Transgender Girl Scout stands up to bully who wouldn’t buy cookies ‘from a boy in a dress’
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.” So, she said, she found a way to shut down her bully and sell more than 3,000 boxes of cookies. Meet Stormi, a 9-year-old Girl Scout living in Herrin, Illinois. She loves hiking, camping, and playing tag with her new friends in the Girl Scouts. https://t.co/CuY1kHTYlh I n addition to raising funds for the Girl Scouts, Stormi wanted to donate cookies to local foster children — because she is one. She went into Illinois’s foster care system about three years ago, her foster mo