00:00 Well, after the Miss Italy pageant banned transgender women from participating in it,
00:07 over 100 transgender men entered the competition in protest.
00:12 Organisers said only those assigned female at birth could participate in the Miss Italy
00:16 pageant.
00:18 Miss Italy pageant organiser Patrizia made the decision to ban trans women soon after
00:23 a transgender woman was crowned winner of the Miss Netherlands pageant a first.
00:29 In an interview with Italian news outlet, Patrizia shared her disdain for pageants that
00:34 try to make the news using strategies that are a bit absurd.
00:39 She also stated that Miss Italy contestants could only be people who are assigned female
00:44 at birth.
00:45 Patrizia's come in found their way to transgender male activist Federico Barbarossa.
00:51 Barbarossa entered the pageant using the deadname he was assigned at birth to protest the pageant's
00:57 treatment of trans women.
00:59 In an interview with NBC News, Barbarossa shared that he found Patrizia's comment amusing,
01:06 stating, "Well, I was assigned female at birth."
01:10 His application went viral after mixed LGBTQIA+, a non-profit he works with, shared his pageant
01:19 entry on Instagram, encouraging other trans men to enter the pageant to show solidarity
01:24 for trans women.
01:25 Now, over 100 trans men have entered the pageant, meeting the technical requirement of being
01:32 assigned female at birth, and some have unintentionally made it to the second round of the pageant
01:38 process, according to the NBC report.
01:42 According to Barbarossa, the organizers of the pageant now really have to go through
01:47 every single application, and that he is hopeful that they will think better next time.
01:53 He further commented that banning trans women is sad because organizers would never think
01:59 that a trans person might even aspire to win a beauty pageant because we are seen as this
02:05 kind of three-headed monster.
02:08 He also hopes that, going forward, people will consider trans perspective before banning
02:13 trans people outright.
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