Dylan Mulbany Although she exploded into the scene as a Tiktok star, it was controversy that made her the most famous. Trans influencers and performers are Budlight campaign for 2023.
In her new memoir, Paper Doll: Notes from A Late Bloomer, Mulvaney shares a journal entry documenting the first year of gender transition.
“I think this book is like a quarterly life crisis, but at the end of the day I think there’s a lot more heart than social media can ever have,” Mulbany said.
Her ticoku series “Days of Girlhood” has become a viral sensation, attracting over a billion views. As her profile grew, the 28-year-old became a regular on the red carpet.
Mulvaney said he has known gender identity since he was a young child.
“I knew I was a girl. It was one of the purest ideas and intentions I’d ever had, brought into this world and obviously knowing who I was and otherwise very contradictory.”
She first came out as a gay at the age of 14, but it took another decade to embrace her identity as a trans woman.
“That was all I saw around me, so I settled on my identity as a gay person,” she explained.
In 2023, Mulvaney joined celebrities in partnership with Bud Light for a social media campaign. Her content was chosen by conservatives, and she had widespread backlash. boycott. Budlight’s parent company, Anheuser-Buschsaw revenue fall by more than 10% after the campaign was released.
“I didn’t feel guilty about the experience because I felt it was my fault, and that I was in this one brand deal, which was affecting trans people worldwide,” Mulvaney said. “I think extremists and transphobic media need children on posters, but they never did anything or made a deal that they thought could have a negative impact on me or the community.”
The experience has affected her mental health, she said.
“It has led to a lot of suicidal ideation and dissociation,” Mulbany said. “I’m still fighting that guilt and some of that shame, and that discomfort projected onto me in the meantime.”
Her new book filed a lawsuit last month in a new debate on US trans rights, when a group of transgender people filed a lawsuit challenging President Trump’s executive order that stopped changing gender markers on passports.
For Mulvaney, the executive order does not change how she feels.
“I’m a woman no matter what my passport says. We’re not hurting anyone,” she said. “We are less than 1% of the population, and the way they talk about us frequently is as if they are taking over a city like Godzilla.”
“I now realize that this is life and death for a lot of people,” she added. “I want all trans people in this country to have an opportunity to flourish, and unfortunately we live in a time when it’s very difficult to do so.”
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