Trans TikToker Dylan Mulvaney responds to Caitlyn Jenner calling her an 'absurdity'

• TikToker Dylan Mulvaney has over 8 million followers and was invited to the White House last week.
• Mulvaney, who is a trans woman, was later criticized by Senator Marsha Blackburn and Caitlyn Jenner.

TikToker Dylan Mulvaney responded to Caitlyn Jenner's negative comments about her, calling on Jenner to "think back" to her own transitioning journey.

On October 30, Mulvaney posted a TikTok captioned, "Day 233 - a message to Caitlyn." In the video, Mulvaney spoke directly to Jenner and said, "I automatically have a lot of respect for you as a fellow trans woman. But then you decided to ridicule me very publicly."

Mulvaney, who has over 8 million followers, went on to show screenshots of Jenner's tweets, published between October 26 and October 27, including one in which Jenner misgendered the TikToker by using he/him pronouns in reference to Mulvaney's genitals.

The exchange between Jenner and Mulvaney is the latest in a series that began on October 25 when Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn tweeted a recording of a TikTok Mulvaney posted in May. In the video, Mulvaney spoke about walking around with a "bulge" in her trousers and called for people to "normalize the bulge."

"Dylan Mulvaney, Joe Biden, and radical left-wing lunatics want to make this absurdity normal," Blackburn wrote.

Jenner responded, "@MarshaBlackburn thank you for speaking out and having a backbone – one of the best senators we have. Let's not 'normalize' any of what this person is doing. This is absurdity."

In another tweet posted by Jenner on October 27, Jenner said that Mulvaney had been "normalizing exposing your genitals in a public way and a public place."

Mulvaney referenced both tweets in her response video, which received nearly 12 million views. She said that Jenner was making it sound like she was "some creepy flasher exposing myself" and said that her previous video about "a bulge" was not about indecent exposure.

Mulvaney implored Jenner to "think back" to the early days of her own transition journey. Mulvaney said that she made the video about her "bulge" because she was "embarrassed" about her body.

"I wanted to reclaim my body in a positive way, and now you've taken that and you turned it into something really ugly," Mulvaney said.

Mulvaney said that in the aftermath of Jenner's tweets about her, she has been subject to harassment and name-calling, including being called a "freak," a "child predator," and an "absurdity."

Addressing Jenner directly, Mulvaney said, "You have personally subjected me to thousands and thousands of hateful eyes, a number of which could very well want to hurt me, and that's the power you have."

Mulvaney added that "a trans person invalidating another trans person's transness is pretty evil," and said she no longer has any interest in "getting to know" Jenner.

Despite her apparent feelings towards Jenner, she told her followers to refrain from sending any hate or negativity towards Jenner, including misgendering the former Olympian.

Jenner previously said on Twitter that she received death threats from "the so-called 'inclusive' LGBT community," after tweeting about Mulvaney and other news topics in recent days. Jenner, an Olympic decathlete formerly married to Kris Jenner, came out as trans in 2015 and underwent a surgical transition in 2017.

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