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Transitioning can be a scary and lonely process depending on the support system a person has available to them. In some ways it can be intimidating when the only examples someone has are people who are already fully transitioned, or have spent years living fully out as their gender discovered after birth. A comedian from Los Angeles, Dylan Mulvaney, found herself looking around for folks that were in the early stages of transitioning when she was starting her journey. She started recording videos for her own use, but quickly found herself with more than a million followers.

Mulvaney had discovered long ago that she was indeed a girl, and made the declaration to her mother at the age of 4, she told Good Morning America. “When I was 4 years old, I came to my mom and said, ‘Mom I’m a girl trapped in a boy’s body. Help!’” Mulvaney began her transition journey at the age of 25, stating that “ultimately, I had to do that to honor who I truly am. And now I’ve never been happier. And it feels so good to know that, like, all of the darkness throughout my life, all of the experiences that I’ve gone through … the hard conversations have all been worth it.”

Mulvaney has been sharing her journey with humor and while her videos were meant to be a sort of diary to mark how far she has come, she has been touched by the amount of support she has received. She gained her first million followers in just three weeks, and told GMA, “I didn’t know I was this worthy of love or this worthy of attention, and there’s something really affirming in the fact that, like, I now know that like I am a good person. I have good to put out in the world,” Mulvaney said. “I am grateful for every single human being that’s along with me.”

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Day 11- Hormones 🏳️‍⚧️🌈❤️ #trans #hormones

Mulvaney shares her series titled “Day ___ of Girlhood” where she not only documents her transition, but points out things she had not considered before beginning to transition. In one of her videos she shares about how she froze when a woman in a public restroom stall asked to borrow a tampon. Before transitioning, she had not thought about being asked for a tampon, but since that interaction, she keeps them in her purse in case anyone should need one when she’s around.

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Day 12- TAMPONS #trans #tampon

Mulvaney says she’s received messages from people who have been encouraged by her journey and have decided to now come out to their families as trans. Parents of trans children have told her that they watch her videos with their children. “Anytime that a trans person reaches out and says that, like, I’m going through the same thing … that is, like, such a gift,” she says, “because I want to represent the trans community in the best light possible. The support from cis women has been insane and magical, because it feels like I really am part of something now and they’ve like accepted me into womanhood.”

Mulvaney went on to share a message for people who are thinking about transitioning, “First of all, I’m proud of you,” she said. “Second of all, take your time. This is not a race. It is probably one of the biggest decisions you’ll ever have to make in your life and one of the craziest journeys that you’ll go on. Start with people that you know, 100%, will support you and love you.” Sharing her story can help others feel comfortable to share theirs. It can also help destigmatize what it means to be trans. While Mulvaney didn’t set out to be in the spotlight with her transition, she’s embracing her new found TikTok fame and showing people how to show up authentically as themselves, while being vulnerable and honest.

In “Yeah, Sure, Why Not?” news, Jason Momoa is reportedly in final negotiations for a live-action Minecraft movie from… (checks notes)… Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess. Hollywood, is there anything they can’t do?

Following the success of The LEGO Movie, Warner Bros. has been trying to get a Minecraft film off the ground for years. Like the toy building bricks, the video game captured the imaginations of millions of children around the globe. Minecraft became such a massive hit for Mojang Studios that Microsoft stepped in and bought the whole company. Now, Warner Bros. is hoping to mine the franchise for box office gold.

Via The Hollywood Reporter:

Warners has been developing a project based on the game for years, with Shawn Levy and It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia star Rob McElhenney among those who have been attached to direct.

Gaming movies have been on a hot streak in recent years, with 20th Century launching a hit franchise with Ryan Reynolds’ Free Guy last year, and Paramount finding success with its Sonic sequel earlier this month.

Momoa’s involvement continues a hot streak of franchises for the actor. The Aquaman star was last seen as Duncan Idaho in Dune, and he recently signed on to play the new villain in Fast & Furious 10. While that last one sounds pretty rad, the real question is how well can Momoa build a video game house that fills up with zombies and chickens if you forget to close the door. That’s going to make or break this whole thing.

(Via The Hollywood Reporter)

Hillbilly whisperer J.D. Vance was endorsed by Donald Trump in the Republican Senate primary in Ohio last week, despite fears from the “haters” out there that he’s backing another loser. “After NBC dropped a story this week saying Trump was likely to endorse Vance, a ton of people bombarded Trump begging him not to — including major GOP and Trump donors backing Mandel,” Axios reports. Nevertheless, he persisted — despite Vance’s history of now-deleted anti-Trump tweets (“Like some others, J.D. Vance may have said some not so great things about me in the past, but he gets it now,” Trump said in his endorsement statement). Vance also reportedly called the former-president “America’s Hitler” in a message to his old roommate, Rep. Josh McLaurin (D-GA).

