263

Trans men enter Miss Italy pageant in droves after trans women are told they can’t compete (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Gaywallet@beehaw.org to c/lgbtq_plus@beehaw.org

13 comments fedilink hide all child comments

top 13 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[-] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 70 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

again?

*checks the article's date"

ah. I was hoping for some further development.

[-] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 35 points 3 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.

[-] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago

booo for Italy, and oh heck yes for the other two, then!

[-] SharkAttak@kbin.social 56 points 3 months ago

What is truly surprising is that people still pay attention to this kind of show.

[-] eveninghere@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago

So true. I was always a strange person as I showed no interest in Ms. high school, Ms. campus etc.

[-] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi 48 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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 😒

[-] germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 months ago

Excuse me, but I will not take this Eurovision slander

[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My mistake; Eurovision started in 1956, when the youngest "boomer" (born in 1946, or 9 months after WWII ended) was about 10 years old, so that would make them 19±5 in the 1960s.

Now the slander: this is "Operacion Triunfo 2024"

Await with great expectation for one of those artists to represent Spain this year... 🤷

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago

And then everyone got up and clapped.

[-] ItsAFake@lemmus.org 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Well not the boomer ageed gent, he was busy selecting Eurovision contestants.

[-] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Still is, they run the selection program from October/November the year before, until... well, it depends, this year they seem to be voting on a finalist right now, or something (sorry, I don't follow the thing too closely).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operaci%C3%B3n_Triunfo_(Spanish_TV_series)