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100+ Trans Men Signed Up For the Miss Italy Pageant After Trans Woman Were Banned

The pageant's organizer recently said contestants had to be "women from birth."

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By Mey Rude

July 26 2023

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 enter, and in response, over 100 trans men from the country have entered the pageant in protest.

Miss Italy’s organizer, Patrizia Mirigliani, announced the news on Radio Cusano earlier this month. Miss Italy’s current rules exclude trans women, and Mirigliani said that she is not going to update them to jump on the “glittery bandwagon of trans activism.”

“Lately, beauty contests have been trying to make the news by also using strategies that I think are a bit absurd,” Mirigliani said, referencing trans woman Rikkie Valerie Kollé’s recent victory in the Miss Netherlands pageant. She is the first trans woman to win the competition and will be the second trans woman to compete in the MIss Universe competition.

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Trans activist Federico Barbarossa is a trans man in Italy who is using the “biologically born a woman” rule to enter the Miss Italy pageant. And now, over a hundred others have joined him.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

What a great job of activism. Use their own rules against their transphobia.

Another trans man who signed up, Elia Bonci, also spoke to an Italian newspaper about his decision to enter.

“I took courage, used my deadname, and signed up for Miss Italy. Because fighting transphobia is intersectional and even though I’m not a trans woman, I’ve decided to fight for their rights,” he said.

Thank you for having our backs.