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[quote=Anonymous]Men are required to be in a segregated area.  Chaperones are required to be background checked.  These are council wide rules and might be required as part of the gSUSA charter.  I never heard any guy complaining.  When we do council wide encampment there is always a big group of guys in the guy area.  And I know several troop leaders who are guys, and they still sleep separately (it’s a little bit of a pain for them because they need to have enough female volunteers to meet the overnight safety ratios for the girls area).

I will note that “family camping” is not the norm in GS.  More typical is that you have girls sharing tents with sufficient adult chaperons to at least meet safety ratios. So normally you wouldn’t have both parents attending and if a dad wasn’t comfortable going that would be totally fine.  If you have younger gilrls (k-2) I can see doing something like family camping or having each girl sleep in a tent with a parent to get them used to it.   The only time we did ifamily camping was during Covid when girls couldn’t share tents.  One girl’s dad came instead of the mom and I just put them in a different camp site that was right next to the main one.  They were with us right up until bedtime. [/quote]

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