Rose Of Tralee now accepting trans applicants (Threadbanned List in OP)

I’m actually wheezing laughing at this rn omg

I'm a woman. A biological woman. I don't care if they let trans women,or even full blown men into the Rose of tralee. Let goats in for all I care! What difference does it make? It's a outdated competition

You don't need to understand it. It's already correct.

I can almost picture it too. I suspect though the rage is very much internal and only becomes apparent on message boards and the likes where they’ll slyly imply that trans people are a big problem and they’re taking over society and ~~I accidentally wanked to one once~~

You're well within your rights to hold that view; that it's an outdated competition. Many people hold that view, and that's fine.

But I'm similarly confident that the participants in the Rose of Tralee competition have a very different opinion, and that opinion matters.

If anything, a trans woman is at a default disadvantage. And honestly, it's a beauty pageant effectively, nobody is guaranteed a position in it and if a woman misses out due to a trans woman getting in ahead of them, that's really not a big deal. Equally a married woman could get in ahead of them because the criteria has changed. Things change. It's no different to how strictly come dancing has changed its criteria, allowing two same sex dancers.(Came second) Things change and in this case for the better in multiple ways....

I do think it's an incredibly outdated contest etc btw.

You've claimed it's regression however they came second in the contest so pretty clearly, audiences and judges thought they were pretty damn good. It's what the competitors, organisers and interested viewers think that matters and they were pretty happy with it.(By your own logic) :) I imagine it's also a big deal for the woman who missed out if she misses out due to a married woman....

But honestly, most women I know of that age wouldn't generally have an issue with allowing trans women to compete. The reality is that in Ireland, women from that age even into their thirties and forties have a pretty positive attitude towards trans women. They wouldn't tend to lose their **** over women competing in the Rose of Tralee. We thankfully have not adopted the viewpoints of the UK on the subject. So being inclusive of trans women is something that women in Ireland generally tend to favour. :)

But why are you assuming that participants would be against this? If I was taking part, I wouldn't care that trans women were involved