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Miss Universe will feature two trans contestants for the first time (pageant will air on Sat., 11/18 live from El Salvador)
CNN ^ | 10/13/23 | Christie Choi

Posted on 11/02/2023 2:24:18 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD

This year’s Miss Universe pageant will feature at least two trans women for first time, after 23-year-old flight attendant Marina Machete was last week named Miss Portugal.

Machete will compete for the crown at the 72nd Miss Universe competition in El Salvador this November alongside Rikkie Kollé, who in July became the first transgender winner of Miss Netherlands.

In a video posted to the Portuguese pageant’s YouTube channel ahead of the contest, Machete spoke about trans rights as part of her platform, describing rising levels of “transphobia and intolerance” worldwide as “alarming.” She added that it was “heartwarming” to see the Miss Universe Organization, which changed its rules to allow trans contestants in 2012, being inclusive and “breaking boundaries.”

“As a trans woman I’ve been through many obstacles along the way, but fortunately, and especially with my family, love proved to be stronger than ignorance,” she said in the video.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: missuniverse; trans; transwomen; woke
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

It takes a man to be a woman.


21 posted on 11/02/2023 2:42:31 PM PDT by Tzimisce ( )
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To: Pox

I have Miami Vice, Magnum PI, and Seinfeld.

I don’t always feel like reading.
I have older movies as well.

I guess my main “point” is disgust with current society.


22 posted on 11/02/2023 2:43:05 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

There was a movie in 1969 called The Queen.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-queen-1969

“The 1967 All-America Camp Beauty Pageant. From all over America they came, “each a winner in her own right,” the champions in their local contests, hoping to be named the best drag queen of them all.”

“Andy Warhol passed up an invitation to sit on the panel of judges.”

All male transvestites.


23 posted on 11/02/2023 2:43:09 PM PDT by frank ballenger (“My job is to inform, not to convince.” St. Bernadette Soubirous )
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To: libh8er

Right. Lola will prevail.


24 posted on 11/02/2023 2:44:33 PM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: cymbeline
The babes on the news broadcasts, with their beautiful hair cascading forward over their shoulders, make them obsolete.

I kind of thought they were obsolete. I’m surprised to hear they’re still going.

I remember these pageants being kind of a big deal when I was a kid. But I haven’t heard much about them in a few years.

It figures the lefties are turning them in to freak shows like they do everything they touch.

25 posted on 11/02/2023 2:46:44 PM PDT by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Yeah. I can plunge and clean my toilet that night.


26 posted on 11/02/2023 2:47:54 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: freeandfreezing

“I wonder how the feminists can justify men taking over, and often winning contests that used to be between women.”

The feminist movement was never about women’s rights. I think Rush pointed that out several times. I was hoping those two clowns that took over Rush’s time slot would pick of the slack and fill his shoes. Never happened. Sometimes I wonder if they are leftists themselves.


27 posted on 11/02/2023 2:52:09 PM PDT by redfreedom (Joseph Stalin: "It does not mater how anyone votes, how votes are counted is what matters.")
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To: Allegra

“But I haven’t heard much about them in a few years.”

They’ve faded since the promotion of ladylike, clean cut femininity has become unacceptable.


28 posted on 11/02/2023 2:52:10 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Was not Gaza available for this event?


29 posted on 11/02/2023 2:52:52 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Paging Water-Ski Fonzie.


30 posted on 11/02/2023 2:53:48 PM PDT by sevlex
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To: libh8er

Yep. Exactly


31 posted on 11/02/2023 2:56:01 PM PDT by TermLimits4All ("If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything.")
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To: unixfox

You are right the real women are the ones who must stop this BS. It should note fall on them but it has.


32 posted on 11/02/2023 2:56:10 PM PDT by gibsonguy ( )
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD
Two words.

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Bud

Light

33 posted on 11/02/2023 2:57:39 PM PDT by gitmo
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

That I don’t have problems with. It’s not physical contest


34 posted on 11/02/2023 2:58:54 PM PDT by Lee25 ( )
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD


REVENGE OF THE SNAGGLETOOTHED MAN-GIRL BEAUTY QUEENS

was, coincidentally, one of my favorite camp horror movies from the early 60s.


35 posted on 11/02/2023 2:59:11 PM PDT by golux
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To: rovenstinez

Neil Patrick Harris, Paul Shaffer, James Corden and Jim Parsons will be added to the panel of judges. Back the Bulge will be the theme of this exciting competition.


36 posted on 11/02/2023 3:00:49 PM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Anyone who stoops to watch such trash should be ashamed of themselves.


37 posted on 11/02/2023 3:01:34 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

38 posted on 11/02/2023 3:03:47 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Tzimisce

It’s like they say, this competition is no longer a beauty contest.
If you judge beauty, no must be one of those low-down, rotten Neanderthal HETEROSEXUALS.


39 posted on 11/02/2023 3:05:31 PM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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To: Angelino97

A bevy of beauties! Just like in Victoria’s Secret.


40 posted on 11/02/2023 3:08:01 PM PDT by alstewartfan ("She looks like she's 19 years old, sitting there like a lady with her legs crossed." Creepy Joe)
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