I’ve seen my entire family grow and completely evolve in their views. I know that I was put in my parents’ life for a reason. We fight like sisters, but I firmly believe that a child is placed in a parent’s life for a reason. My dad and his fiancé and my best friend’s family - they’re like a chosen family - are coming. What is your relationship like now with your family? Trans people really are some of the most important people you can have during a transition because at first, I think I was coveting the approval of cis women so desperately that I lost sight of the community that really matters and that I really want to represent, which is trans people, especially trans-feminine people. I’m just really grateful that that was my first person I had met. I was enamored by them… Just to watch someone so confidently, there was some swagger there in this, like, “I know who I am.” I wanted that so desperately. Fightmaster, who plays a really beloved character on “Grey’s Anatomy.” We met doing a comedy improv show at UCB. The first true nonbinary person that I grew close to was E.R. I didn’t know that there were options or resources. I told her, “I’m a girl.” We were very, very religious so she was like, “God doesn’t make mistakes.” But I didn’t know that I could transition. Watching Laverne Cox on “Orange Is the New Black” and just being like, “Oh my gosh, that’s an option, that’s a thing.” I came out to my mom at 4. I caught up with Mulvaney for this week’s episode of the “ Just for Variety” podcast just after she checked into New York’s Plaza Hotel to get ready for show rehearsal. In October, she was invited to the White House to discuss trans issues with President Joe Biden. Since then, she’s amassed almost 11 million followers on TikTok and more than 1.7 million on Instagram. Back at her childhood home in San Diego with her “very conservative family,” she came to terms with her gender identity and began her transition. Mulvaney was appearing in “The Book of Mormon” on Broadway when the world shut down due to the pandemic.
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