Dylan Mulvaney

What I will say is like,

I felt myself slipping away and I started to disassociate in the, you know, when people are talking about you and you don't know when they say your name and they're saying things, you know, Dylan Mulvaney is this, this, and this, or Monica Lewinsky is this, this, and this.

You don't know who they're talking about.

Yeah.

And it starts to like you disconnect from your body and from your identity and from your name.

And I think the other piece of this was so crazy was like,

I was still like new to like being trans.

It was only a year in.

So I didn't understand like, like people wanted to politicize me so much.

And actually during that first year, I got sent to the white house to interview the president.

And I never, I was never a person that was particularly drawn to like activism.

And so I think like,

Looking back, I did put myself in positions and accepted opportunities that weren't necessarily appropriate for me to be doing.

Well, because I was a musical theater kid that, you know, there's so many iconic trans people in this world very much deserving of the spotlight or also having put the time and care into learning more about the community.

Meanwhile, they're like, oh, we need a trans person for the White House.

Let's get the TikTok girl.

Right.

who has probably only met like two or three other trans people before going there.

And I think that like so much of that experience and after Beer Gate was sort of like getting back to purpose and like what –

My purpose really is, I think, is to spread joy and acceptance through humor and through performance.