Over 100 trans men enter Miss Italy in protest of “women from birth” rule
More than 100 trans men have participated in a campaign retaliating against Miss Italy’s ban on trans women competing. Trans activist Federico Barbarossa launched the campaign with the intention of triggering a “reflection on the absurdity” that competitors must be assigned female at birth. “We hope that the gesture will arouse the media clamour needed to put these issues back at the centre, and that many other ‘women at birth’ register en masse for the competition,” he told Italian magazine, Ia Repubblica. “They would reject me because I’m a boy…
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