What’s Current: Trans-identified male wins Miss America pageant in New Hampshire

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  • A trans-identified male named Brían Nguyen has become the first male titleholder within the Miss America Organization after being crowned Miss Greater Derry 2023 in a beauty pageant in New Hampshire.
  • Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will appear on the new season of Canada’s Drag Race.
  • The predatorial man previously known as Jonathan Yaniv, then Jessica Yaniv, and now Jessica Simpson lost his recent bid to be a vice-president on the Simon Fraser University student union. Yaniv’s platform included advocating for an “increased permanent hiring of Black, Indigenous, Transgender, and other underrepresented communities Counsellors” at the university’s health and councilling services.
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Meghan Murphy is a freelance writer and journalist from Vancouver, BC. She has been podcasting and writing about feminism since 2010 and has published work in numerous national and international publications, including The Spectator, UnHerd, Quillette, the CBC, New Statesman, Vice, Al Jazeera, The Globe and Mail, and more. Meghan completed a Masters degree in the department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University in 2012 and is now exiled in Mexico with her very photogenic dog.