Dylan Mulvaney, a transgender TikTok content creator who garnered millions of followers for sharing her male-to-female transition, recently spoke with President Biden at a youth summit that aired on Sunday. Her appearance generated media attention and caused a months-old video about “normalizing bulges for women” to resurface.
In the video filmed earlier this year, Mulvaney explained that she got unusual stares from people in public when she wore tight clothing.
“And I went, ‘Oh, I forgot that my crotch doesn’t look like other women’s crotches sometimes because mine doesn’t look like a little Barbie pocket,'” Mulvaney said.
Mulvaney then explains that she could either wear looser clothes, do a “tuck” (which she describes as painful), or she can “normalize women having bulges sometimes.”
Jenner, who transitioned from male to female in 2015, retweeted the video from Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn.
“@MarshaBlackburn thank you for speaking out and having a backbone – one of the best senators we have,” Jenner wrote. “Let’s not ‘normalize’ any of what this person is doing. This is absurdity!”
Mulvaney joined Biden at the White House last week to ask him about trans-related healthcare.
“Many states have lawmakers that feel like they can involve themselves in this very personal process,” Mulvaney told Biden. “Do you think states should have a right to ban gender-affirming healthcare?”
“I don’t think any state or anybody should have the right to do that, as a moral question and as a legal question. I just think it’s wrong,” Biden responded. Mulvaney also asked Biden how Democrats can advocate for trans people more effectively.
“Being seen with people like you,” Biden said. “I mean it. I genuinely mean it. People fear what they don’t know.”Prominent de-transitioner Chloe Cole has added her voice to the criticism of trans TikToker Dylan Mulvaney's White House debut, saying it was 'disturbing' and decrying social media's impact on confused teens.
Cole, 18, who campaigns against fast-tracking minors onto puberty blockers after her own bad experiences with the drugs, said Mulvaney's elevated platform in Washington DC sent a worrying message to teens.
Mulvaney, 25, who showcases her own transition into 'girlhood' to 8.4 million TikTok followers, was part of a panel of progressive campaigners who recently interviewed President Joe Biden, a Democrat.
Mulvaney's fans have voiced support for her White House video, which has been viewed 9.7 million times, but critics including Cole, Caitlyn Jenner and many others eschew her showy gender change and Biden for boosting her profile.
'It's a little insulting that he calls himself a girl and not a woman,' Cole said in an interview with Turning Point USA's Frontlines.
Caitlyn wrote: "The lgbt community is NOT a community - it is a demographic. I love so many in it - but being an outspoken common sense conservative in it is dangerous. The left has reached new levels of violence and intolerance. So sad to see.
"I have never received more death threats, death threats to my team, nasty hate mail than this week. It is all from the so called ‘inclusive’ lgbt community. I am so disgusted by the hateful individuals threatening my life for giving my opinions on news topics of the day.
"Since when is a different opinion grounds for such hatred and death wishes? Do better!"
'He's trying to emulate the look and personality of a teenage girl, which is an experience he'll never know, because he's biologically male. He will never understand what it means to grow up as a woman. It's very disturbing.'
The Biden administration should have given the limelight to a 'real trans kid' rather than Mulvaney, Cole said.
Cole, who transitioned to male at 13 before regretting the move at 16 and seeking a reversal, also warned of social media's big-name influencers impacting vulnerable youths who may themselves be questioning their identity.
'Social media was one of the — if not the — biggest catalyst in me transitioning,' said Cole, who recently founded the Detrans United campaign and support group.
'If I wasn't exposed to the content that I was exposed to so young, then it just wouldn't have happened.'
Cole describes feeling like an unattractive 'tomboy' with negative feelings about femininity. She gravitated towards trans social media users and was soon being 'force-fed that kind of content by the algorithm on Instagram,' she added.
'I was 11 or 12, starting to wonder about who I really was,' she said.
'All these pieces clicked together … I had this idea that 'maybe I'm not actually a girl, maybe I'm a boy'. It made sense to me at the time.'
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