Gender Inclusive Camps
Here at BYM Camps, we work hard to create a vibrant, diverse, and youth-centered community that welcomes everyone with open arms. We seek to create an environment where campers can both find themselves and be themselves. We believe our camps are strengthened by genuine diversity of all kinds, and we commit to creating camps where people of any race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or economic status actively want to attend or work, where anyone and everyone feels at home.
Catoctin, Opequon, Shiloh, and Teen Adventure are gender inclusive summer camps and communities that are not divided by an individual’s sex assigned at birth. Rather, we support each community member to be in housing and social groupings that most align with their gender identity. BYM Camps includes non-binary and transgender staff and youth, and we work to model inclusivity in many ways, including by inviting all community members, as they feel comfortable, to share their gender pronouns. BYM Camps is a community where campers and staff use the full spectrum of gender pronouns and identify with the full non-binary spectrum of gender.