Miss Italy Bans Transgender Pageant Contestants, Owner Says ‘You Must Be a Woman From Birth’
The Miss Italia pageant has banned transgender contestants, declaring that to be eligible, you “must be a woman from birth.”
News of the Italian pageant’s stance comes shortly after the Miss Netherlands competition crowned a transgender biological male as their winner — sending him to the 72nd Miss Universe pageant.
In an Italian interview with Radio Cusano, Miss Italy Official Patron Patrizia Mirigliani said, “lately, beauty contests have been trying to make the news by also using strategies that I think are a bit absurd.”
“Since it was born, my competition has foreseen in its regulation the clarification according to which one must be a woman from birth. Probably because, even then, it was foreseen that beauty could undergo modifications,
