Maplewood Troop Leader Petitions to Allow Transgender Cub Scout to Join Pack

 

By Erica Davies

The leader of a Maplewood cub scout troop is petitioning the regional Cub Scouts council allow an 8-year-old boy to join the pack after he was kicked out of his Secaucus troop for being transgender.

Cub Scout Pack 20 leader Kyle Hackler told NBC New York Thursday that he disagreed with the Northern New Jersey Council of Boy Scouts' decision to give Joe Maldonado the boot from Pack 87 following complaints from parents.

It breaks my heart to see that this little boy is going through this situation," he said. "All he wants to do is be with his friends."

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Source: NBC News 4 New York