LOS ANGELES—A YouTube video featuring the ruggedly handsome Buck Angel asking fans and the general population to forgo a boycott of Girl Scout cookies called for by a young girl.
The original YouTube video, which is no longer available, the girl asked people to boycott the Girl Scouts and the organization’s annual cookie sale after the group allowed a 7-year-old transgender girl to join a troop in Colorado.
Angel, a female to male transgender and former Girl Scout, recently posted his own YouTube video, and his response is gaining quite a bit of mainstream attention. News outlets such as the Los Angeles Times and Huffington Post have reported on the debate the original video sparked, as well as publishing Angel’s video.
"Support Girl Scouts. They’re amazing,” Angel said in the video. “Thin Mints being my favorite cookies, so please buy as many cookies as you can and help them to really get the message across that it's not about anything other than showing love and respect and learning how to be a good person. That’s what Girl Scouts is about. Thank you."
Angel also noted that while he was born a girl, and accepted into the Girl Scouts as a girl, that everyone knew he was a little boy, but accepted him anyway.
The Girl Scouts of Colorado recently issued a statement on the matter: “If a child identifies as a girl and the child’s family presents her as a girl, Girl Scouts of Colorado welcomes her as a Girl Scout.”
For more information on Buck Angel, visit BuckAngel.com.
For more information on where to buy Girl Scout cookies, visit GirlScoutCookies.org.
