Dylan Mulvaney Releases Song About 'Learning Basics' of Being a Girl

Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney on Wednesday released a new music video to the song "Days of Girlhood," almost one year after becoming the target of conservative outrage over her brief partnership with Bud Light.

In a slickly produced 3:40 video released to YouTube, Mulvaney sings that she is "calling women of all ages" before announcing "girls like me gotta learn the basics."

The Context

Mulvaney became the target of an ongoing anti-transgender conservative culture war crusade after promoting Bud Light in a single Instagram post in April. A major boycott campaign against the brand was launched as a result.

The influencer said that she has also been subjected to long-running harassment. In January, Mulvaney urged fans to fight back against trolls after another brand she worked with was targeted.

Mulvaney rose to online fame after sharing daily "Days of Girlhood" posts on TikTok during the first year of her gender transition in 2022. The new music video takes its name from the same series.

What We Know

The video shows Mulvaney entering a mansion where she encounters a host of media personalities and influencers, including some other transgender women like Our Lady J, Josie Totah and Veondre Mitchell.

Mulvaney is shown singing and sometimes dancing alongside the cast in various locations inside the property and outside, culminating in a choreographed performance at a swimming pool.

"Ring the alarms, immediately we've got a code pink emergency," Mulvaney sings. "Calling women of all ages. Girls like me gotta learn the basics."

The song goes on to describe what Mulvaney calls "hot girl s***," including "retail therapy," having a "walk of shame" and eventually a "breakdown in the bath."

At one point, she appears to reference the Bud Light fiasco, singing: "Boys on the dance floor, it's time to clear. The patriarchy's over, you can hold our beer."

Views

Reactions from conservatives were, perhaps predictably, not positive. Some still shared Mulvaney's video on social media, despite expressing "rage" over the content.

"Dylan Mulvaney just released a music video on how to ... you guessed it ... be a girl," Jaimee Michell, founder of anti-transgender activist group Gays Against Groomers, wrote in a post to X, formerly Twitter. "The level of rage this makes me feel is off the Richter. I had to suffer and see it, so now you do too."

Mulvaney said in a video shared to Instagram that the "theme of the last year was pain" and announced that all proceeds from the video would be going to The Trevor Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to suicide prevention for LGBTQ+ youth.

"Every time that you stream my song or use it on a social media app, any profits that I make through Pride Month, I will be donating to The Trevor Project," she said.

Pop star Lady Gaga recently came to Mulvaney's defense and spoke out against anti-transgender sentiments after she was hit with angry remarks due to sharing a picture of herself and the influencer together on International Women's Day.

"I feel very protective in this moment, not only of Dylan, but of the trans community who continues to lead the way with their endless grace and inspiration in the face of constant degradation, intolerance, and physical, verbal, and mental violence," Gaga wrote on Instagram.

Newsweek reached out for comment to Mulvaney's representative via email on Wednesday.

What's Next?

Mulvaney said in her Instagram video that although being targeted with harassment over the Bud Light sponsorship had been "painful," she was optimistic for the future and had been able to "own" the pain.

"I grew a thousand times stronger, and the most beautiful part has been releasing from the pain and returning to innocence over and over again," Mulvaney said.

Mulvaney went on to say that she realized she was "a little cringe" but was "kind of owning that." She also hinted that she hoped to perform on Broadway in the future and had recently auditioned for multiple shows.

Conservative rage toward Mulvaney, however, seems unlikely to die down soon, with the influencer's music video seemingly triggering her critics even further.