Got my vote lovely

[life on mars]

https://news.sky.com/story/rikkie-va...-time-12918331

[fugsyphil]

Angela Ponce was an unfortunate name for the first ever transgender competitor later on in the story

[MacAdder]

Congratulations and all that but, looking at the photo, this somehow makes me feel slightly uncomfortable.

At a glance it's wow, what a stunner l.
Then it's a case of, errrm... well I'm not entirely sure what it's a case if.

Maybe somebody knows what's going in and how I am or should be feeling

[Moodybluebird]

It's just so wrong though. What next, a transgender person born a woman becoming the World's Strongest Man. It could happen, so watch this space.

[Divine Wright]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHJhbwEcgrA&t=46s

With some of the dodgy attitudes from poster's on this board, make me wonder whether we are going backwards as a society.

Such a shame these things generate scepticism and pisstaking as opposed to solidarity.

You can say it's a joke but that's what people like Jeremy Clarkson says when he says or does something reprehensible. .......and who wants to be like him.

[Trigger]

Bloody men back to taking over everything again.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHJhbwEcgrA&t=46s

With some of the dodgy attitudes from poster's on this board, make me wonder whether we are going backwards as a society.

Such a shame these things generate scepticism and pisstaking as opposed to solidarity.

You can say it's a joke but that's what people like Jeremy Clarkson says when he says or does something reprehensible. .......and who wants to be like him.

There are sadly people about even today who have a serious problem with sexuality

There was a gay pride march here the other weekend and some of the comments on social media were so stupid it was amusing reading them

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Congratulations and all that but, looking at the photo, this somehow makes me feel slightly uncomfortable.

At a glance it's wow, what a stunner l.
Then it's a case of, errrm... well I'm not entirely sure what it's a case if.

Maybe somebody knows what's going in and how I am or should be feeling

She is far too skinny and scrawny but I am sure other men or women find her attractive

[William Treseder]

A bit of a munter. Competition couldn’t have been up to much.

[cityhammer]

She is far too skinny and scrawny but I am sure other men or women find her attractive

Him.

[MacAdder]

Him.

Or they...

[ToTaL ITK]

Good forbid some of you get kids that choose a LGBT life. You would probably disown them.

[Robin Friday's Ghost]

So long as it doesn't disadvantage cisgender females, which I can't see it does, and the cisgender females don't feel threatened if their changing facilities are shared then I can't see a problem.

[cyril evans awaydays]

I thought that beauty contests like this fizzled out with a slightly leery Michael Aspel in the 80s but it appears they still trundle on. Based on the sky report transgender contestants have been allowed under Trump's ownership of the brand for over a decade.

I might be cynical but a transgender person winning a place in the final so soon after new ownership was trying to breathe new life into the contest probably wasn't coincidental.

Still if it stirred something in loins of an old culture warrior like LoM who am I to decry it?

[Robin Friday's Ghost]

I thought that beauty contests like this fizzled out with a slightly leery Michael Aspel in the 80s but it appears they still trundle on. Based on the sky report transgender contestants have been allowed under Trump's ownership of the brand for over a decade.

I might be cynical but a transgender person winning a place in the final so soon after new ownership was trying to breathe new life into the contest probably wasn't coincidental.

Still if it stirred something in loins of an old culture warrior like LoM who am I to decry it?

It does seem a bit archaic.