Miss Italia refuses trans women in competition
26 Jul 2023
Countries
Political trend
Rights at stake and state’s obligations
The actor of the backlash
Patrizia Mirigliani, patron of the Miss Italia competition, reiterated that there will be no opening to the participation of transgender people in the beauty contest, as contestants “must be born women”. Trans activist Vladimir Luxuria described this decision as “out of time”.
See: Repubblica