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.
Given the time period and how uninformed the author must be on trans issues, I can look past the fact they use male pronouns and her deadname to refer to her pre-transition, a lot of people still get that wrong today.
There is one odd sentence where they use her chosen name but male pronouns. They were talking about her saving up for surgery, so pre-transition, but they otherwise use her deadname when discussing that phase of her life. Just struck me as odd.