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“Growing up, I was often told that I was not allowed to be myself, or to be in spaces that I was not welcome,” she said during the competition’s Q&A portion.

The pageant says it’s “not anti-transgender” but “just wants to be able to hold a pageant that is only for biological females.”

Before her murder, activist Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien had “almost single-handedly created the community” for trans people in the Northeast U.S.

Anita Green has filed a lawsuit against the United States of America Pageants in federal court for being excluded from participating.

The author, activist and former talk show host is the first out transgender judge in pageant history.

Organizers asked those present not to post anything on social media during the contest for fear of discovery and violence.

28 women competed last weekend to be crowned Miss Trans Star International, Europe’s largest beauty pageant for transgender women.