Dylan Mulvaney says woman-of-the-year award 'means so much more' after Bud Light backlash

Source: The Guardian

Dylan Mulvaney says woman-of-the-year award ‘means so much more’ after Bud Light backlash

Attitude magazine celebrates TikTok star who collaborated with beer maker who left her high and dry after conservatives boycotted

Ramon Antonio Vargas
Fri 13 Oct 2023 23.23 BST

After gaining Attitude magazine’s first-ever woman of the year award, US trans activist Dylan Mulvaney said receiving such recognition from the UK-based LGBTQ+ publication “means so much more” after a substantial transphobic backlash undermined her Bud Light advertisement.

“No matter how hard I try or what I wear, or what I say, or what surgeries I get, I will never reach an acceptable version of womanhood by those hateful people’s standards,” Mulvaney said in social media videos that showed her accepting the award this week. “But as long as I have the queer community that sees me for my truth – I’m gonna be OK.”

Mulvaney attracted a following on the social media platform TikTok, by documenting her journey as a trans woman, her reflections on coming out, building a new wardrobe and undertaking gender-affirming care.

Her 365 Days of Girlhood videos resulted in two collaborations with Bud Light. The first went unnoticed. The second – a 60-second social media video on 1 April tagged #BudLightPartner that showed her sipping a beer in a bubble bath – sparked a wave of ire from political conservatives in the US.

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Original Guardian link (registration required): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/13/us-tiktok-trans-activist-woman-of-the-year-award-bud-light-boycott