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

Ish66

Enough is Enough, What's next ? Cocaine in the Corner Shop with your batch ? I am totally Outraged ! PS Dont get me going about not going to mass either

Threadbanned posters

Ish66

SouthWesterly

OMM 0000

piplip87

Mad_maxx

BorneTobyWilde

Shilock

Alan Partridge aha

99nsr125.

eskimohunt

km991148

The main takeaway I guess is that you are upset about having small balls?

Atlantic Dawn

Calor Gas Housewife Of The Year needs to comeback.

Ish66

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118364330#Comment_118364330

I dont have balls, I have Pea's

BorneTobyWilde

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118364332#Comment_118364332

I'll get the Minister of Fine Aunts right on it

Who cares? It's a pageant. If a trans person can come out on top, fair play to them.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118364350#Comment_118364350

I hope it’s after the watershed.

JupiterKid

Is nothing sacred any more? 😢😢

On the hand, it might be rather entertaining to watch Panti or RuPaul present the 2022 event...

Atlantic Dawn

It's probably the last Father Ted style thing left in the country. If it was cancelled the only humour left would be The Muff Diving Club.

When something changes so much it eventually loses its raison d'etre - and this move, while PC, is likely a signal its on the way out.

With that said if the Cork rose was bearded, and their gown was a motorbike gang colours ensemble I'd probably think she deserved to win. 😆

Who will be the first to 'helicopter' as their party piece? Well, it is on after the watershed...

Green Peter

The politically correct must be getting sick of getting their own way consistently. Where has the right to be outraged gone. It's actually discriminating against the politically correct by denying them their outrages.

Tell me how

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118364467#Comment_118364467

Where has the right to be outraged gone.

Nowhere. If it had, there'd be about 80% less threads on the CA/IMHO forum.

BingCrosbee

Not true. The stones and the flex have to be removed before you can fill out the entry form.

whisky_galore

Meh. They're picked by county associations closely linked to AOH dinosaurs in the States, a good dollop of wholesome GAA family involvement everywhere of course which are all conservative by their very nature, this is only lip service and free advertising.

They can't lose because outwardly they'll look good and "woke" but know an outsider will likely never get as far as the finals anyway. The numbers of trans people in any population are microscopic so the numbers alone make it unlikely.

Eduard Khil

I'm with you I'm gonna set up my own show with Blackjack and Lusty Wimens in it

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118364502#Comment_118364502

No loss.

Shilock

Every Rose has a thorn...

Dempo1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058224043/now-a-set-of-balls-can-win-rose-of-tralee-wtf

Whilst I've no answers to the perplexing Question or how Dáithí Ó Sé will handle such a new edition (editions) so to speak

I must commend the OP on Thread Name of the year 😁

But personally speaking it's Ludicrous and as too is the actual show, so perhaps ideal 🤔

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118364569#Comment_118364569

And a lovely bottom

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118364523#Comment_118364523

I thought the criteria was 'identifies as a woman'. That requires zero surgery

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118365006#Comment_118365006

it would not be transphobic to vote against them because they were less good than the competition.

it WOULD be transphobic to do so because they’re trans. Rest assured, they don’t have a default win.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118364542#Comment_118364542

You might think, but look at TV presenters in general. There's very few, but you'll still have a Ru Paul that makes it through.

I'd bet there will be at least one in the final within 3 years. And then it's down to the how woke the judges want to be, and they are made up of media lovies and corporate PR machines.

But, it's days will be numbered. Mary won't want to compete against Beyonce formerly known as Noel

Ten of Swords

Not an AH thread at all! Moved to CA

Gregor Samsa

Roses, like all angiosperms (flowering plants), are monoecious, meaning they have both male and female reproductive organs.

This announcement is just a belated correction to a misrepresentation of basic biology.

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118365104#Comment_118365104

RuPaul isn't trans.

maestroamado

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118364449#Comment_118364449

Muff Diving club... i assume that's in Donegal... along the Atlantic way and a wild spot...

