To contribute my own corpse to the hill, the section of the rule specifically discussing bestiality existed long before the current administration. Their updating of the rules to be less absolute probably should have dropped the explicit callout entirely (because uh… guys, how often does that come up that it needs to be specified?? (real answer is that it’s an artifact from bestiality laws not being uniformly codified - which it still isn’t. for example, It was only made mostly illegal in Canada in 2019)) but it’s important context that this rule change wasn’t done in a vacuum, it was a pretty wide reduction in automatic disqualifications and this was among them.
It really does seem like this is just a flashy but bullshit distraction from all the other, much more heinous shit that’s going on.
To contribute my own corpse to the hill, the section of the rule specifically discussing bestiality existed long before the current administration. Their updating of the rules to be less absolute probably should have dropped the explicit callout entirely (because uh… guys, how often does that come up that it needs to be specified?? (real answer is that it’s an artifact from bestiality laws not being uniformly codified - which it still isn’t. for example, It was only made mostly illegal in Canada in 2019)) but it’s important context that this rule change wasn’t done in a vacuum, it was a pretty wide reduction in automatic disqualifications and this was among them.
It really does seem like this is just a flashy but bullshit distraction from all the other, much more heinous shit that’s going on.