Dylan Mulvaney’s Quirky Girlhood Video Says “Hold Our Beer”

TransFemme TikTok Influencer Celebrates Another Year as a Girl

First, it was beer. Now, it’s a giddy music video homage to her Days of Girlhood. Dylan Mulvaney, the trans social media influencer, can’t seem to avoid controversy. Not one to dodge an issue, the freshly released video playfully toys with stereotypical American womanhood rites of passage. It also references the angry backlash that she and Anheuser-Busch received after they partnered during March of 2023 on a Bud Light promotion that suddenly thrust the actress into the mainstream public’s eye and left her to fend for herself while the beer industry leader prioritized reputation repair.

Mulvaney has been chronicling her progress into womanhood since she came out as trans in March 2022 on TikTok. According to Biography, the now-27-year-old self-described “theater kid” wants to elevate the stories and lived experiences of trans people so there can be greater acceptance and understanding in the mainstream.

COVID-19 provided the then-male presenting stage performer time to rethink priorities and values. Already on hormones and non-binary, Mulvaney decided to make a “full coming out video” on TikTok. Surprisingly, it earned millions of views. That is when she realized the power of TikTok to chart her metamorphosis into the woman she had known she was since she was four years old. Given the popularity of the video, she began to document the early days of transition with daily updates. The series of videos was called Days of Girlhood.

With the words, “Here goes: I am a girl,” Mulvaney started her new life in the hypercritical world of social media. Despite death threats from furiously offended beer-drinking social conservatives that have made her afraid to leave her home, she decided that the completion of year two as a woman deserved something special. An anthem about what she described on TikTok as her “desire to reclaim my relationship to femininity and celebrate trans joy.”

Shocking no one, the release of Days of Girlhood received a variety of responses, both supportive and packed with insults. It also shot to the top of the Genius.com lyrics charts, leaving Ariana Grande and Eminem in the dust, according to Newsweek, which describes Genius as a site that “spotlights the artists who are shaping music culture across every genre and musical discipline, sharing the stories behind their creativity and craft in their own words.”

During the beautifully shot and sweet as pink cotton candy 3:40 minute video available on YouTube, the blonde coiffed pop activist dances with friends by an outdoor swimming pool, wears a mini skirt, lounges on her bed in pink lingerie, does the walk of shame in a dazzling sequined and feathered club dress, and recreates a mid-century vibe that feeds the fun-loving camp elements, and the pastel and pink Barbie aesthetics.

As she sings early in Days of Girlhood, she is “calling women of all ages” because “girls like me gotta learn the basics.” Those basics are often stereotypical but still close to the bone in some ways. Gossiping with friends, dancing in the sunlight, posing by the pool, staggering home after a long night, shopping for something sheer and feminine, drinking tea and champagne with the girls, having a breakdown in a bubble bath, and waiting for her antidepressants. When she sings “Boys on the dance floor, it’s finally clear, the patriarchy’s over, you can hold our beer,” and uses a pink water rifle to shoot unlabeled beer cans off of a table it is an obvious hat tip to Kid Rock’s protest video wherein he used a semi-automatic rifle to blow up several cases of Bud Light.

Appearing along with Mulvaney are trans influencers including Veondre Mitchell, Gigi Gorgeous Getty, Our Lady J, Josie Totah, as well as cis TikTok phenomenon, Loren Gray. The commemoration of Mulvaney’s two years of publicly being a girl includes sexy women of multiple body types, sizes, and colors wearing bathing suits, filmy lingerie, and practical outdoor summer togs.

Fox News and other media venues have posted several negative artistic and social critiques about the transfemme-filled praise of influential women in Mulvaney’s life and whimsical parade of outdated clichés in the lives of most women. The vitriol in comments that intentionally misgender Mulvaney, call her mentally ill, accuse her of mocking women, refer to her as a “pretend” woman who contributes nothing of value to the world, and even insists that she is a “perverse weasel,” have inspired the trans pop sensation to do a good deed.

“Every time that you stream my song or use it on a social media app,” Mulhaney explained during what Billboard calls a lengthy vlog, “any profits that I make through Pride Month, I will be donating to The Trevor Project.” The nonprofit is dedicated to suicide prevention for LGBTQIA+ individuals aged 13 through 24.

As she sings during Days of Girlhood, “Mom brought me into the world, Sister taught me hot to girl, Best friend coached me how to text, The boy toy that I’m dating next, Girls who helped show me the way, They’re why I’m an It girl today!”