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Transgender actor Elliot Page spoke of their awkward physical experience of adolescence. Photo: Richard Bord
Eilis O'Hanlon
The sexist beauty pageants of old now look like pitiful relics of a less-enlightened past. These days, thank goodness, there’s Love Island, the 10th season of which is set to start this week. That offers viewers a far broader and more representative range of real women.
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