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 ...

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 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 ...