TikTok Star Dylan Mulvaney On Coming Out As Trans To A ‘Very Conservative Family’ At Age 4
10.03.2023 - 00:07
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Dylan Mulvaney is celebrating one year of transitioning by reflecting on what it was like to come out as trans at age four and shares an encouraging message to trans youth.
The 26-year-old TikTok star, who accepted the Groundbreaker Award at last month’s Queerties, recalled discovering her gender identity growing up in a “very conservative family.”
“I came out to my mom at [age] 4. I told her, ‘I’m a girl.’ We were very, very religious so she was like, ‘God doesn’t make mistakes.’ But I didn’t know that I could transition. I didn’t know that there were options or resources,” Mulvaney said on this week’s episode of the “Just for Variety” podcast.
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“The first true nonbinary person that I grew close to was E.R. Fightmaster, who plays a really beloved character on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’. We met doing a comedy improv show at UCB. I was enamored by them… Just to watch someone so confidently… I wanted that so desperately,” she continued. “I’m just really grateful that that was my first [trans] person I had met.”
Mulvaney noted that “Trans people really are some of the most important people you can have during a transition,” because “At first, I think I was coveting the approval of cis women so desperately that I lost sight of the community that really matters and that I really want to represent, which is trans people, especially trans-feminine people.”
She was also inspired by watching Laverne Cox on “Orange Is the New Black”, to which she recalled thinking “Oh my gosh, that’s an option, that’s a thing.”
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It wasn’t until the pandemic