Trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney breaks silence
After a week of controversy, trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney has fired back at critics — by breaking out in song. “It’s hard to see the light right now. This song felt fitting given the week I’ve had,” Mulvaney wrote Friday night on TikTok alongside a video of herself singing the Stephen Sondheim tune “No One is Alone” from “Into the Woods.”
The performance was from an event she hosted at the Rainbow Room an event she hosted at the Rainbow Room earlier this month.
“Thank you all for making me feel supported, i am not alone️️#trans,” she captioned the post.
Dressed Audrey Hepburn-style in a black and pink ball gown, she spoke to the audience almost tearfully.
“Whether you’re a parent or you’re a child or you’re young or you’re old or you’re trans or you’re not, we are all just trying our best here aren’t we,” she said in the clip before singing.
Last week, Mulvaney’s new ad campaigns with Bud Light and Nike ruffled the feathers of critics from country star Travis Tritt and Kid Rock — who tweeted a video of himself shooting cases of Bud Light — to female Olympians and even Caitlyn Jenner, who said of Mulvaney’s Nike sports bra endorsement: “It is a shame to see such an iconic American company go so woke! ... This is an outrage.”
On Saturday, tennis legend Martina Navratilova tweeted about the controversy and then got into a heated back and forth with Mulvaney supporters.
“I guess Nike couldn’t find a female athlete to sell sports bras ...” Navratilova wrote with a shrugging emoji.
“It’s a bra… who cares who wears it. I don’t care what anyone else wears, nor should you,” one Twitter user shot back. “With so much else going on in this world, a bloody bra shouldn’t matter.”
“Who wears it is one thing. Getting paid for it at the exclusion of females who actually need one is another…” Navratilova responded.
Another poster asked why anyone had to even wear a bra, but the tennis star had an answer at the ready.
“Because actual female athletes need one to stop bouncing around which actually hurts. Pretty simple, really. I hate wearing a bra but always have to wear one for sports…”
Then another poster scolded Navratilova, a pioneering gay activist, by telling her, “It’s called inclusion, Martina. I am stunned at you.”
“Sure. Next Dylan will be promoting tampons…” and unfazed Navratilova answered.
Mulvaney 26, who transitioned from male to female in March 2021, has reportedly earned more than a million dollars from endorsements including fashion and beauty brands Kate Spade, Ulta Beauty, Haus Labs and CeraVe, as well as Crest and InstaCart.
She’s also gained 10 million followers on TikTok.
In March, she appeared on “The Drew Barrymore Show,” where the star famously knelt before Mulvaney and embraced her, and Mulvaney met with President Biden at the White House last fall.
The Post reported Friday that executives at companies like Nike, Anheuser-Busch and Kate Spade who gave Mulvaney brand endorsements aren’t just virtue signaling.
They’re handing out lucrative deals to what were once considered fringe celebrities because they have to — or risk failing an all-important social credit score that could make or break their businesses.
At stake is their Corporate Equality Index — or CEI — score, which is overseen by the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ+ political lobbying group in the world.
HRC, which has received millions from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation among others, issues report cards for America’s biggest corporations via the CEI: awarding or subtracting points for how well companies adhere to what HRC calls its “rating criteria.”
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