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Should 'she' Be Allowed To Enter?
Boy living as a girl is finalist in beauty competition
Can any male just put on a dress, call themselves a female and instantly get female rights?
Which public toilets/changing rooms would 'she' use? Surely not the male ones???
...and surely there are 'beauty' competitions for transgenders 'she' could enter
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Can any male just put on a dress, call themselves a female and instantly get female rights?
Which public toilets/changing rooms would 'she' use? Surely not the male ones???
...and surely there are 'beauty' competitions for transgenders 'she' could enter
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It is a strange world. When folk get convinced and actually argue there is such a thing as a sex change operation, then I guess all bets are off and anything goes. Otherwise one has problems agreeing where to draw the line. I figure if the organisers had it as ok in the rules, then it's fine. Their competition, their rules.
Except of course that's not the rule that the Miss England contest applies. There are two scenarios in which there is no problem here: either you accept that they make their own rules, or you accept that gender is about more than biology. In either case, no-one should have any objection to this -- in both cases, it's because it's none of your business.
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The "fact" is that it's not up to you to make that determination, Joe. It is up, first and foremost, to Jordan, and second, to those involved in the legal aspects of changing the way your gender is recorded. No-one else's opinion matters in the slightest.
To call Jordan a "man dressed as a woman" is falsely making her the same as those men who do dress as women for fun but wouldn't want to, or at least don't, live as women on top of that. They are related, but there are also huge differences, and they shouldn't be lightly brushed aside. This is a permanent life choice, or at least intended currently as such, and is also very public too, which is another thing that isn't in common with a large number of men who might dress up as women.
To call Jordan a "man dressed as a woman" is falsely making her the same as those men who do dress as women for fun but wouldn't want to, or at least don't, live as women on top of that. They are related, but there are also huge differences, and they shouldn't be lightly brushed aside. This is a permanent life choice, or at least intended currently as such, and is also very public too, which is another thing that isn't in common with a large number of men who might dress up as women.
Perhaps the simplest answer is that someone is living as a woman if they are out presenting as a woman in public. Thus, someone is not living as a woman (thought they might feel like one) if all of the dressing and makeup and so on goes on in private, or away from the public eye. Jordan is out, identifying in public as a woman, in everything she does.
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For the record, the official rules for Miss England eligibility are that:
"each contestant... shall be a person... who usually uses the prefix Miss (or equivalent) before their name." That is all that the T&Cs have to say about the matter. The dots merely represent other rules rather than anything else on the matter of gender, which can be confirmed at the official website www.missengland.info
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For the record, the official rules for Miss England eligibility are that:
"each contestant... shall be a person... who usually uses the prefix Miss (or equivalent) before their name." That is all that the T&Cs have to say about the matter. The dots merely represent other rules rather than anything else on the matter of gender, which can be confirmed at the official website www.missengland.info
