Joe Maldonado, 8, joined Cub Scout Pack 87 in Secaucus, New Jersey because, in his own words, “all of my favourite friends were there.”

Transgender - 2016

But after Joe’s mother, Kristie, enrolled her son in the troop, she was then told by the Boy Scouts of America that her son was banned from membership because of his gender identity, as the child is transgender, and was born with physical female sexual organs.

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