The ideal vision of American womanhood
Why would a beauty pageant, i.e. a Prettiest Woman contest, let a man compete in the first place? It’s a stupid concept, but it at least has a basic outline, or did until the other day. Even the law agrees.
[Brian] Nguyen’s win came just days after a San Francisco Court ruled that women’s beauty pageants were not legally obligated to let trans-identified males
tocompete.The case had been brought to court after a trans activist, Anita Green, filed a lawsuit against Miss United States of America after they barred him from competing in 2019. In their decision, the judges in the case said that forcing pageants to include “transgender” contestants amounted to compelled speech as beauty pageants aim to “to express the ideal vision” of American womanhood.
“The First Amendment affords the Pageant the ability to voice this message, and to enforce its ‘natural-born female rule,” stated the court.
Of course the “ideal vision” of womanhood is insulting and belittling, but that’s a separate issue.
Brian Nguyen of course sees it differently.
I guess it is finally time to introduce myself!
My name is Brían Nguyen, I am 19 years old, and I am currently a freshman at Nashua Community College majoring in Business Management. I hope to use my degree so that I can create sustainable, ethical, and inclusive products such as clothing, cosmetics, and accessories. I also hope to continue to grow my career in the modeling and social media industry.
My Social Impact Initiative is #QueensAreEverywhere. This is a media movement that helps the next generation develop self-confidence, realize their potential, and become the leaders of their destiny. This is done by spotlighting members of the community that have faced adversity and teach how they overcame it. I am excited to continue growing this project and expanding it into in-person events and appearances.
I am ecstatic to be the FIRST transgender woman to be a Miss America local titleholder, and I hope to make everyone proud and become the first to walk the Miss America stage.
I am Brían Nguyen, your Miss Greater Derry 2023, and I am so excited for my year of service, to compete for Miss New Hampshire in April, and to make you all proud
There are some questions behind all this. What was the process? There was at least one contest before this one, to select the top picks, right? And some kind of filtering process before that? Not all hopefuls get to compete, because there would be too many of them, yes? So I’m wondering how that worked. I’m wondering how the filter worked that let the very slight slender delicate girls with one bent leg through and also let the very hefty bulky undelicate boy with two straight legs through. In other words there’s a mismatch, so what was the process? I’m curious to know, but I don’t suppose we ever will.
Another question is how Brian Nguyen explained it all to himself. Is it just a cynical move to get a 7500k scholarship? Or is it…no, I can’t think of anything else it could be.
Brian (what, no pseudonym?) should enjoy this as much as he can now, because the Miss New Hampshire and Miss America pageants probably won’t be judged by a few wokesters from a podunk community college.
Gender critical women were saying from the start that monetary incentives would be eagerly grabbed-at by men like this. It certainly hasn’t surprised those of us who have been watching.
Stay tuned for government incentives like small business loans for women to be gobbled up in a similar fashion.
My guess is that the real prize for Brian is VALIDATION, and the scholarship is just icing on the cake.
Perhaps, but to paraphrase one of the Rules of Acquisition, validation and a scholarship is worth the scholarship.
Jessica Yaniv wanted to enter a beauty pageant.
I spent a couple minutes googling, and Miss Greater Derry seems to be a very small-time contest. It’s some group that runs a runs weekly bingo games and poker tournaments and uses the money earned to fund the prize for the Miss Derry contest. Kind of funny to see the mechanics of it (“funded by bingo games” wouldn’t have been my first guess).
There’s brief video here:
https://thepostmillennial.com/miss-greater-derry-biological-male-teen-wins-miss-america-in-beauty-pageant-nh
The fellow contestants look as thrilled as the winner when the announcement is made. I’d guess it’s a bunch of wokesters super proud of themselves for “making history” and “breaking down barriers”.
Probably won’t go anywhere, but who knows, maybe nobody will be able to vote against a transgender woman and he will be the new Miss America. I guess it would get them a little attention anyway (it’s hard to believe that contest used to pull down big numbers on network TV and people would actually know the name of the current Miss America).
I think the small-time aspect is pretty self-evident – I thought at first it was a contest in Ireland, having never heard of a New Hampshire Derry. It’s The Principle Of The Thing.
Having lived in the area, I’m aware of Derry NH, and may even have been there sometime.
Re pageant contestants being thrilled at the winner: I think it is a strict rule at these pageants that the other contestants must look thrilled at the winner, and failing to do so will be a mark against you for the future. Looking thrilled at this contest will be practice for looking thrilled at other contests.