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 ...

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 a pageant representative said transgender women could not compete in the Miss Italy contest, more than 100 transgender men signed up, following the lead of Federico Barbarossa who turned the ...

In July, the Miss Italy pageant banned non-"biological women" from competing. To protest, dozens of transgender men signed up for the contest to reveal the rule's hypocrisy. Trans activist Federico ...