DAN WOOTTON: The hate-filled gender lobby might deny reality

The rise of trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney is a waking fairy tale that has quickly turned into a very real horror story for women.

An attention-seeking gay music lover, the fame-hungry singer achieved only moderate success, appearing on stage in the Book of Mormon ensemble and briefly going viral for a bizarre dance routine as a contestant on the game show The Price Is Right.

Then began the “girlhood transition,” all faithfully documented in a myriad of TikTok videos designed to go viral by appealing to the awakened gender extremists and disturbing those equally championing the rights of biological women .

As someone who is deeply concerned about the very real assault on women’s rights, from sports to the preservation of segregated gender spaces to male rapists being sent to female prisons, I admit that I find the videos horrifying but compelling.

Time and time again, Dylan, who is now 26, equates becoming a woman with a number of sexist and stereotyped tropes about female behavior associated with so-called bimboism.

It started on ‘day one of being a girl’, when Dylan declares, ‘I’ve already cried three times. I wrote a scathing email that I didn’t send. I ordered dresses online that I couldn’t afford. And when someone asked how I was, I said, ‘I’m fine’, when I wasn’t fine.’

So that’s right, within 24 hours of applying some lipstick, Dylan has decided that the essential qualities of being a woman are a passive aggressive emotional wreck, spending money irresponsibly on expensive clothes.

But things soon got worse, with a constant stream of videos of Dylan lecturing the social media world about the fact that “women can have bulges,” “people of all genders use tampons, not just women,” and “real girls don’t wear tampons.” ‘. bras.

Offensive, right?

But amazingly, the new look more than worked, with Dylan’s follower count exploding into the millions.

Within just a few months, Dylan, who actually identifies as queer, showed up at the White House with Joe Biden and walked the red carpet at the Grammy Awards.

Anyone who dared to object to the troubling aspects of Dylan’s public embrace as the new face of women was instantly laughed at as a transphobe or a TERF.

And while Dylan isn’t involved, as top US swimmer Riley Gaines, who spoke out against fighting a trans rival Lia Thomas, found out last week at a university in San Francisco that taking a stance based on biological reality could now physically attack you by an increasingly increasingly violent trans lobby.

Equally disturbing are the big companies so desperate to worship at Wake’s altar that they soon decided to choose Dylan as their new female star.

All this growing brood of awakened corporations at stake is moving up a few places on the ladder of LGBT-friendly businesses, the so-called corporate equality index.

They might all have gotten away with it if Bud Light and Nike—two all-American brands—hadn’t joined the party within days of each other.

In one week, Dylan enraged conservative favorites like Kid Rock by getting a Bud Light endorsement deal to celebrate the achievement of “365 days of girlhood” linked to a promotion for the March Madness basketball league, despite conceding know nothing about the sport. as part of a futile ploy to change the image of America’s number one beer from fratty to inclusive.

But the straw that broke the camel’s back was Nike’s decision to team up with Dylan to promote its female sportswear, prompting calls for a boycott from elite sportswomen, including Sharron Davies and Caitlyn Jenner, herself a trans megastar.

In the video, Dylan is shown kicking his legs around as if they were parodying a high school cheerleader. It’s a far cry from the kind of crafty female athletes Nike has previously partnered with, like Serena Williams and Simone Biles.

Such a promotion was so blatant that it is now clear that these companies like Nike – still largely run by liberal men – are prepared to make fun of women.

How on earth can Dylan promote sportswear for women when he has no boobs and penis?

Female athletes are plagued with issues related to their unique bodies and menstrual cycles that are an important part of choosing the type of clothing to wear during competition.

Not to mention that Nike decided to overlook a generation of top female competitors, from Olympic medalists to World Cup winning soccer players, who were desperate to gain such lucrative support for a trans influencer who admits none of to know sports.

This time they really went too far!

Just like the other fashion and beauty brands like Kate Spade, Haus Labs, CeraVe and Ulta Beauty who pour huge dollars on Dylan in a cynical attempt to improve their own awakened image with the metropolitan elite in New York, Los Angeles and London.

But ordinary people have had enough of it now.

I strongly believe that transgender people should be able to live happy and fulfilling lives, but not at the expense of women (I refuse to call them biological or cisgender, by the way).

As a man, I believe it is my duty to stand up for my mother, sister, niece and friends who face a world where they are less safe and protected due to a very vocal group spreading misogynistic gender propaganda.

And as a gay man, I feel it is my duty to expose the homophobia intrinsic to the extreme gender ideology that Dylan helps popularize.

Coming out as a gay or lesbian teen is hard enough without immediately being convinced you’re probably the wrong gender.

I also believe that Dylan has come to do a serious disservice to transgender people.

Switching isn’t something that can be done in a few days; it’s a life-changing decision that, if done right, involves irreversible physical transformation, including hormone treatment and major surgery to alter highly sensitive areas of the body.

“Let dolls be dolls, please,” Dylan dramatically declared in a new TikTok clip recently while wearing a brightly colored dress with their hair tied in bows and bold colored circles painted on their cheeks.

But it’s time the companies that support this dangerous breed of gender extremism wake up and realize that this isn’t a game of dressing up like a doll and start standing up for what it really means to be a woman.