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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The organizer of the Miss Italy pageant said contestants must be a "woman from birth." It comes just weeks after a transgender ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Miss Italy competition will not allow transgender women to compete, ...

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.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The trans woman who was crowned Miss Netherlands says it is "so sad" to ...

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A representative of the Miss Italy beauty pageant said contestants must be "woman from birth," just weeks after Rikkie Kollé made history as the first transgender woman to be crowned Miss Netherlands.