ROME, Italy (TND) — Italian beauty pageant Miss Italy will bar transgender entrants from its competition, Italian news outlet Il Primato Naziomale reported Tuesday. Official Patron Patrizia Mirigliani ...

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.

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 ...