Embattled transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney said she’s “scaling back” on sharing her “trans joy” as she celebrates day 500 of being a woman — 135 days after her now-infamous tie-up with Bud Light.
“[Day] 500 is dedicated to my younger self who didn’t get to celebrate so many awesome discoveries because I was just hoping to get by,” Mulvaney said in the clip, which she shared on Wednesday while on a girls’ trip in Paris, she said.
“Today is actually day 9,705 of being a woman, because I’ve always been one,” the 26-year added, noting that she knew she was transgender at four, 10 and 15 years old.
Without overtly mentioning Bud Light, Mulvaney addressed that she “learned more since day 365 than I did that whole first year.”
That day, April 1, is when Mulvaney shared posts promoting Bud Light — one of which featured a custom can the brewer sent her to celebrate one year since publicly coming out as a woman.
“If I make the content that I want to make, and freely share my trans joy, I subject myself to a lot more trauma. So lately, I’ve chosen to scale back in order to protect my overall well-being, and it works,” Mulvaney said in the nearly eight-minute video, which she posted to Instagram and TikTok.
“I am quite happy, but I’m not doing what I love, so it’s kind of a bittersweet thing.”
Mulvaney — who began her transition from male to female in December 2022 — went on to list what she’s learned since day 365, such as when she discovered that “trust is something that should be earned” on day 387.
The lesson on day 398: “Misery loves company.”
And on day 422, Mulvaney learned that hormone injections “have worked better for me than pills.”
Feminizing hormone therapy, which is commonly used in male-to-female transitions, consists of weekly or bi-weekly injections that increase estrogen and block testosterone, according to the Mayo Clinic.
“It’s been really beautiful to watch my body change,” Mulvaney said.
“But something really ugly happened these last few months where I started to believe that if I just got really pretty and if I stayed quiet, I could still find success,” she added while getting teary-eyed, noting that she’s going to start using her voice to advocate for others again.
The Post has reached out to Mulvaney’s representatives at CAA talent agency for comment.
Mulvaney’s post has been viewed over 603,000 times since it was posted to Instagram less than 24 hours ago, plus an additional nearly 4 million times on TikTok.
It’s not the first time the transgender activist has pointedly spoken about the controversy that ensued after her Bud Light posts, which triggered a boycott that knocked the beer out of its top-selling spot for the first time in over two decades.
Most recently, Bud Light parent Anheuser-Busch said it’s planning to lay off nearly 400 corporate and marketing roles at its major US offices as Bud Light has yet to see a week since April where sales edged higher year-over-over.
Last month, Mulvaney blasted Bud Light, saying its lack of response to the boycotts has “given customers permission to be as transphobic and as hateful as they want.”
A tearful Mulvaney also revealed that she has been “ridiculed in public” and has “felt a loneliness that I wouldn’t wish on anyone.”
Shortly after, the San Diego-born social media star shared that she took a solo trip to Peru “to feel safe” again.
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