The participants of the Miss Italia 2019 competition are presented on September 06, 2019 in Jesolo, Italy.Stefano Mazzola / Getty Images Contributor In July, the Miss Italy pageant banned ...

held every year by Wodaabe men and an all-female panel (SOUNDBITE) (French) 22-YEAR-OLD WODAABE BEAUTY CONTEST PARTICIPANT, BEJI, SAYING:"Now we are going to the Gerewol, to show our beauty, Gerewol ...

More than 100 transgender men have entered the Miss Italy pageant this week, according to an activist leading a protest against recent comments by the pageant's organizer, who said trans women ...

An activist from Italy says more than 100 trans men have entered the Miss Italy pageant in protest of its new policy requiring entrants to be "a woman from birth" The policy came on the heels of a ...

After representatives for the Miss Italy pageant said that transgender women could not participate in the competition, transgender men registered for the pageant en masse to protest. In mid-July, ...