The director of communications, Effie Delimarkos, said that the organisation is “happy to welcome Joe and the Maldonado family back into the scouting community.”
As well as the financial settlement and apology, the Northern New Jersey Council agreed to create “revised policies and procedures” for transgender youth that fall inline with anti-discrimination laws.
Maldonado’s family claimed that other children did not have a problem with Joe, and rather other parents and the actual club that opposed his gender identity.
“I was in shock, upset. The kids didn’t have a problem it was all his friends, he was having fun,” Kristie Maldonado said. “Not one of the kids said, “You don’t belong here,’”
“I don’t know, it’s just not fair,” Joe said. “It made me mad. I had a sad face, but I wasn’t crying. I’m way more angry than sad. My identity is a boy.
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