Meet Dylan Mulvaney 2.0! Transgender actress James Rose is doppelganger of controversial influencer
Transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney has been dominating the headlines lately due to backlash over her paid partnership with Bud Light and Nike and it turns out she has a doppelgänger.
James Rose is a trans actress who looks strikingly like Mulvaney and the pair are often mistaken for each other.
And they’ve starred in a light-hearted video together in an attempt to prove that they are, in fact, two different people.
Rose, who transitioned from male and identifies as gender fluid, has 450,000 followers on TikTok, where she regularly posts about trans issues.
She is friends with Mulvaney, a biological man who started transitioning in 2021 and was at her event last month to celebrate 365 days of “girlhood.”
James Rose is a trans actress who looks strikingly like Dylan Mulvaney and the pair starred together in a lighthearted video in an attempt to prove they are, in fact, two different people
James Rose, who transitioned from male and identifies as gender fluid, has 450,000 followers on TikTok, where she regularly posts about trans issues
James Rose’s earliest memories of feeling uncomfortable as a man began at a young age when she put towels and shirts on her head to signify long hair.
The pair were first seen together when they filmed a ‘crossover episode’ for their followers in May 2022.
Rose recently attended a party in NYC to celebrate Mulvaney’s first year as a woman.
Mulvaney has 10 million TikTok followers and sparked a storm of controversy in recent weeks after she was gifted a special BudLight can to commemorate the birthday.
Rose and Mulvaney scoffed at their similarities, pointing out that they are actually two different people.
Rose, who lives in New York, begins the video with “Day 61 of being a girl,” Mulvaney’s signature miniseries documenting her trans journey.
“Excuse me, that’s kind of my thing, but we can do it together,” Mulvaney replies before they both say, “Day 61 we’re a girl and we’re basically two different people.”
Rose then says, “Some people on TikTok don’t believe we’re not the same person,” before adding Mulvaney, “We’re here to make things right.”
And together they ask: ‘What is it about us that people are so alike?’
Mulvaney says, “Is it our brown hair?” Rose continues: “Is it the same sunglasses?”
“Is it our smile,” Mulvaney asks, and Rose says, “Is it our crop top,” before Mulvaney adds, “Is it our musical theater education?”
The pair then sing in unison before saying “love you” and blowing a kiss into the camera.
James Rose is friends with Mulvaney, a biological male who started transitioning in 2021 and was at her event last month to celebrate 365 days of femininity
Her dad hugged her when she came out as transgender and said “this makes so much sense, I love you so much”
Rose’s earliest memories of feeling uncomfortable as a man began at a young age when she put towels and shirts on her head to signify long hair.
She said, “My mom had long hair, Madeline in Paris had long hair, Jessie from Toy Story had long hair, I wanted long hair.”
“There are flickers when I have to wear shirts & towels & capes on my head & jump around & pretend I was just as pretty…& there are daggers where I was told it was inappropriate & boys don’t & Miss Patty is coming on it, James, would you please take that off.
Now I’m a genderfluid beauty parading around New York City with a bravado that would make Jessie and Madeline jealous and the only inappropriate thing was being denied who I was.
“My mom now goes shopping for me in the women’s section, and when I came to my dad, he hugged me and said, “This makes so much sense, I love you so much.”
Rose has appeared on stage and in film, and her credits include The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Never Let Me Go and Singin’ in the Rain.
She also uses her social media platforms to write about gender, liberation, eating disorder recovery, and trauma.
Her friend Mulvaney sparked widespread anger on April 1 when she promoted Bud Light, America’s best-selling beer, to her 11 million social media followers in a series of affiliate posts.
The posts, which showed the influencer sitting in a bathtub and showing off her face out of custom cans, sparked widespread anger among several celebrities who swore off beer in protest.
The collaboration drew strong backlash from some quarters, with musician Kid Rock posting a video of him shooting on Bud Light cases, and country singers John Rich and Travis Tritt cutting ties with the brand.
But media personalities like Joe Rogan and Howard Stern defended Bud Light’s decision.
Dylan Mulvaney’s April 1 Instagram post said she drank a beer with her face pressed to the can and lay in a bathtub knocking Bud Light back
Bud Light caused a backlash after it teamed up with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. She was spotted in Los Angeles on Friday
Beyond an initial succinct statement, Bud Light’s parent company, Anheuser-Busch, remained silent for two weeks after the controversy erupted on April 1, with the brand’s social media accounts going dormant as conservatives wept over the Mulvaney partnership.
As polarization swept through the pubs, with patrons exchanging insults and blaming each other’s beer choices, a handful of bar owners said they would stop selling Bud Light, at least temporarily, simply to avoid fights.
On Friday afternoon, Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth finally broke the company’s silence in a public statement cryptically titled “Our Responsibility To America.”
“It was never our intention to be part of a discussion that divides people. Our job is to bring people together over a beer,” Whitworth said in the statement, which did not directly address the partnership with Mulvaney.
Mulvaney’s paid partnership with Nike to promote the brand’s sports bra and leggings also generated considerable controversy.
She posed in a series of photos and videos in the workout gear, and furious feminists slammed Nike’s decision to give coveted sponsorship for a prominent women’s line to a transgender woman.