Time to crack open some celebratory Bud Lights!
Controversial transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney has been honored by UK gay magazine “Attitude” as its very first “Woman of the Year.”
The 26-year-old self-styled “trans beer girl” — after the uproar sparked by her paid partnership with Bud Light — appears in a feathery white shoulderless gown and braided hair crown on the pink cover of the magazine’s awards issue.
The TikToker also took to the stage Wednesday to accept her award at the mag’s ceremony, wearing two outfits on the night, including a wispy bejeweled ball grown and a near-see-through black dress.
“Some see me as woman of the year — some see me as a woman of a year and some change,” she quipped, noting that she “only publicly come out online 560 days ago.”
“And some people don’t see me as a woman at all,” she said of her haters.
“No matter how hard I try, or what I wear, or what I say, or what surgeries I get, I will never reach an acceptable version of womanhood by those hateful people’s standards,” she said.
“But as long as the queer community sees me for my truth, I’m going to be OK.”
The content creator also briefly mentioned her explosive Bud Light campaign, which sparked a huge boycott of the beer company that lost tens of millions in the fallout.
Mulvaney said London became her “safe space” while traveling to avoid the scandal back home, saying that she “didn’t feel that baggage that she was carrying back in the US.”
“I didn’t feel like the trans beer girl,” said the TikToker, who became popular due to her Days of Girlhood series.
“I didn’t walk into rooms and wonder: ‘Oh, does that person hate me?’ I was just another gal walking around in a Burberry trench coat on her way to a West End musical.”
Mulvaney said that the previous year “feels like a “Black Mirror” episode, referring to the surreal Netflix show — something shared by critics aghast at the new honor.
“Unbelievable. Dylan Mulvaney wins ‘WOMAN OF THE YEAR AWARD,’” right-wing commenter Candance Owens’ podcast account said while sharing a clip of Mulvaney’s acceptance speech, which others called it “surreal.”
“This is not satire,” some critics said, as others asked: “How does this make real women feel?”
Independent Women’s Forum spokesperson Paula Scanlan joked: “I would like to nominate myself for man of the year.”
