Whoopi Goldberg got a shocked reaction out of transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney when she said female athletes ‘know what they’re doing.’
The passionate discussion on the latest episode of The View was initially focused on biological men who identify as females participating in women’s sports.
Goldberg asked for Mulvaney’s thoughts on California Governor Gavin Newsom saying last week that transgender athletes competing in women’s sports was ‘deeply unfair.’
Mulvaney, 28, who came out as trans in March 2022, deflected the question by saying she isn’t an athlete and isn’t all that knowledgeable about sports.
‘The last time I played a sport, I was six-years-old, and I was on a soccer team, but I assigned myself as the nurse, so I sat with the Band-Aids. And so in the words of ‘Wicked,’ I am not that girl,’ Mulvaney said.
She essentially deferred to Schuyler Bailar, a female-to-male transgender NCAA Division 1 swimmer, who said Newsom’s comments were ‘irresponsible, cowardly, and despicable.’
‘That’s someone who I really look to for guidance and I think that is what’s tricky, is like, now stepping into this identity, I’m still like a ‘baby trans,’ I’m only three years in,’ Mulvaney continued.
Goldberg then tried to relate the trans community’s struggles to the hurdles biological females face, which may have led to Mulvaney’s stunned facial expression.
Dylan Mulvaney gave this expression when Whoopi Goldberg made a comment about female athletes knowing ‘what they’re doing’
Goldberg previously asked Mulvaney about her opinion on transgender athletes participating in women’s sports, a question the influencer deflected for the most part
‘Part of the problem the trans community is facing, and it’s the same problem that women face, is if you don’t know anything about our bodies, you don’t know how it works,’ Goldberg began.
‘When you come in and you say, these are men competing against women, you’re assuming that the women are weak and just can’t do anything.
Pictured: The book cover of Mulvaney’s memoir
‘Have you seen female athletes? They know what they’re doing!’ Goldberg exclaimed directly at the camera.
The camera then panned to Mulvaney, who was awkwardly smiling at the 69-year-old daytime television host.
Mulvaney joined the show to promote her new book, ‘Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer.’
In the memoir, she writes about her coming-out story and her first year living as a transgender woman. She also delves into the backlash she received from conservatives after she did a branded post on social media for Bud Light in 2023.
Customers staged a boycott, while Kid Rock posted videos online of him shooting cases of Bud Light with a rifle.
The decision to hire Mulvaney is estimated to have cost Anheuser-Busch more than $1 billion in lost sales and knocked it off the number one best-selling beer spot in the US.
Harvard Business School has said she triggered one of the biggest boycotts in American history.
Mulvaney sparked what researchers at Harvard Business School called ‘one of the biggest boycotts in American history,’ when she partnered with Bud Light in 2023
Kid Rock, wearing a MAGA hat backwards, is pictured shooting cases of Bud Light after the Mulvaney controversy
Her book officially comes out on Tuesday, though while promoting it with The New York Times, she strangely asked for privacy while continuing to share the intimate details of her life to millions online.
‘I’m trying this new thing where I keep certain things to myself,’ Mulvaney wrote in the book. ‘Little yummy womanly moments just for me.’
However, the book notably discusses private moments including sexual intimacies and she told the Times her fans may find the book ‘a little raunchier than expected.’
It details how Mulvaney grew up in what she described as a conservative Catholic family in the San Diego area.
She started her career as a stage actor, appearing in several musicals – including a touring production of The Book of Mormon – before finding herself out of work when COVID shut down the show in 2020.
That’s when she started making video diaries of her transition from male to female.
Over the years, Mulvaney has been able to amass 9.2 million followers on TikTok and 2 million more on Instagram.
