This is an opinion column.

Bigots must be killin’ it. Life must be good for the intolerant. For the close-minded. For the frightened. So good they’ve nothing better to do than lose their ever-lovin’ (or hatin’) minds over Dylan Mulvaney.

Than to make koozies mocking her.

True confession: A few days ago, I’d never heard of Dylan Mulvaney. Never heard the name. I was clueless.

I venture Kay Ivey hadn’t heard of Dylan Mulvaney either. Until she decided to deride her. To mock a 26- year-old. A young TikTok influencer with 10.8 million followers and another 1.8 million on Instagram. A trans woman who fueled her influencer rise by chronicling her gender transformation last year on TikTok.

It all totally passed me by.

Then folks started shooting beer cans. Cans of Bud Light. Folks were irate, up in arms, apoplectic over …. Dylan Mulvaney?

She got the bigots fired up and firing off tweets and such. Had them blasting Bud Light after Mulvaney posted a 48-second video on IG promoting the beer’s March Madness contest. In it, she sips from one of the blue Bud Light cans in front of her and talks of “celebrating my 365 days of womanhood.”

The video cuts to a Bud Light can featuring her face. “Best gift ever,” she says.

Last week, the bigots began blurting boycott. Kid Rock posted a video of himself shooting cases of Bud Light with an automatic weapon, then launching an F-bomb into the camera.

Bud boosters called for a boycott.

Related: Dylan Mulvey responds to Bud Light backlash

Anheuser-Busch, makers of Bud Light, caved like a crushed aluminum can. The company put two marketing execs on leave after the brouhaha, one of whom received targeted harassment.

This week, the bigots aimed their lip gloss at Maybelline, the makeup giant. Someone dug deep enough into Mulvaney’s social media to find a reel of her using the company’s products for a makeover.

I mean, really. Bigots must be out there livin’ large if they have time for this.

And governing a state must not be too challenging either if four female Republican governors— including our own Gov. Ivey—have time in their schedules (and room in their hearts) to be petty, insolent, and just plain mean. To a 26-year-old.

Ivey, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee-Sanders, South Dakota Gov Kristi Noem, and Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds are touting Bud Light-blue “real woman” koozies featuring their mugs. They’re for sale on Huckabee-Sanders’ website. So, she, they’re cashing in on attacking a 26-year-old.

Is this where we are—state leaders (using that term very loosely today) taking shots at 26-year-olds trying to live their lives, breaking no laws (and—yeah, okay, this may be a bit petty, too—and likely earning more than the four female Republican governors combined)?

Don’t y’all have something better to do?

Like, expand Medicare, Gov. Ivey? Like better educate our children rather than fire administrators you hired over a word you and the far right can’t define? Like stop stripping thoughts of equity from preschool teacher training guides? Like stop funding bastions to treason—a/k/a the Confederacy? Like fix our deplorable prison system rather than just build prisons?

I have plenty more, but I’ll stop here:

Like recognizing there are transgender constituents in your own state. Despise, disrespect, and demean their choices, if you will. But on your own time. In the confines of your own close-minded, heart-hardened caves.

As governors, though, respect the office in which you serve and at least acknowledge that you represent them, too. Trans citizens matter, too.

Bud Light’s sales lost fizz in the days following the Mulvaney madness. Long term, we’ll see who wins—the boycotts or the buycotts. Or, most likely, Mulvaney.

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