The Miss Italy competition will not allow transgender women to compete, with its patron saying that contestants "must be a woman from birth," weeks after Miss Netherlands crowned its first transgender ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Organizers of Miss Italy have defended their ban on transgender contestants after the entrepreneur behind the competition appeared ...

The Miss Italy pageant will continue to only accept biological women in its competition ahead of Miss Universe. Official Patron of the pageant, Patrizia Mirigliani, referred to the recent acceptance ...

While some countries are pushing human rights forward, Italy has decided to take a step back in the area of trans rights. The Miss Italy pageant has announced that it will not allow trans women to ...

The Miss Italy beauty pageant has announced that it will not allow transgender competitors, and all entrants must be "a woman from birth." "Since it was born, my competition has foreseen in its ...

An activist from Italy says more than 100 trans men have entered the Miss Italy pageant in protest of its new policy requiring entrants to be "a woman from birth" The policy came on the heels of a ...

More than 100 transgender men have entered the Miss Italy pageant this week, according to an activist leading a protest against recent comments by the pageant’s organizer, who said trans women ...

The trans woman who was crowned Miss Netherlands says it is "so sad" to see the Miss Italy competition ban transgender contestants. Rikkie Valerie Kollé, 22, won the "Miss Nederland" competition in ...

Organizers of Miss Italy have defended their ban on transgender contestants after the entrepreneur behind the competition appeared to criticize other beauty pageants’ efforts to welcome trans women.