Victoria Kjaer Theilvig of Denmark was topped Miss Universe 2024 on Saturday, and avid watchers of the competitors are already utilizing the event to sarcastically have a good time the winner being a organic lady following the pageant’s choice allowing transgender ladies to take part. The 21-year-old turned the primary Danish lady to win the dazzling occasion, held in Mexico Metropolis. She beat 120 different contestants in a extra conventional competitors than 2023 that featured plus-size, married, and transgender ladies.
Final 12 months noticed a transgender lady from Portugal place within the prime 20. Months earlier than the 2023 competitors, 22-year-old Rikkie Valerie Kolle turned the primary transgender to be topped Miss Netherlands.
This 12 months’s competitors was, nonetheless, extra conventional, regardless of the pageant lately being purchased by a Thai media mogul Anne Jakapong Jakrajutatip, a transgender lady and avid supporter of trans rights. Previous to the competitors, many believed it could be no completely different than earlier years. Nevertheless, after Victoria Kjaer Theilvig’s victory, many social media customers joked that they have been shocked to see a non-transgender win the competitors.
“BREAKING: Followers shocked after straight, white, organic lady wins Miss Universe 2024,’ wrote common political commentator Matt Wallace, per Day by day Mail. “The tides are turning the woke virus is on the run. Maintain the road,” stated one other social media person.
“Sure an precise white organic feminine received the pageant – the World is therapeutic,” one person posted on X. “Oh look! A lady received Miss Universe this 12 months!” one other X person commented.
Even billionaire Elon Musk joked in regards to the pageant, posting a caption-less meme. “Breaking: web surprised after a gorgeous organic feminine human of wholesome weight wins Miss Universe pageant,” the image learn.
In 2023, the pageant up to date its tips to advertise “social inclusion”. Nevertheless, the transfer sparked an enormous backlash on-line and even noticed former Miss Universe winners resigning their titles in protest. High executives of the competitors have been additionally caught between a rock and a tough place after a dialog about how ladies from nontraditional backgrounds merely “can’t win” the pageant.
Notably, Angela Ponce, the primary trans lady to compete at Miss Universe, paved the way in which a number of years earlier when she turned the primary brazenly trans lady to be topped Miss Spain.