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118365122#Comment_118365122

No. They are hardly mainstream.

Atlantic Dawn

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118365123#Comment_118365123

Yes they make a fortune from merchandise...

https://www.muffdivingclub.ie/

Ten of Swords

@Ish66 don't post in this thread again

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118365074#Comment_118365074

They will do what they always do.

Shout loudly and make enough noise and society will buckle and agree with them despite the evidence.

Look what's already happened. Despite what's evident to a blind man we now agree a man is a woman because of how they feel and have laws to support itm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118365169#Comment_118365169

Sounds like you’ve got some preconceived notions.

what did we tell you about having notions??

Mad_maxx

Progressives are such an ambitious bunch

Faugheen

Most remarks showing disgust at this are coming from men who will never be impacted by it whatsoever, again.

Let them at it. The Rose of Tralee as a concept is out-dated anyway.

@Faugheen

This decision is discrimination against biological women.

As with the case of Laurel Hubbard, this position in the competition - whether in the Rose of Tralee or elsewhere - is now being occupied by a biological man.

How is that even remotely justified?

And to the people, such as @Faugheen saying, "Well, what harm is it doing to you?".

What would you say to the biological woman who has missed out in her place in the competition, because that position is now occupied by a biological man?

I wonder what her reaction would be if you said, "Well, what harm is it doing to you, you're not impacted by this in any way?".

As for me, it doesn't harm me at all, but it harms the competition and it harms competition between biological women to now have biological men entering the competition.

Ten of Swords

Mod - Really, we're doing this again?

And you can be sure he will win it as it would be, homophobic of the jury not to allow him win just because it would be.

@SouthWesterly do not post in this thread again

Sonics2k

I have a genuine theory about people who upset about this, and it doesn't reflect on all of them, but probably quite a few.

I suspect that they're the type who got really angry when they rubbed one out to some girls pictures on reddit or something, just to think afterwards that they never actually saw the vagina. With that they go into a testosterone induced rage that they rubbed one out to a girl who has/had a bigger dick than them and how bad this makes them feel.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118365253#Comment_118365253

I’m actually wheezing laughing at this rn omg

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118365198#Comment_118365198

This argument I don't understand.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118365198#Comment_118365198

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

Sonics2k

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118365260#Comment_118365260

Tell me I'm wrong! I am so willing to bet this has happened a lot.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118365263#Comment_118365263

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

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118365271#Comment_118365271

Sorry, poor choice of words on my part. I think that position is balderdash.

It's not the same as athletics where male characteristics will be an advantage.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118365269#Comment_118365269

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~~

BlackEdelweiss

At least Miss World reintroduced the swimwear round, all hope is not lost!

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118365267#Comment_118365267

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.

The Raging Bile Duct

They said they always accepted applicants from trans women, they just never publicised it before. I think that was so Roscommon women could enter it - it can be hard to tell with that lot.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118365271#Comment_118365271

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.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118365397#Comment_118365397

Things do change, you're right - sometimes for the better but also sometimes for the worse. This case is an example of the latter.

Whether it's outdated is neither here nor there; it's what the competitors, organisers, and interested viewers think that matter. It's not relevant.

As for the comparison with same-sex couples on Strictly, that's another example of regression because men and women weren't put together on dance floors because of sexual attraction. In fact, in many of these cases, the man or woman could have been gay - or even both. Sexual attraction has nothing to do with it. It was inserted for PC reasons, not for dance reasons.

If a woman misses out due to a trans woman getting in ahead of them, that's really not a big deal.

Maybe it is a big deal to the person who has missed out.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118365418#Comment_118365418

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. :)

Mad_maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118365253#Comment_118365253

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118365253#Comment_118365253

Genuine my ar5e

Mad_maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118365267#Comment_118365267

Yes but you're a WOKE fundamentalist.