• PeiPei1@lemmy.world
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      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.

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      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.