The Miss Universe competition in El Salvador will feature two transgender contestants following transgender Marina Machete’s claim to the Miss Portugal title.
“Proud to be the first trans woman to compete for the Miss Universe Portugal title!” Machete posted.
“For many years I wasn’t eligible to compete and now it’s such an honor to be a part of this incredible group of candidates!” (Trending: Major Women’s Race Won By Two Men)
#MissUniverse2023 will feature at least two transwoman contestants for the first time in history.
At the 72nd Miss Universe competition, Marina Machete( Miss Portugal) and Rikkie Kollé( Miss Netherlands) will compete alongside other contestants.
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— Komal Sadvilkar (@SadvilkarKomal) October 15, 2023
Machete will compete alongside transgender Rikkie Valerie Kollé of the Netherlands.
“We’re counting down to @missuniverse 2023,” Machete’s post read. “El Salvador, see you soon!”
“They [critics] see us as monsters, and my daily DMs are full of people wishing me dead,” Kollé stated. “Wishing me dead and telling me to [commit] suicide, those things are terrible to write, but at the same it’s only lifting me up because I get a bigger platform than I could ever dream of.”
The Miss Italy pageant has been praised by conservatives globally, however, after banning biological males from taking part in their competition.
“Since it was born, my competition has foreseen in its regulation the clarification according to which one must be a woman from birth,” Miss Italy Official Patron Patrizia Mirigliani stated.
“Probably because, even then, it was foreseen that beauty could undergo modifications, or that women could undergo modifications, or that men could become women,” she continued.
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