Six girls from California want to join the local boy scouts. The six California girls call themselves "the Unicorns" and they are campaigning to join the Boy Scouts of America after the Boy Scout council in Santa Rosa, Calif., turned them down.
The Cub Scouts are only making room for seven to 10-year-old old boys, and 11 to 18-year-olds for the Boy Scouts.
Danielle Jacobs, mother of the leader of the group, said her daughter had more fun with her brother's Cub Scouts events instead of the Girl Scouts so she encouraged her 10-year-old daughter to join the local boy scouts. Jacobs believes her daughter's rejection was "inappropriate" and that she was only looking for "activities that are more robust," according to ABC News.
"Because we're girls we can't participate with boys?" 10-year-old Ella Jacobs said, according to the New York Times. "When we get into the real world, we're going to have to work with other people who are, like, not just girls."
However, their case is not backed up by law. The Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 which does not allow discrimination from sex, puts the Boy Scouts into exception allowing them to ban future members based on gender.
For more than 100 years, the Boy Scouts has been an all-male organization.
"We understand that the values and the lessons of scouting are attractive to the entire family. However, Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts are year-round programs for boys and young men," the Boy Scouts of America said in an email statement, according to the Inquisitr.
Officers at the local Boy Scout headquarters in Santa Rosa did not accept the plea of the Unicorns on Nov. 13 but will forward the application to the national headquarters.
