Miss Italy Beauty Pageant Won't Allow Transgender Competitors: Must Be Woman 'From Birth'

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 winner.

"Lately, beauty contests have been trying to make the news by also using strategies that I think are a bit absurd," Miss Italy Official Patron Patrizia Mirigliani said this month during an interview with Radio Cusano, Il Primato Nazionale reported, according to a translation from Google.

"Since it was born, my competition has foreseen in its regulation the clarification according to which one must be a woman from birth. Probably because, even then, it was foreseen that beauty could undergo modifications, or that women could undergo modifications, or that men could become women," Mirigliani added, Il Primato Nazionale reported.

Newsweek reached out to the Miss Italy contest press office via email for further comment.

Polling suggests support for transgender rights in Italy is generally comparable to that in other Western nations. In 2016, the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute conducted a poll in 23 countries, including in Italy, to gauge worldwide support for transgender individuals. A majority in 21 of those countries, including Italy, "support policies banning discrimination against transgender people."

Additionally, the poll created a scale to gauge the average level of support for transgender rights among different countries. It found that Russia ranked the lowest, at 41 out of 100, while Spain ranked the highest, at 74. Italy ranked at 57.

A crude reply would be to ask them to drop there pants and look for surgical intervention or if there is any junk below. A polite reply would be ask for a blood test and if you are xx you are a woman. If you are xy you are a man despite hormone and surgical alterations. It is really that simple.

Political correctness is a form of insanity well defined by George Orwell in 1984. One must have two opposing truths and believe both at the same time though one is not the truth.

Orwell was a sage. I read his works as a young man and thought it great “science fiction.” His words in 1984 were not science fiction but a warning. He knew! He wrote another book that few read. It is “Letters from Catalonia.” It was about his time in Spain fighting for the Republicans which were the communists. In this book he revealed the dark underbelly of communism. He was wounded but oddly by other factions of the Marxists. They fought each other also for supremacy. He returned to England and wrote his great works. When he returned he was a libertarian socialist and no longer a Marxist.

In his dying days he went to the Isle of Jura off the Scottish Coast and wrote his greatest novel, 1984. It was a fitting place for this. The Isle of Jura is lovely in the brief summer and brutal in the winter. When finished he returned to London and his great novel was printed. He was dying and knew his time was brief. He had tuberculosis and in his time we did not have the cure.

He was a Sage.

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