"It's Absurd!" - 'Miss Italy' Bans Biological Males From Beauty Pageant

"It's Absurd!" - 'Miss Italy' Bans Biological Males From Beauty Pageant The Miss Italy (Miss Italia) beauty pageant has banned transgender contestants from participating, saying that all entrants must be "a woman from birth." According to Patrizia Mirigliani, the official patron of the competition, this is a longstanding policy. "Ever since it was born, the competition includes in its regulation the clarification that you have to be a woman from birth. Probably because, even then, it was expected that in the future beauty could undergo changes, or that women could...