Dylan Mulvaney says she is ‘having trouble sleeping’ since Bud Light backlash erupted 

Trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney has said she’s been having trouble sleeping since backlash erupted over her collaboration with Bud Light and wondered what psychological effects calling out to a man thousands of times a day will have on her.

Her comments came during an episode of the “Dear Schuyler” podcast, hosted by trans athlete Schuyler Bailar and released Monday.

Mulvaney suggested that as the trans debate has escalated in the US, transphobia has become increasingly blatant, leading to an inhospitable “Wild West” for trans people.

On April 1, Mulvaney became embroiled in a controversy that made national headlines for weeks after she shared a promotional Bud Light can on Instagram with her face printed on it.

While she admitted to having trouble sleeping, she also said the barrage of hate that followed after the partnership taught her not to waste time trying to please everyone.

“I remember even in college, just a few years ago, if one person possibly didn’t like me, it would keep me awake at night and now there are hundreds of thousands of people who don’t like me,” she said.

“Sometimes I still can’t sleep, but in a weird way it’s been a blessing to break that people-friendly mindset because there’s no way I can win over those people,” she said.

“If you go back to some of my past videos, I begged these people, I thought, ‘What can I say to show them another part of myself? What can I do?'” she added.

Bailar, who hosted the podcast, was the first transgender athlete to compete as a swimmer on an NCAA Division 1 men’s team. He shared his own experiences dealing with criticism and commented on how Mulvaney had gotten into the news.

“You’ve been in the news a lot lately,” he said. “Sometimes it’s good, but often, I’m not going to tell you the headlines, often it’s not so good.”

“Oh, I know,” Mulvaney said, before explaining how negative coverage affected her and that she has retreated from social media.

“I’ve wondered a lot over the last week what the psychological effects are and will be of being called a man thousands and thousands of times a day,” she said.

Dressed in the same Burberry skirt suit she wore in the podcast, the 26-year-old activist said on Tuesday that she has learned to care less about the way she is judged

Last month, Bailar (right) hosted fellow trans swimmer Liam Thomas (left) on his podcast

Mulvaney went on to say that blocking the negative voices had the unfortunate consequence of silencing people who offered her support.

“I want to be accessible to the right people, but in a different way: if one person ruins it for all of us, I can’t check the DMs or I have to limit the comments,” she added.

She also said the process of trying to deal with the hate had made her more resilient, but she didn’t want to lose her sensitivity.

“What would make me sad more than anything is if I were too hardened as a person or became numb or didn’t care because I care about that part of myself so much. Sometimes I think we have to find the balance there,” she said.

Last month, Bailar hosted fellow trans swimmer Liam Thomas on his podcast. In that episode, they discussed the controversy surrounding allowing trans women athletes to compete on women’s sports teams.

Recent figures show that Bud Light sales in the US have plummeted as a result of the partnership with Mulvaney.

Dates from Beer business daily showed that sales of the number one brand in the US have fallen in all regions of the country.

Sales in the Rocky Mountain states fell the most, falling 29 percent, with the South Atlantic, West North Central, and East South Central all falling 25 percent.

However, that hasn’t stopped brands from continuing with Mulvaney. Three weeks after the Bud Light promotion, cosmetics company Maybelline sponsored a video posted to her TikTok.