US appeals court: Beauty pageant can bar trans contestants A federal appellate court on Wednesday said a national beauty pageant has a First Amendment right to exclude a transgender woman.

The pageant has several requirements for contestants, including some based on contestants' age, marital status and gender identity.

A federal appeals court Wednesday ruled that beauty pageants can't be forced to accept transgender contestants, citing First Amendment expression considerations.

Free Speech Beauty Pageants Have First Amendment Right to Limit Contestants to "Natural Born Females": No Rehearing En Banc The Ninth Circuit has just decided not to rehear this case, so the panel ...

In Green v. Miss United States of America LLC, the Ninth Circuit decided that a beauty pageant operator has the right to limit contestants to “natural born females.” Anita Green, who self ...

A fresh idea in Charlotte aims to shine a spotlight on the natural beauty of young ladies during the Miss All Natural Pageant. The program organizers want to shift the focus from exterior good ...

Chandler Foreman, who is Miss Texas, played a Diana Ross medley on her flute while wearing her hair in a natural Afro style. Foreman has been celebrating her natural hair throughout her reign as ...

Anita Noelle Green is the current title holder of Miss Earth Elite Oregon and a 2018 Miss Montana contestant. She’s also transgender, being the third openly transgender woman ever to compete in ...

A Morgantown native is competing in the Miss America pageant this week and says she’s doing “everything completely natural.” ...

As the district court explained, the Pageant's decision to limit contestants to "natural born female [s]" undoubtedly conveys that message, because: ...