It’s just a simple thing,” Vaughn Ritter, 13, told the outlet. Girls were allowed to join the Boy Scouts beginning in February, according to a Feb. 1 news release by Boy Scouts of America.

Dressed in my Class A uniform, I loaded my backpack and camping gear into the trunk of my dad’s car. On the long drive to Navasota, I had mixed emotions — one of excitement that I get to be a ...