Source: https://xcancel.com/EliErlick/status/2025973174454870071

In 1967, a 22-year-old trans woman won a rural Wyoming beauty pageant. She entered the contest just a year after transitioning. Unfortunately, the judges disqualified her when she came out to a competitor. I guess trans women have an unfair advantage in beauty pageants?

As a side note, I’d like to commend Bulletin for doing a better job than the New York Times or BBC and using her preferred pronouns.

  • dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    might just be relative to the US at the time tbh, Sweden today is probably far more trans friendly than in the 1960s all things considered

    • Jorunn (she/her)@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      unfortunately not true. or well, it’s probably not so easy to compare actually. technically any doctor can prescribe hrt, and any doctor can give you a diagnosis and sign off on surgery. an issue we face in scandinavia is that few doctors actually do this and you’re forced to go to certain transmedicalist hospitals that do all they can to do as little as possible for as few as possible. Unless you find an alternative ofc