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.

ROME, Italy (TND) — Italian beauty pageant Miss Italy will bar transgender entrants from its competition, Italian news outlet Il Primato Naziomale reported Tuesday. Official Patron Patrizia Mirigliani ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 organizer of the Miss Italy pageant said contestants must be a "woman from birth." It comes just weeks after a transgender woman was crowned Miss Netherlands for the first time. Patrizia ...

In July, the Miss Italy pageant banned non-"biological women" from competing. To protest, dozens of transgender men signed up for the contest to reveal the rule's hypocrisy. Trans activist Federico ...