Dylan Mulvaney

Oh, really?

I think the farther away from the beach you get, the more homophobic they get.

But I really was in this little kind of country town, and I begged my parents to put me in dance lessons, and they did.

I was the only boy in a school of like 200 girls dancing, and it was like my safe place.

And I grew up very Catholic, so I went to Catholic school for most of my life.

And it was also kind of tricky because I think –

As I got older, I did, like, How the Grinch Known Christmas at the Old Globe, which is this really fun musical.

And I met all of these, you know, adult gay actors who had partners and were living their lives and were really great role models to me.

But then I would be told, you know, in church or...

We ended up, my mom, I was going to say transition from Catholic to Christian, which in some ways she did.

But I would be at these mega churches with her where the pastor would be like, we cannot let the gays get married ever.

And that was so conflicting because I was like, wait, now I actually know gay people and they're amazing.

And I'd come out to my mom as a girl when I was four years old.

And so that was something that I had tucked away.

And so I was in kind of a constant back and forth in regards to like holding my faith, but also discovering myself and my identity.

Right.

And was that – when you say come out to your mom, was that that you knew you were not in the right body or was that – I did say something specifically like I think God made a mistake and put a girl into a boy's body.

And so it did feel very specific to like my physical self.

But it definitely stemmed from just –

I obviously had no idea that trans people existed when I was four.