"Sydney Ireland started a revolution when she demanded that girls have access to the same opportunities and benefits as boys in the Scouts, and now thanks to those efforts countless young women are able to join the BSA with full rights after a century long exclusion. She is a reminder that it's time for women and girls to get the recognition and opportunities we have long fought for, and it is time that BSA leadership finally do what is right and award her Eagle Scout rank." said Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney.

We ask the Board President of the Greater New York Councils of the Boy Scouts to speak out against the discriminatory national policies of the BSA banning young women from immediate recognition for earning the same Eagle Rank boys have always earned. It is unacceptable that a group of largely male adult Boy Scout leaders institutes a discriminatory policy banning young women from immediately being recognized as Eagle Scouts while young men are immediately recognized and celebrated when they complete the work for Eagle Rank.

As Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people."
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