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5:22Now PlayingA beauty pageant for Miss Italy gets hit with brilliant protest after bigoted new rule and comments by the main patron instantly backfire. John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson break it down on The Damage Report.
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Italian beauty pageant's antitrans rule backfires after more than 100 trans men sign up in protest
"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, Patrizia Mirigliani, the pageant's patron, told Italian station Radio Cusano she thought inclusivity for transgender women in pageants was "a bit absurd," and said she would not "jump on the glittery bandwagon of trans activism." Her comments were made after a transgender woman, Rikkie Valerie Kollé, won the Miss Netherlands contest for the first time.
Mirigliani added, "ever since it was born, my contest has included in its regulations the specification that one must be a woman from birth.""
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