Transgender Girl Scout Sells Thousands of Cookies After Being Bullied

Seventeen ^ | 2-2-2016 | KATE STOREY

[Citizen Zed]

When 9-year-old Stormi was bullied by a neighbor, she didn't let that slow her down from selling thousands of boxes of Girl Scout cookies

Her mom, Kim (the family didn't give their last name because of privacy concerns) told BuzzFeed News that a man just a few blocks from their home in Herrin, Illinois, told Stormi, who is transgender: "Nobody wants to buy cookies from a boy in a dress."

"It made me sad," Stormi told the outlet. "Because I'm a girl." Her mom said Stormi immediately went home and cried.

"She was like, 'Why am I not good enough?'" Kim told the site. "We just started talking, and she decided she wasn't going to let him win."

So, they started selling the cookies on the Girl Scouts "Digital Cookie" website, where she's been receiving cookie orders from as far as Canada and Australia, her mom told the site. Stormi has been getting dozens of letters of support and has sold more than 3,000 boxes of cookies so far. She plans to donate some boxes to foster children, as well.

[Daffynition]

I do this when accosted at my supermarket. Give them cash. Don’t want any cookies. Put the money to good use kiddos. Often, they are speechless.

I learned my lesson when the boys were in Cub Scouts....maybe ages 6,8,10. They came home all excited with their Tom Watt kits and proceeded to empty them all over the living room floor.

Inside of 60 seconds, all the junk was mixed up and it took two hours to sort the junk back to individual kits. From that day forward, I sent the kids with large checks to the troop, with a note, explaining why.

Since that time, unfortunately, both the GS and BSA have morally fallen off the rails. Makes me sad.

[terycarl]

Man, the evil look on that little girl’s face is freaking me out!

That was, of course, professionally posed for a movie.....but you're right, it is ominous!!!!

[terycarl]

My neighbor told me years ago when her daughter was selling cookies that the local troop only got less than 50 cents for every box they sold..they were over $2 then... she said she tells people if they want to help the Girl Scouts to just give the $2 in money as the local group was able to use any cash donations ...m

Of course cash donations are better, the cookies just make them more palatable.

[Citizen Zed]

I guess Girl Scouts who are real Girls should be called Cis Girl Scouts. All other Girl Scouts can co-opt the name Girl Scouts. /s