Move Over Women, The Men Are Speaking!
For those who are unaware, this is Dylan Mulvaney. Around March Dylan came out as “trans” and started documenting his journey into girlhood on TikTok, starting each video with “Day X of being a girl…” Like many others, I thought it was satire because there’s no way this person who hikes in high heels, calls a vagina a “barbie pouch,” and wants to “normalize the bulge” is being serious, but Tampax takes him seriously enough to use him as an influencer to sell their products. Understand me clearly: Dylan is free to be whoever Dylan wants to be. If Dylan wants to call himself a unicorn muskrat snake charmer, then by all means. The beauty of TikTok is people can be whoever they want and create whatever they want, and Dylan’s journey into girlhood is a social media sitcom. I am happy to stay on my corner of TikTok and ignore Dylan altogether. My issue is, and has always been, at what point am I expected and demanded to participate, and why, as a woman, am I expected to step aside and make room?
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