“The screenshot below is @JDVance1’s unfiltered explanation from 2016 of the breakdown in Republican politics that he now personally is trying to exploit. The ‘America’s Hitler’ bit is at the end. The public deserves to know the magnitude of this guy’s bad faith,” McLaurin tweeted about the once-“Never Trump guy.”

The screenshot shows Vance admitting that he’s “not surprised by Trump’s rise, and I think the entire party has only itself to blame. We are, whether we like it or not, the party of lower-income, lower-education white people, and I have been saying for a long time that we need to offer those people SOMETHING (and hell, maybe even expand our appeal to working class black people) or a demagogue would. We are now at that point.”

Vance continued, “I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler. How’s that for discouraging?” You can see McLaurin’s tweets below.

Jack Harlow’s ascent has been front and center of the music world as of late and now he has just cemented it with his first solo No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100. Harlow’s latest single, “First Class,” debuted at No. 1 on this week’s chart (dated April 23), unseating Harry Styles’ short-lived run at the top with “As It Was.”

Harlow has technically had a song claim the top spot on the Hot 100 before, because he was featured on Lil Nas X’s smash hit “Industry Baby,” but this is a different animal for sure. Before “First Class” topped the chart, Harlow’s previous solo high was at No. 2 for “Whats Poppin” in 2020. Harlow seems pretty pleased with himself today though, tweeting out “How does it taste?” along with an image of Billboard’s official announcement.

Styles’ “As It Was” drops a spot to No. 2 this week, with “Heat Waves” by Glass Animals coming in at No. 3. Latto’s “Big Energy” drops down to No. 4 while”Enemy” by Imagine Dragons featuring JID rounds out the Top 5.

This was also the second No. 1 ever for Harlow’s producer Rogét Chahayed, who was also behind the boards for Travis Scott’s “Sicko Mode.” Chahayed is part of the production squad for “Nail Tech” as well, the other single off of Harlow’s upcoming album, Come Home The Kids Miss You, which is due out on May 6th.

Jack Harlow is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The Memphis Grizzlies are down 1-0 after Anthony Edwards had a monster performance to lead the Timberwolves to a road upset in Game 1 on Saturday. With two days off before Game 2, the Grizzlies have plenty of time to stew on what happened in the opener and get themselves fired up for a chance to even the score on Tuesday night.

For Ja Morant, that meant finding some inspiration from the GOAT, as he posted one of the best clips from The Last Dance on Sunday night to Instagram (in the slide after a photo), of Michael Jordan smoking a cigar and swinging a bat in his locker while explaining why he’s not bothered in the slightest by losing a Game 1.

“So what? We lost one game,” Jordan says. “Well it’ll be a dog fight tomorrow. But that’s alright. Let’s see if all that trash talkin starts when it’s 0-0 instead of a 5-6 point lead. That’s where it starts. That’s the sign of a good man. If you can talk shit when it’s even score, or when you’re behind score. When you’re ahead, it’s easy to talk. ”

Ja told reporters on Monday that he was watching The Last Dance to channel that energy going into Game 2 and get himself even more hyped up to try and even the series with Minnesota.

The Grizzlies will get that chance on Tuesday night at 8:30 p.m. on NBATV and there’s clearly plenty of motivation on the Memphis side to get themselves in the win column before they trek north to Minnesota.

If there’s one thing the Coachella festival does better than most, it’s in yielding a ton of surprise on-stage collaborations throughout the weekend’s celebration. People have been swooning over Billie Eilish bringing out Khalid and Gorillaz leader Damon Albarn during her headlining set on Saturday, just as much the world is taking notice of Brazilian pop sensation Anitta after she brought out Snoop Dogg and Saweetie for her Friday Coachella debut. Meanwhile, on the indie side of things, London’s Arlo Parks brought out Phoebe Bridgers to perform Parks’ hit “Black Dog” and all of the feels ensued.

For Parks, whose album Collapsed In Sunbeams won the 2021 Mercury Music Prize, Bridgers has been a well-documented fan of hers, calling Parks “an incredible poet.” So, when both of the acts were billed to perform on Saturday, desert magic happened when Parks was on the Mojave Stage. Bridgers, who was scheduled to play on the festival’s Main Stage later in the day, did a gorgeous duet of “Black Dog” with Parks. The pair sang in unison sparingly during the first verse, but were lock-step in sync for the chorus and the powerful lyrics, “It’s so cruel what the mind can do for no reason.” Then, Bridges took the entire second verse on her own and it was truly a special moment for two incredible artists singing this beautiful and impactful song together.

Watch Parks and Bridgers perform “Black Dog” at Coachella above.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The USFL started up this weekend, with the 8-team league getting underway in Birmingham, where all games are being played for this season despite there being seven other cities represented in the fledgling league.

