Transgender Girl Scout stands up to bully who wouldn’t buy cookies ‘from a boy in a dress’

[jpak]

Source: Washington Post

Nine-year-old Stormi set out last month to sell cookies just like every other Girl Scout — with a sales pitch and a goal.

“I like to sell cookies because it’s very nice to sell cookies,” she told BuzzFeed News. Cookies, she said, “make people smile.”

But when Stormi, who is transgender, started knocking on neighbors’ doors near her home in Herrin, Ill., one man turned her away, saying: “Nobody wants to buy cookies from a boy in a dress.”

“It made me sad,” Stormi told BuzzFeed News. “Because I’m a girl.”

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[KamaAina]

1. I'll take three boxes each of Thin Mints and Samoas, Stormi

[KansDem]

3. Are you serious!!

How could you pass up these?

[KamaAina]

10. Not familiar with those

they look yummy, though.

What the heck. Stormi, throw in three boxes of those.

[SkyDaddy7]

14. Those were my FAVORITE!!

Until I gave up all processed foods & added sugars, etc., a few years ago.

[KansDem]

15. Mine, too!

Crispy vanilla cookies layered with peanut butter and covered with a chocolaty coating.

Rarely could I pass a Girl Scouts' cookie table without picking up a box or two!

But unfortunately, I too have given up processed foods & added sugars. Gotta keep the carb count as low as possible.

[SkyDaddy7]

17. I played soccer & was very athletic...

for most of my life & never had to worry about carbs but then I suffered a spinal cord injury in 2003. After a few years my metabolism crashed & I gained so much weight because I had no way of exercising effectively. So I tried the fad diets like the "Atkins Diet" & I lost a lot of weight fast but I gained it all back & much more after a year or so. Then I was reading about how many of the NFL players & professional soccer players were going Vegan or "Vegan Lite" still eating some seafood & chicken but cutting out all processed foods, added sugars, dairy, red meats, etc., & how much better they felt after making the change. So, I decided I had to make the change & after a little over 3yrs now I have lost 95lbs from 5'9" 240lbs to 145lbs without exercising & I feel so much better! People don't believe me when I tell them but it can be done. However, I am lucky because there is not really any food I don't like so switching over was not very hard for me personally. Plus, YouTube is packed with so many video recipes.

[abelenkpe]

11. Ok but I get to buy all the Savannah Smiles :)

[Tab]

2. This is a grown-up, or just a silly classmate bully?

Because it sounds like a grown-up and shame on him

[GoneOffShore]

4. I don't buy the cookies, but I put $20 in the donation jar.

Not that I don't like the cookies.

I do..

Way too much.

I mean really way too much.

[FLPanhandle]

5. If the guy believes it's a boy pretending to be a girl, so what?

Just keep it to yourself, buy the cookies and think, "Well, he's not hurting anyone. Let him pretend."

[WestSeattle2]

6. That would be the reasonable, rational, and mature thing to do! Sadly, the Girl Scout knocked on the

door of a Republican.

[Stargleamer]

7. i hope her troop stood by her n/t

[Beacool]

8. I'm glad that she stood up to the narrow minded jerk.

Good for Stormi!!! Also kudos to her foster family for being supportive.

[47of74]

9. Fuck that guy.

More cookies for the rest of us then.

Especially thin mints.

[cab67]

12. I will do anything to support transgender youth...

...and will eat every thin mint GSC put within arm's reach. They're crack to me.

[Le Taz Hot]

13. It takes a special kind of piece of shit

adult to bully a 9-year-old.

[Zorra]

16. Only a sad, pathetic, hateful little human being would do that to a child. nt