Dylan Mulvaney Turned Her Bud Light Culture War Into a Musical. And It’s Spectacular.
The terminally online might feel like they’re experts on the comings and goings of 27-year-old trans actress Dylan Mulvaney—particularly her 9.5 million TikTok followers and 1.6 million Instagram followers. For many millions more, Mulvaney represents an enigmatic lightning rod for socio-political debates about trans rights, thanks to her highly visible daily documentation of her first year living as a woman.
Seven months into her “Days of Girlhood,” Mulvaney received a White House invitation to meet with President Joe Biden in a forum with NowThisNews. That didn’t cause nearly as much uproar as what happened on April 1, 2023, when Mulvaney posted a sponsored video promoting Bud Light’s March Madness campaign and thanked the beer giant for sending her a can with her likeness on it as a gift celebrating her first anniversary as a woman. Far-right conservatives called for a Bud Light boycott, led by Kid Rock posting his own video shooting up beer cans.
Now, 16 months later, what do we really know about Mulvaney?