It is a spring football league, which is to say the question is whether it can gain sustained traction during a portion of the sports calendar where the NBA and NHL are starting the playoffs, the football world is focused on the NFL Draft, and the MLB regular season has just begun. That remains to be seen, but early returns weren’t great for attendance in Birmingham — not aided by playing games on Easter Sunday — and the league’s quest for some name-brand recognition on coaching staffs has created a familiar problem of uninspiring, old school football without the requisite talent to make it palatable.

Part of that old school approach was on full display in a viral video from a league produced documentary that showed Pittsburgh Maulers running back De’Veon Smith getting cut by coach Kirby Wilson for…asking a hotel employee for pizza instead of chicken salad.

Wilson claims Smith violated a rule in his 46-page handbook that calls for a zero-tolerance policy against disrespecting any coaches, teammates, or staffers at the facility or hotel, while Smith insists he wasn’t disrespectful and just responded “yes” when asked if it would be a problem if he couldn’t get some of pizza, before the interaction ended. Teams cut players for all manner of reasons, but requesting an alternative to the chicken salad being served at the team hotel and that being determined as disrespectful behavior is certainly a new one.

Smith responded to the video going viral on Twitter by reasserting that he was not being disrespectful and still can’t believe what happened.

Plenty of others from the world of football have pointed out how ridiculous this is, and while it’s getting the USFL some publicity, I’m not sure it’s the best thing for the league that this many people are mad about the treatment of Smith.

For most of the day so far, the music world was focused on looking back at the first weekend of Coachella. Everything changed this afternoon, though, when Kendrick Lamar came out of nowhere and announced that his next album is called Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers and it’s set for release on May 13.

Lamar shared the news via a tweet and almost immediately after doing so, he became the No. 1 trending topic on Twitter. While most of the conversation consisted of excited knee-jerk reactions to the news, some fans took a minute to observe how Lamar’s announcement bears a striking resemblance (intentionally, it appears) to an iconic Michael Jordan moment.

Lamar shared the news via a simple letter that plainly states the news of his album, with the formatting of the note seemingly modeled after the famously minimalist fax MJ sent in 1995 to confirm he was ending his retirement and returning to the NBA. Journalist Andreas Hale also observed that Lamar’s announcement comes almost exactly 27 years after Jordan’s: MJ’s note was dated March 18, 1995, while Lamar’s is from today, April 18.

Imitating the Jordan fax has actually become a bit of a trend in hip-hop lately: Migos did the same thing last May and Logic followed suit the next month.

Check out some more Lamar reactions, to both the Jordan similarities and to the album news more broadly, below.

Netflix’s can’t-look-away Victorian drama Bridgerton is known for its steamy romance plotlines and Tumblresque monologues about love and all that good stuff. For the second season, Rupert Young took over as main character Lord Featherington, whose good-guy charm was a bit deceiving. But who cares about that, the fans really wanted to know why he didn’t go shirtless.

While the show is known for its steamy shots, Young’s character was pretty tame and remained clothed for the season. “I was very happy,” the actor told Page Six. “I was slightly disappointed and also hugely relieved.” Sorry Bridgerton fans!

In fact, Young was even frustrated with the complicated buttons on his costume. Even if he wanted to, a shirtless scene would be tough. “There were certain times of the day that it was quite frustrating,” he says. “You can’t just quickly run out [for a bathroom break], it’s a big operation. I know it was easier for men but it was still very tricky.”

Young quickly assured that mag that it was worth it. “The costumes are so phenomenal, you know, we look so great in them and they’re so beautifully made that you couldn’t really complain.”

The second season of Netflix’s hit series dropped last month, with the second season shifting focus from Daphne to her brother Anthony Bridgerton as he fights for love while being the head of the family, all while keeping his clothes on…most of the time!

In light of Dr. Oz‘s Senate run in Pennsylvania, John Oliver not only went to town on the television doctor’s carpet-bagging campaign, but the Last Week Tonight host revealed that he’s been trolling Oz for years. Oliver kicked off the segment by showing Donald Trump’s recent endorsement — which is not going over well in MAGA world — and lamented having to hear the former president’s voice again.

“The first growl in that clip was like hearing the sound of a cranking lawn mower you know is about to sexually harass you,” Oliver quipped before roasting Oz for hilariously pretending to be a Pennsylvania resident. As Oliver went on to reveal, he knows Oz primarily lives in New Jersey and films in New York because they share the same studio. In fact, the Last Week Tonight offices are just across the hall, and that’s where Oliver has been waging a years-long trolling campaign by parking a statue of an alligator flipping the bird where Oz and his staff had to see it every day.

However, with Oz shutting down his show to focus on his campaign, Oliver felt bad about his staff, who he never realized had to work so hard to prevent The Dr. Oz Show from being even worse.

“He had to abandon his show to go run for Senate,” Oliver said. “And if any of his staff are coming back to our office in the coming weeks to clear their stuff out, we’ve actually left a new special message for them on our alligator: ‘I’m sorry, he seems like a f*cking nightmare.’ Because he really does.”

(Via Mediaite)