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Eclectic Cyborg6/30/2023 1:31:23 pm PDT

For months now, trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney has been subjected to some of the nastiest harassment and attacks of the internet era—all for merely being trans and helping to promote a beer brand back in April. As Bud Light became the next frontier of the right’s batshit, anti-trans culture war, Mulvaney said in a video Thursday that her life was upended by the hate she received, which has included “more bullying and transphobia than I could have ever imagined” and left her “scared to leave my house.”

And she’s apparently received no support whatsoever from the company that propelled her into the spotlight.

“For a company to hire a trans person and then not publicly stand by them is worse, in my opinion, than not hiring a trans person at all—because it gives customers permission to be as transphobic and hateful as they want,” Mulvaney said, without naming Bud Light specifically. She continued, “I’m not telling you this because I want your pity. I’m telling you this because if this is my experience from a very privileged perspective, know that it is much, much worse for other trans people.”

The influencer explained that she waited to talk about her experience because she hoped the situation would improve, or the company might express public support for her. Neither happened, and the deluge of right-wing threats and attacks targeting Mulvaney only continues to escalate.