• maynarkh@feddit.nl
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      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.world
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          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.