusivity\u201d in the military \ud83e\uddf5 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6BAbEwrS4j\">pic.twitter.com\/6BAbEwrS4j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Spencer Lindquist \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@SpencerLndqst) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpencerLndqst\/status\/1763327970893254985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 29, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Pentagon has worked to institutionalize leftwing gender ideology and the broader diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda, even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bidens-pentagon-slated-to-spend-nearly-270-million-on-diversity-agenda\">requesting $114 million in taxpayer funding<\/a> to support \u201cunconscious bias diversity training\u201d and \u201ctraining programs and diversity and inclusion initiatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump has pledged to purge wokeness and the DEI agenda from the federal government by taking action to fire bureaucrats who leveraged their positions to push far-left ideology throughout the administrative state. Trump\u2019s allies at the Heritage Foundation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.project2025.org\/\">Project 2025<\/a> are assembling a personnel database to take the place of outgoing bureaucrats who\u2019ve pushed a far-Left agenda.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Homefront Challenge Summer Camp, catering to Maryland Army National Guardsmen families, queried parents about their six-year-olds&#8217; transgender or non-binary identity on a signup form<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":503,"featured_media":2250428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/Untitled-design-109-e1716318160723.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2250427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/Untitled-design-109-e1716318160723.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2250428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}