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Dutch trans woman Rikkie Kollé won the national pageant in the Netherlands, but fellow Europeans Italy have banned transgender participants from the competition.
Miss Italy pageant has prohibited all transgender women from entering and competing in the beauty competition.
Miss Italy has banned transgender women from competing in their pageant just because other contests around the world are allowing it.
Italian beauty pageant Miss Italy has banned biological males from entering its competition. Patrizia Mirigliani, who oversees the nation's beauty pageant, said "only women since birth" are welcome to compete while she is in charge of the event.
Patrizia Mirigliani said pageant contestants must be a "woman from birth" in a statement to local media, Newsweek reported.