Dylan Mulvaney will be the first man to be in an all-female cast on Broadway.
Dylan Mulvaney is headed to Broadway, and the headlines want you to treat this as a miracle. Dreams fulfilled. Barriers broken. Progress achieved. The only problem is that this story collapses the moment you say the most basic sentence out loud.
Dylan Mulvaney is male.
Not a metaphor, a mood, or a vibe, but a male human being.
That fact is now considered impolite to mention, which tells you everything about how distorted this conversation has become. Mulvaney has been cast as Anne Boleyn in the musical SIX, a show built around the lives of Henry VIII’s wives. It is marketed as a feminist retelling, promoted as a celebration of women, and now described as an all-female cast.
Except it is not.
Although @SixBroadway has closed down their account due to backlash after casting Dylan Mulvaney in the Broadway musical Six as Anne Boleyn, you can continue to tell them that giving women’s roles to men is unfair!
Women had to fight to participate in the theater. Like the vast… pic.twitter.com/OaHWxjjp5i
— Amy E. Sousa, MA Depth Psychology (@KnownHeretic) January 18, 2026
Why I’m Not Staying Quiet
I am writing about this more often because too many women are being pushed into silence through social pressure and intimidation rather than honest argument. We are told to soften our language, lower our voices, and make ourselves smaller for the comfort of others. I think that logic is exactly backward. What we need is more women speaking plainly about biological reality, not fewer.
We are being trained to accept that words no longer mean what they mean. Female no longer means female. Woman no longer means woman. All-female no longer means all-female. If you point this out, you are told you are hateful, backward, or afraid.
Afraid of what, exactly.
Shut Up You Stupid Women – It’s a Man’s World
I regret to inform you all that Dylan Mulvaney is making headlines once more for, like before, the unforgivable crime of being transgender and existing. Please, if you need to take a moment to process her sins in your heart and mind, I understand… I’ll be waiting for you when you return.
Okay. All better? Let’s proceed.
SIX is a musical about the lives of Henry VIII’s six wives. If you’re unfamiliar, Henry was a brutish dweeb who embraced the Church of England because the pope wouldn’t let him divorce his wives for failing to provide for him a son who could inherit the throne, leading to a spate of annulments and two whole ass beheadings. Now, far be it from me to critique a foreign nation’s domestic policy, but I have to say that seems like an extreme punishment to me!
Well, if you aren’t sent into an apoplectic rage by the existence of Dylan Mulvaney, you’ll be excited to hear that she’s making her Broadway debut as Anne Boleyn in SIX. If you fall into the other camp of apoplectically enraged twerps, I have bad news for you… not only is Mulvaney scheduled to continue existing, she seems to be daring to thrive. – Assigned Media
This Is Not Shakespeare
This is usually where someone brings up Shakespeare, as if they have discovered a clever historical defense. Yes, men played women in Shakespeare’s time. They did not do this because gender was fluid or identity was a performance. They did it because women were barred from the stage by law and custom.
That distinction matters.
Men playing women back then was a workaround for discrimination. It was not a claim that women were unnecessary. It was not an argument that sex was imaginary. Everyone understood the difference between the actor and the role.
What is happening now is the opposite. Women are allowed on stage, but we are being told our bodies no longer matter. Our categories are treated as optional. Our stories are being detached from us.
Back then, women were excluded.
Now, women are being erased.
This Is Not Just Theater
Mulvaney’s defenders insist this is harmless, calling it joy, self-expression, and courage, and treating it as just another example of boundary-breaking art, no different from drag or camp.
That is not true.
SIX is not a drag show. It is not parody. It is not satire but a show explicitly marketed as a feminist reclaiming of women’s history, built around the idea that these women were flattened by time and are now reclaiming their voices.
If women’s stories can be told without women, then women are not the point.
They call this inclusion, but it functions as replacement.
This Was Always a Performance
Mulvaney is not some private person quietly pursuing a love of theater. He is a public figure whose brand has been built around a stylized, theatrical version of femininity. His “365 Days of Girlhood” series did not explore womanhood. It caricatured it. The baby voices, the exaggerated helplessness, and the costume-like femininity were not expressions of being female.
They were impressions.
Dylan Mulvaney is a 26 year old man.
Pretending to be a woman wasn’t enough so now he’s pretending to be a little girl?
This isn’t normal. This is mental illness. pic.twitter.com/1LA7IbLqyt
— CJ Pearson (@Cjpearson) March 19, 2023
Dylan Mulvaney is just a failed gay man who fell into the gift of trans when he realised his acting career was going nowhere m pic.twitter.com/Md57Lh7H0Y
— Jack David (@FFS_WhatNow) March 13, 2025
Here’s the Actual Problem
Performance is not the same thing as reality. Drag is not the same thing as womanhood. Theater is not the same thing as biology. None of these become interchangeable simply because someone insists they are.
This matters because Mulvaney did not just perform this persona. He monetized it and marketed it as a representative of women. That is what triggered many people, including me, to boycott companies like Ulta.
Not because a man wants to wear makeup but because womanhood was being rewritten as a costume.
Now that costume is walking onto a Broadway stage and being hailed as a piece of female history.
If Mulvaney takes a role written for a woman, marketed as a woman, and celebrated as a woman, then what exactly is happening to actual women? What do you call it when a group that once fought to be included is told they are no longer necessary?
This is the question nobody wants to answer.
They Don’t Argue. They Shame.
The Assigned Media article I read never engages the argument. It opens with mockery, name-calling, and moral scolding. Anyone who objects is described as a loser, a villain, or a bigot. The writer never defines what a woman is and fails to explain how an all-female cast includes men. Of course not, because these people live in some fantastical world where they think men can become women. Nor does the article explain why female stories no longer require female bodies.
Instead, the writer tells YOU how to feel. This is their tactic; they want to shame and bully you into complicity, and believe me when I tell you that remaining silent is complicity.
That article frames disagreement as cruelty. It frames boundaries as violence and frames women who speak up as monsters.
This is called emotional blackmail.
Boundaries Are Not Bigotry
Women are allowed to say no, to notice when our spaces are being redefined out of existence, and to object when language is twisted until it collapses.
This is not about stopping anyone from pursuing theater. Mulvaney can perform wherever he wants. That is not the issue. The issue is the deliberate rewriting of female categories, followed by a demand that women applaud their own erasure.
The irony here is not subtle. Women were once barred from the stage by law. Now we are being erased by language. The mechanism has changed, but the result is familiar. Say that out loud, and you are called hateful, even though that word has been stretched so thin it no longer holds any meaning at all.
Women are not bigots for wanting female stories to belong to female bodies. We are not cruel for noticing when our category is being hollowed out. We are not obligated to pretend this is normal.
Expect more of this from me on the blog because we need more voices pushing back.
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