Wats0nsTrans men enter Miss Italy contest to protest anti-trans ‘women from birth’ rule
Elia Bonci, who also spoke to la Repubblica, said: “I took courage, used my deadname and signed up for Miss Italy because fighting transphobia is intersectional and even though I’m not a trans woman, I’ve decided to fight for their rights.”
much respect to all that followed!
I’m confused. If they are using a dead name how are they not trans?
They are trans men, who the organizers consider women as opposed to the trans women who can’t compete because they consider them men.
I’m gonna need a pen and paper for this one.
I’ll summarize:
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The contest organizers don’t accept trans women (AKA assigned male at birth, transitioned to female)
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This means that they are being transphobic, they aren’t accepting trans women as women.
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The person in the article is the opposite, assigned female at birth and transitioned to male. AKA a trans male.
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This person is considered a woman by the beauty contest.
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He entered the beauty contest as a form of protest in and to bring attention to the blatant transphobia.
“Transphobia” idk I just think they don’t want certain ideologies in their shows. Makes sense to me but you guys will probably start spamming slurs at me if I keep speaking so…
Imotali“We exist” isn’t an ideology.
Fair but I just thought calling it transphobia was over the top
Kaity AYou are actually a little bit correct.
Most uses of the misnomer “transphobia” are actually incorrect, because the people involved aren’t actually suffering from an irrational medical or psychological fear of transgender people.
What they actually are is more accurately something called “transmisia”, because they are transmisic, which means they are heavily prejudiced against transgender women and believe that they shouldn’t be involved in the competitions.
Their reason for this is not because the transgender women don’t meet the entry conditions, or don’t pass the judging categories, but because they just don’t want them there purely because of their trans-mysogynistic preconceptions.
You are actually a little bit incorrect.
In the vein of words like homophobia, these words’ definitions are not strictly in line with their etymology. Per every dictionary (www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/transphobia?ut…), transphobia is defined as:
irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against transgender people
And this might create some linguistic ambiguity, but I cannot seem to find actual documentation on a medical or psychological fear of transgender people at all. It seems this behavior is entirely (or almost entirely) a learned bigotry.
The other word, “transmisia”, has not really been officially adopted in any circle I can find. The only place I could find it with any prominance is a site called the “Trans Language Primer”, and I know nothing about it (except that it looks like geocities) so I won’t be linking it directly. Suffice to say, they speak negatively of the term (despite defending it as having a good intention) and favor “transphobia” for reasons of clarity.
