Federal Judge Rules 'Miss' Pageant Can Ban Transgender Competitors - VladTV

Federal Judge Rules 'Miss' Pageant Can Ban Transgender Competitors - VladTV
By: beauty contest Posted On: March 02, 2021 View: 1374

Federal Judge Rules 'Miss' Pageant Can Ban Transgender Competitors - VladTV

A federal judge in Oregon dismissed a transgender woman's lawsuit against the United States of America Miss Pageant. The contest is allowed to uphold its rule of only permitting "natural born females" in its pageant.

Anita Green launched a discrimination lawsuit against the United States of America Pageants. However, it was dismissed after U.S. District Court Judge Michael Mosman ruled in favor of the privately run organization.

The 29-year-old was disappointed in the ruling but remained optimistic due to the attention her lawsuit generated.

"This case brought awareness to an issue many people were and still are unaware of and that issue is that discrimination against transgender people is still actively happening in the private and public sector even within the pageant circuit," Green said in a statement.

John T. Kaempf, the attorney for United States of America Pageants, cosigned the ruling but emphasized his client was not transphobic.

"My client is not anti-transgender, but it just wants to be able to hold a pageant that is only for biological females," Kaempt said. "Contrary to what people might think, my client, the pageant, is a supporter of diversity. It believes there can be a Miss Black USA pageant, a Miss Native American pageant, or a transgender pageant."

Green has competed in previous female beauty pageants in recent years and won the title of Miss Earth Elite Oregon in 2019. In 2018, the Oregon native made history as the first transgender woman to compete in the Miss Montana USA pageant. Two years prior, she became the first openly transgender person elected as a national delegate to a nominating convention. 

Anita Green came out as transgender when she was 17 and has been living as Anita since turning 19.

Judge Mosman's ruling came on the same day that the Democratic-led House passed the LGBTQ Equality Act, which would enshrine LGBTQ protections in the country's labor and civil rights laws. While the legislation passed in the House, it faces an uphill battle in the Senate.

Source: Daily Mail

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