Dylan Mulvaney honored with ‘WOMAN OF THE YEAR AWARD ’
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Summary
In honor of the LGBTQ+ community's Women of the Year, I m sharing some of my favorite trans women of the past year, and how they have helped me break away from my scarcity complex and step into my womanhood.
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I am so honored to be here with you all tonight and you know some see me as the woman of the year
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some see me as a woman of a year and some change as I only publicly came out online 560 days ago
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and some people don't see me as a woman at all I know which is why receiving this honor from a queer
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publication like attitude means so much more to me because here's what I've realized you ready okay
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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
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acceptable version of womanhood by those hateful people's standards but as long as I have the
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queer community that sees me for my truth I'm going to be okay
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and I'm equally grateful that this title is happening in the UK and not just because I am
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deeply attracted to your accents which I am but because I came to London on holiday this summer
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after months of feeling isolated and when I arrived I didn't feel that baggage that I was carrying back
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in the US and I didn't feel like the trans beer girl you know I didn't walk into rooms and wonder
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oh does that person hate me um I was just another gal walking around in a Burberry trench on her way to a
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West End musical and you know I romanticized this country as a safe place and as dangerous as it is
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for trans people here right now like the hate that was spewed last week maybe it's less about
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where we are and more about who we're with and that if I'm surrounded by people like you all that
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this still can be one of my safe spaces so when you have a win for trans rights that's a win for us
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back in the states too and I think if we all just adopt a girl's girl mentality and we say goodbye to the
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scarcity complexes that we have a better chance of getting through this because they want us to
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be in competition with each other they would love nothing more than to see the L's and the B's and
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the G's turn their backs on the T's and to quote the critically acclaimed high school musical franchise
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we're all in this together I know almost as profound as Shakespeare but I I wanted to give a quick shout out
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to some of the girls girls in my life both cis and trans that have helped me break away from my scarcity
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and step into my womanhood firstly my mom for navigating being the parent of a trans daughter
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while you are watching your child just get slammed by extremist media she deserves a vacation and maybe
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also a Xanax um the gals who glam me and make me feel beautiful Angie Kelly Donnie and special shout out to
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the NYC glam dolls Zenobia and Laurel because dolls will always make you looking right am I right
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to my life coach Maury who has cradled the many tears to my agent Steph who has fought for me in an
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industry that can be deeply transphobic to my best friend since we were 10 Lily who is my date tonight
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and my forever plus one you are the kind of woman that I strive to be and I cannot wait to eat room
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service with you at 4am later to the non-binary and gender non-conforming friends in my life Alok
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Jonathan Van Ness fight master thank you for reminding me of life off the binary and Travis who
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worked on the piece for attitude which you should all check out non-binary humans can and should have
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a place in both womanhood and the trans experience because remember no scarcity complex allowed around
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here and most of all to the trans woman in my life you have shown me more grace wisdom patience and
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empathy than I deserve and it's kind of epic that if I did list out all those names we'd be here all
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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
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sisters in the dollhouse so you are all my women of the year all these gals that I've mentioned as well
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as many more are a part of my crew and are the reason that I'm still alive I hope you all have your
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crews too now let's party and I am interested in dual citizenship so don't be shy come dance with