• @maynarkh@feddit.nlEnglish
    41•1 year ago

    They are trans men, who the organizers consider women as opposed to the trans women who can’t compete because they consider them men.

      • PeiPei1English
        44•1 year ago

        I’ll summarize:

        • The contest organizers don’t accept trans women (AKA assigned male at birth, transitioned to female)

        • This means that they are being transphobic, they aren’t treating trans women as women.

        • The person in the article is the opposite, assigned female at birth and transitioned to male. AKA a trans man.

        • This person is considered a woman by the beauty contest despite identifying as male.

        • He entered the beauty contest as a form of protest and to bring attention to the blatant transphobia.

        • @Lorium_O@lemm.eeEnglish
          -46•1 year ago

          “Transphobia” idk I just think they don’t want certain ideologies in their shows. Makes sense to me but you guys will probably start spamming slurs at me if I keep speaking so…

          Edit: I agree the rules are dumb and contradictory but calling it transphobia is just hilarious to me

      • @Jeanschyso@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19•1 year ago

        So like, according to the organizers, if they were born with a penis, it doesn’t matter if they transitioned, they are considered men.

        This trans man (a person born with a vagina who transitioned ) is entering the contest, because if trans women are considered men, trans men are considered women.

        So this dude is entering a “female” beauty contest to show how dumb the rules are. He is allowed to do so because said dumb rules make him a woman in the eyes of the organization.