Trans girl scout stands up to bully who wouldn’t buy cookies ‘from a boy in a dress’

Last month, nine-year-old trans girl Stormi set out to sell as many girl scout cookies as she could. She had the drive, and the mission – she wanted to donate cookies to other kids in the foster care system, as Stormi is a foster child as well.

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

But, as Stormi soon found out, not all people offer smiles. As she walked door to door 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.”

But, in true Troop Beverly Hills fashion, Stormi proved her bully wrong. Stormi started selling her cookies through the Girl Scouts’s online portal, Digital Cookies, last week. She wanted people to choose the option “deliver in person.”

“I have my own plans as well. At my request my family will donate boxes to local foster kids like me!” she wrote online. “I have learned that even though people can be mean I shouldn’t give up!”

Stormi sold more than 3,000 cookies, some that went as far as Canada and Australia.

Transgender Girl Scouts have struggled to gain acceptance.

After a troop in Colorado admitted a 7-year-old transgender girl in 2011, several Girl Scout troops in Louisiana disbanded in protest and a California teen called for a boycott.

BuzzFeed reported that Stormi decided to join the scouts last year; she recently told her foster mother that she wanted to give cookies to other children in the system.

But, her foster mother said, last month’s incident involving the neighbor was jarring.

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

And she didn’t. Someone give this little girl an award for her bravery. Please.