• maynarkh@feddit.nlEnglish
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      11 months 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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          11 months 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.