The cruelty of a trans beauty queen

BeKind is one of the Great Icks – to use the vivid word so beloved of Love Islanders – of our age. It’s a form of brainwashing which is particularly insidious as it’s generally applied to females, starting out in childhood when numerous items of BE KIND clothing can be found in the girls’ section of shops but not in the boys’. (Note to clothing manufacturers and retailers; it’s not girls who need reminding to be kind, judging from the violent crime stats.) As well as a conditioning process for female children, it’s a shaming mechanism for adult human females regularly used by the trans lobby to reward women who give up their rights – and to rebuke women who don’t. Everything from single-sex toilets to sporting trophies must be sacrificed on the #BeKind bonfire – and now beauty pageants are being thrown upon the conflagration.

Though lying is a quick fix for not hurting people’s feelings, it does the tiny minority of our fellow citizens who suffer from body dysmorphia no good at all in the long run

Contests in which women are judged solely on the way they look may not appear to be something any self-respecting rad-fem should be defending.