U.S. Beauty Pageant Has Constitutional Right to Exclude Transgender Women, Court Rules

by Madeline Leesman

Beauty pageant organization Miss United States of America LLC cannot be forced to allow biological males who identify as transgender women to compete, an federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.

The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that allowing transgender people to compete in the pageant would interfere with its ability to show “the ideal vision of American womanhood,” according to a report from Reuters. Continue reading “U.S. Beauty Pageant Has Constitutional Right to Exclude Transgender Women, Court Rules”