• maynarkh@feddit.nlEnglish
    5·
    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.

      • PeiPei1@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        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.