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.

Paola Torrente may have won over the judges during the Miss Italy pageant, where she placed second overall, but she's facing body shaming over her curvy shape on social media. The 22-year-old is a ...

The Miss Italy pageant will continue to only accept biological women in its competition ahead of Miss Universe. Official Patron of the pageant, Patrizia Mirigliani, referred to the recent acceptance ...

The Miss Italy beauty pageant has announced that it will not allow transgender competitors, and all entrants must be "a woman from birth." "Since it was born, my competition has foreseen in its ...

The Miss Italy competition will not allow transgender women to compete, with its patron saying that contestants "must be a woman from birth," weeks after Miss Netherlands crowned its first transgender ...

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 ...

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 ...

Transgender men are protesting Miss Italy’s ban on trans women competing by entering the pageant themselves. The protest comes after comments made by Miss Italy’s official patron Patrizia Mirigliani ...