Western Standard - Dylan Mulvaney honored with ‘WOMAN OF THE YEAR AWARD ’

00:00:00.000 I am so honored to be here with you all tonight and you know some see me as the woman of the year

00:00:12.000 some see me as a woman of a year and some change as I only publicly came out online 560 days ago

00:00:20.160 and some people don't see me as a woman at all I know which is why receiving this honor from a queer 0.99

00:00:31.520 publication like attitude means so much more to me because here's what I've realized you ready okay

00:00:38.000 so no matter how hard I try or what I wear or what I say or what surgeries I get I will never reach an

00:00:47.440 acceptable version of womanhood by those hateful people's standards but as long as I have the

00:00:53.520 queer community that sees me for my truth I'm going to be okay

00:01:00.880 and I'm equally grateful that this title is happening in the UK and not just because I am

00:01:07.200 deeply attracted to your accents which I am but because I came to London on holiday this summer

00:01:14.560 after months of feeling isolated and when I arrived I didn't feel that baggage that I was carrying back

00:01:21.280 in the US and I didn't feel like the trans beer girl you know I didn't walk into rooms and wonder

00:01:28.400 oh does that person hate me um I was just another gal walking around in a Burberry trench on her way to a 0.75

00:01:34.960 West End musical and you know I romanticized this country as a safe place and as dangerous as it is

00:01:43.920 for trans people here right now like the hate that was spewed last week maybe it's less about

00:01:49.760 where we are and more about who we're with and that if I'm surrounded by people like you all that

00:01:56.480 this still can be one of my safe spaces so when you have a win for trans rights that's a win for us 0.98

00:02:05.280 back in the states too and I think if we all just adopt a girl's girl mentality and we say goodbye to the 0.98

00:02:11.600 scarcity complexes that we have a better chance of getting through this because they want us to

00:02:16.720 be in competition with each other they would love nothing more than to see the L's and the B's and 0.97

00:02:21.600 the G's turn their backs on the T's and to quote the critically acclaimed high school musical franchise

00:02:30.240 we're all in this together I know almost as profound as Shakespeare but I I wanted to give a quick shout out

00:02:38.320 to some of the girls girls in my life both cis and trans that have helped me break away from my scarcity

00:02:44.240 and step into my womanhood firstly my mom for navigating being the parent of a trans daughter 0.98

00:02:50.720 while you are watching your child just get slammed by extremist media she deserves a vacation and maybe

00:02:56.880 also a Xanax um the gals who glam me and make me feel beautiful Angie Kelly Donnie and special shout out to

00:03:04.160 the NYC glam dolls Zenobia and Laurel because dolls will always make you looking right am I right

00:03:10.800 to my life coach Maury who has cradled the many tears to my agent Steph who has fought for me in an

00:03:16.320 industry that can be deeply transphobic to my best friend since we were 10 Lily who is my date tonight

00:03:22.560 and my forever plus one you are the kind of woman that I strive to be and I cannot wait to eat room

00:03:28.480 service with you at 4am later to the non-binary and gender non-conforming friends in my life Alok

00:03:34.640 Jonathan Van Ness fight master thank you for reminding me of life off the binary and Travis who

00:03:41.600 worked on the piece for attitude which you should all check out non-binary humans can and should have

00:03:46.880 a place in both womanhood and the trans experience because remember no scarcity complex allowed around

00:03:53.280 here and most of all to the trans woman in my life you have shown me more grace wisdom patience and

00:04:00.080 empathy than I deserve and it's kind of epic that if I did list out all those names we'd be here all

00:04:05.280 night but I still am gonna so Sasha Sasha Colby no I'm kidding I'm kidding um but I've got a lot of

00:04:10.720 sisters in the dollhouse so you are all my women of the year all these gals that I've mentioned as well 0.73

00:04:16.000 as many more are a part of my crew and are the reason that I'm still alive I hope you all have your

00:04:21.360 crews too now let's party and I am interested in dual citizenship so don't be shy come dance with

00:04:30.240 me tonight okay I love you

Western Standard - October 12, 2023