Trans men enter Miss Italy contest to protest anti-trans ‘women from birth’ rule

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For context, Miss Italia is no longer broadcasted on important tv channels and almost no one watches or care about who wins now. Years ago (10?) it was a big thing and winners would make commercials and do movies/series and be remembered for life. But it’s too an old school concept now

Anyway, I love this turn of events

Source: Italian

I'm glad to hear Italy is moving past its Berlusconi era.

Does this mean we won't be able to see it live? Or at all?

I just googled it, apparently it might come back to the first national tv channel for 2023, we'll see, anyway it was streamed on the official website before that and for the last 4 years

Will they have the power to reject candidates? Maybe I'm naive to think they'll have the trans men compete too but I wanna see how it'll play out.

I think they totally can reject who they want... usually competitors are the winners of local beauty contest, so there's a lot of ways to be excluded before even reaching the last decision stage. But not sure, I never really cared for it