Trans Miss Netherlands Winner Weighs In on Dylan Mulvaney Bud Light Scandal
transgender winner of the Miss Netherlands beauty pageant wants the haters to leave Dylan Mulvaney alone and called their treatment of her "horrible."Rikkie Valerie Kollé, 22, was crowned Miss Netherlands on Saturday, making her the first transgender woman to win the competition.
In December, she will head to El Salvador to represent The Netherlands at the Miss Universe pageant. She will be the second transgender woman to compete for Miss Universe after Angela Ponce represented Spain in 2018.Kollé's win was not without controversy and the model was inundated with negative comments and violent DMs from trolls who did not believe a transgender woman should have been allowed to compete, let alone win.Kollé's experience of toxic feedback is reminiscent of the vitriol targeted at Mulvaney, a transgender influencer who gained millions of followers on TikTok as she documented her transition.She became the target of online attacks after Bud Light hired her to do some sponsored posts and sent her a commemorative can with her face on it to celebrate the first year of her gender-affirming transition.
Mulvaney has described being too afraid to leave her house amid the backlash.For Kollé, the experience Mulvaney faced is "sad" and she said she couldn't understand why people would be so angry at someone just trying to get by in life."I think it's really to make the girl that low in confidence...
and judging her for being herself," Kollé told Newsweek. "I think it's horrible."Miss Netherlands herself has a unique way of perceiving the attention she gets from trolls online."They see us as monsters, and my daily DMs are full of people wishing me dead," she said.
