• Imotali@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Mod here. Just want to openly and unequivocally state… I will remove your comment if you’re transphobic. I will refer to trans people to let me know if you are being transphobic. I will ban you if you make an egregiously off colour comment. and I will take pleasure in doing this. Fuck your transphobic bullshit, go somewhere else. Nobody wants you here.

  • eggvng@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Elia Bonci, who also spoke to la Repubblica, said: “I took courage, used my deadname and signed up for Miss Italy because fighting transphobia is intersectional and even though I’m not a trans woman, I’ve decided to fight for their rights.”

    much respect to all that followed!

      • maynarkh@feddit.nlEnglish
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        2 years 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.

          • PeiPei1@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 years 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.

  • krayj@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I think it would have been fair to have a rule saying “no surgical modifications”… because doing things like facelift, nose-job, breast/buttox implants, cheek lifts, wrinkle removal, etc, are obviously unfair advantages (in a beauty contest) for those who have the money pay for it; and having a generic blanket rule like that would have accomplished the same thing they were trying to accomplish without being so blatantly transphobic… so a rule like what they have only proves that they are both despicable AND dumb. The entire notion of beauty pageants is outdated and stupid if you ask me.

    • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Lol, you implement that and basically all beauty pageants stop existing. Which would be a good thing, mind you. But I’ve never met a pageant contestant in my life that isn’t … let’s say … heavily enhanced by medical procedures.

    • Move to lemm.ee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I think it would have been fair to have a rule saying “no surgical modifications”…

      How are you intending to prove that that? Only the bad surgery makes itself obvious.

      • krayj@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Like any kind of contest, finding rules violations is hard and not foolproof. It’s like sports that forbid using steroids - competitors do regularly take those substances while training, then quit taking them for competition and go uncaught. Competitors who are discovered later to have been violating rules are stripped of titles.

        That said, I don’t think it’s a very controversial concept that a beauty pageant shouldn’t be a contest about who could afford the best surgeons. Well - as I said earlier I think beauty pageants are absurd to begin with, but if they have to exist I don’t think it should be a contest between surgeons.

        • Deuces@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Though I would watch one that was a contest between surgeons. I imagine it’d start pretty tame, but the first time a girl with cat ears wins, were only like 5 years from the really crazy shit