Beauty pageant organization Miss United States of America LLC cannot be forced to allow biological males who identify as transgender women to compete, an federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that allowing transgender people to compete in the pageant would interfere with its ability to show “the ideal vision of American womanhood,” according to a report from Reuters.
The lawsuit was brought forth by Anita Green, a transgender rights activist, who reportedly claimed that the pageant’s policy of only allowing “natural born women” violates an anti-discrimination law based on gender identity in Oregon.
The judges said that the Oregon law, if applied to the pageant, would violate the organization’s free speech rights under the U.S. Constitution. The court agreed with the pageant that it “expresses its views on womanhood by determining who can compete,” Reuters noted in its report.
“It is commonly understood that beauty pageants are generally designed to express the ‘ideal vision of American womanhood,'” Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke wrote in the opinion. VanDyke is an appointee of former President Donald Trump.
VanDyke was joined by Circuit Judge Carlos Bea, who is an appointee for former President George W. Bush. Judge Susan Graber wrote the dissenting opinion. She was appointed by former President Bill Clinton.
Late last month, a Thai business tycoon who is a biological male that identifies as a woman purchased the Miss Universe pageant organization for $20 million, as Townhall covered. Chakrapong “Anne” Chakrajutathib’s company issued a statement announcing the change and said that it is the first time the Miss Universe organization “will be owned by a woman.”
In 2021, a transgender person named Kataluna Enriquez made headlines after being crowned Miss Nevada USA, the first transgender “woman” to do so. Enriquez defeated 21 other biological women for the spot, according to NPR, and was allowed to compete in the upcoming Miss USA pageant that year. Once Miss USA is crowned, they go on to compete in Miss Universe. Enriquez did not end up winning the following competition and complained about facing “discrimination” at beauty pageants because they were not assigned a female roommate.
This is wonderful news, but in a saner time, this discussion would never happen. We are SO far gone, and it took only a few decades of inattention and – as Paul Craig Roberts is so fond of saying – insouciance.
Dial back the state to the Articles of Confederation, and then, burn that, too. Free trade plus 100% property rights and no institutional power structure. Every person a sovereign nation of one. Voluntary interaction. NO exceptions.
Unfortunately we (the like minded) are needing some form of a national armed force to repel invaders from all quarters. Sorry, just a concrete objective pragmatic historical fact. If I/We don’t someone else e.g._____________________________ will take advantage of my personal sovereignity with utensils of ultra-violence, so a collective armed force is foundational to a “safe” space” of one’s own people.
Auntie needs and wants the most excellent of armed forces to deter all aggressors and enemies. And sometimes the armed forces can rise to the occasion and even save a people, country and nation.
Auntie invites you to fill in the blank for your favourite villian(s).
Fabulous that the pageant has a right to do something to protect the beautiful ladies. More sequins girls!
(Standing by for the amusant LBGTQPIBN+ circus to begin Hah)
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Can you imagine this calliope ‘s genius technology!
Now, what qualifies as a utensil of ultra-violence?
I just want to make sure I own at least ten of them!!!
The general population agrees with this ruling but is afraid to say it in fear of being “canceled”. Maybe this will change after 11/8.
Uh oh, they put “woman” in quotation marks for a man who pretends to be a woman. What has the world come to? /s
I cannot believe we are even having this conversation. This shit all needs to end in a pile of rubble.
“Sure enough is a bizarre sight in the middle of this shit…”
Beauty pageants were always degenerate feminist garbage.
Is that why feminists have always embraced and championed pageants of coy, naked girls, indulging men’s wishes, instead of bemoaning competition between women for men’s attention and favors, based on their . . . uh, ASSets?
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Pageants are anti-feminism and totally feminine. The sexes are on display to and for each other, in the never-ending game of reproductive choice, aka eugenics. Feminism attempts to upend that natural state of affairs, to favor the less-attractive and sociopathic ambitious narcissistic women.
“Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.” ― H.L. Mencken
I think you misunderstand the dynamics of the sexes and the weaponization of sex. Whore pageants are feminist because they pervert natural sex roles. It encourages women to use all the power of sexual attraction with none of the consequences.
When I was a “Radio personality” decades ago I once judged the “Miss Santa Barbara County” beauty pageant. The women pandered to the judges, trying to score points, but although I was a horn dog back then, it really turned me off. Sorta like judging cattle.
Selling a return to normalcy with swastikas (especially the modern subversion of their ancient meaning) might not help the cause much.
Men dressing as women are still men, got that. There is no f****** discussion needed.
Uterus is a social construct.
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