Dylan Mulvaney

And why don't, like, even in the dance moves, like, extend my arm all the way instead of, you know, kind of keeping it hovering.

I will say the worst part of kind of what I went through was the shrinking and the – because I'm not someone who, you know, even in my –

I guess in some ways in my prior gender, I was trying to fly under the radar or trying to conform a bit.

But in my womanhood, once I found that, it was such a burst of pride and of boldness and of new things.

So when it was greeted with such hostility, I think I...

I just – I did.

I wanted to curl up into a ball and never come out of the blankets.

Yeah.

Sure.

It was 2021.

And I moved to L.A., got an apartment, and started doing stand-up comedy, like, around town in people's backyards because theater wasn't open yet.

Okay.

And I started posting, you know, while I was in Book of Mormon, TikTok started to pop up and I didn't really know much about it.

And then it became like, God, I was on the app, like scrolling like eight hours a day during the pandemic.

Did you scroll on TikTok?

I basically started posting just like, I think I posted a stupid little video of me holding a koala bear in Australia or something.

And it got 8 million views in like a day.

And I was like, holy crap.

I didn't know that that could exist or that that many people even would care about something that I was doing.

And so then I, you know, moved to L.A., started taking those hormones.