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
. “Lately, beauty contests have been trying to make the news by … using strategies that in my opinion are a bit absurd,” the pageant’s official patron, Patrizia Mirigliani, said in a recent radio interview. “Since it was founded, my contest has stipulated in its regulation … must be a woman from birth.
In response to the comments, Federico Barbarossa, a member of the Italian nonprofit association Mixed LGBTQIA, said via Instagram that he had successfully entered the pageant because — as a trans man assigned female at birth — he met the pageant’s entry requirements. “When I heard about the absurd regulation, it came spontaneously to me!” read a statement posted to Mixed LGBTQIA’s Instagram account alongside what appeared to be a screenshot of an acceptance email from Miss Italy.
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