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.

The participants of the Miss Italia 2019 competition are presented on September 06, 2019 in Jesolo, Italy.Stefano Mazzola / Getty Images Contributor In July, the Miss Italy pageant banned ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

Transgender men are protesting Miss Italy’s ban on trans women competing by entering the pageant themselves. The protest comes after comments made by Miss Italy’s official patron Patrizia Mirigliani ...