Recently, Miss Philippines won the title of Miss Universe and as expected, the whole country is excited. I personally missed the announcements of Top 20, Top 10, Top 5 and the Q&A portion but I know enough to know that Miss Philippines won the title. What these ladies go through to prepare for the competition is something a man can't fully understand. Or that was the case until quite recently.
Miss Spain, I've come to know, was born male and then "transitioned" to being a woman. I put the quotes on "transitioned" as I think no one can truly transition. Now, Angela Ponce (Miss Spain), has received a lot of criticism and though I may agree with a lot of them, maybe it's time we reevaluate how we approach this issue.
Angela Ponce is an individual and must be treated as such. He believes he was born into the wrong body and is a woman. Fine. A lot of people in the LGBT community will say that he shouldn't get hate for being who he really is and we should all acknowledge that he's a woman and if we don't, that's offensive or hateful.
This is quite problematic. The idea here is that people hate this person for saying he's a woman. When I look at the concerns of some people I know though, they couldn't care less what he thinks. What people care about more is, "Are we really feeding this delusion?" Yes, it's a delusion. I am a 29-year old Filipino man who's 5'8" cm tall. Every part of that sentence tells you something about myself that I cannot change - or what we call immutable characteristics. If one day I announce to my family that I'm a 16-year old Korean girl who's 4'11", the most loving thing that my friends and family could ever do is to snap me out of my delusion. Far from being hurtful, reinforcing the truth back to me would be one of the most loving things those closest to me could ever do. The thing about every single part of the description I gave is that it's all backed by something scientific.
I know I'm 29 years old because I was born in 1989. I know I'm Filipino because I was born to Filipino parents. I know I'm a man because I have a penis and every single cell in my body have XY chromosomes. I know I'm 5'8" because I was born after the meter stick was invented. It really is just that simple.
At the end of the day, Angela Ponce is a man in a dress and sorry to say this but he is misrepresenting women.
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