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Dylan Mulvaney, the transgender influencer who cost Bud Light hundreds of millions of dollars last year after teaming up with the brand in a partnership, is celebrating after registering a new female gender marker on his passport.
Mulvaney's new passport
“Starting in 2024 with a new passport and an article I wrote for @portermagazine about my pledge not to please people,” Mulvaney wrote on social media alongside a photo of the document. “This is mitigating through TSA and next year.”
Mulvaney included a link to an article by Porter in which the 26-year-old transgender influencer admitted that the anxiety surrounding people-pleasing “is more evident at the airport.”
“I show up wearing an array of athletic clothing, but I add women's accessories and earrings in the hope that I won't be offended,” Mulvaney wrote. “TSA screening is my worst enemy, and I often have to whisper in the officer's ear, 'I'm transgender.' Has the TSA officer seen my videos? Do they believe transgender people exist? Once I get through the security checkpoint, I upload My face mask and I run through the station.
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Mulvaney is afraid of airport bathrooms
“Airport bathrooms scare me more than anywhere else. I pray my mask hides the facial hairs I still have after hours of electrolysis and lasers, even though I know cis women have facial hair too. The trans influencer added: “When I get to the gate, I try to sit facing the wall so no one catches my eye. “I'm very nervous at the prospect of hateful comments, which has happened many times before. I realize this limits me on the other side – meeting great people who support me – but I don't know if it's worth taking the chance.
Mulvaney went on to say that 2023 ended on an “exciting note” with the update to the women's gender marker in the passport.
“I just changed the gender marker and photo on my passport, so the airport should now be less hassle in 2024,” Mulvaney wrote. “I hope everything will be less difficult.”
“I hope that love will overflow from hate, and most importantly, that the majority of love will come from within,” Mulvaney concluded. “Because the only person I need to please is myself.”
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Bud Light County
This comes after the Daily Mail reported that Anheuser-Busch, the parent company of Bud Light, announced that revenues in the US fell 13.5 percent between July and September in the wake of the Mulvaney partnership that came to light in April. Furthermore, sales to US retailers also fell by 17 percent during that time period, with Anheuser-Busch admitting this was largely due to lower demand for Bud Light.
As for Bud Light specifically, its sales were down 29 percent in the four weeks ending October 21 compared to the same period one year ago. This comes on the heels of conservatives launching a highly emotional boycott of Bud Light after the company teamed up with Mulvaney in an April partnership.
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