Trans activist Federico Barbarossa entered the Miss Italy pageant after its organizer said trans women weren’t allowed. His protest went viral and more than 100 trans men signed up, he said.
    • Ranvier@sopuli.xyz
      35·
      8 months ago

      As far as I can tell after some googling the protest was unsuccessful, and trans women remain banned from competing in Italy. I didn’t see any trans men in the contestant lists, so presumably the organizers denied all their applications. Miss universe did have two trans contestants though, one from the Netherlands and one from Spain I think.

  • ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi
    48·
    8 months ago

    I’m convinced selecting trans women into those pageants, given who runs them, is a psyop to stir up the reactionaries against the women and the progressives in defense of them, leaving nobody behind to discuss…

    Why on earth are we still having these dated creep shows in this day and age? They already felt like a comeback to the 1960s in 2010

    • jarfil@beehaw.org
      16·
      8 months ago

      They felt like a comeback to the 1960s in 1990… and thereupon lies your answer: they’re shows for boomers, designed for when they were 18±5 years old, and still catering to the same audience. Kind of like Eurovision.

      As anecdotal reference, I’ve recently heard a boomer-aged gent, get scandalized by the “oversexualization” of modern pop singers… then proceed to watch a Miss contest, followed by an Eurovision “let’s pick our candidate” show 😒