It’s been a tough year for Dylan Mulvaney.
Twelve months since launching her hit TikTok series, Days of Girlhood, she’s earned hundreds of thousands of dollars, won allies in the White House, and is elbowing her way into the world of Hollywood celebrities.
Still, the rigors of social media stardom are taking a toll. The 26-year-old has endured painful facial surgery and been doxxed — when a fan published her personal phone number online.
Now the trans poster girl has revealed how her personal relationships have fallen apart, that she struggles to get a date — and is still to be kissed ‘as a girl’.
Mulvaney’s online transition series, which has 10.8 million followers, was always odd. But her recent imitations of a fictional six-year-old girl called Eloise, who lives in a high-end hotel, and her masquerade as a child’s doll, have taken that strangeness to a new level.
‘Let dolls be dolls, please,’ Mulvaney said in a recent clip, sporting a bright, patterned dress, braided hair, bows, and colored circles on her cheeks, before spinning for the camera. ‘Let dolls be dolls, please.’
‘Let dolls be dolls, please.’ Dylan Mulvaney’s man-to-girl transition series on TikTok was always unusual, but has grown stranger in recent postings
It’s all about the merch. Mulvaney sells pink sweaters for $54 each, in her girlhood-themed range
Mulvaney currently has 10.8 million TikTok followers — which is impressive, but still not in the platform’s top 10
The sequence makes little sense. It’s just another chance for Mulvaney to dress up and repeat a mantra of transgenderism — that people can identify as anything they want, and those who disagree are unpalatable haters.
From a business perspective, however, the series makes total sense. Mulvaney was left jobless when the Covid-19 pandemic hit and the Broadway musical she starred in, The Book of Mormon, shuttered.
Since then, Days of Girlhood has been her moneymaker.
Each time Mulvaney endorses a cosmetic,…
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