Posted on 07/03/2018 9:48:16 AM PDT by simpson96
A Spanish model is set to become the first transgender woman to compete in the Miss Universe pageant.
Angela Ponce was crowned in the countrywide Miss Universe Spain 2018 over the weekend, becoming the first transgender woman to win the title. The 26-year-old beat 22 fellow contestants to claim the top spot in the Spanish city of Tarragona, Pink News reported.
Her win grants Ponce a place to compete in the worldwide Miss Universe contest set to be held in Philippines in December 2018.
Transgender contestants were first allowed to compete in Miss Universe six years ago.
The change was enacted after trans contestant Jenna Talackova was disqualified from Miss Universe Canada when organizers discovered she had transitioned from male to female.
After weeks of discussion, LGBT charity GLAAD later persuaded then-owner Donald Trump to open the competition up to trans contestants. In the 2012 Miss Universe Canada contest Talackova placed 12th place, but won Miss Congeniality.
Ponce wrote in Spanish on Instagram that representing the name and colors of Spain at the Miss Universe contest is a “dream.”
“My goal is to be a spokesperson for a message of inclusion, respect and diversity not only for the LGBTQ+ community, but also for the entire world,” she said.
In 2015, Ponce competed at the rival Miss World Spain contest as the representative for Cadiz, but lost to Miss Barcelona Mireia Lalaguna.
Speaking to Spanish newspaper 20 Minutos in 2015, Ponce said: "Society is not educated for diversity, it's what made me go public, I mean, here I am and I'm not weird, I just have a different story, a woman who came to life differently but I'm a woman."
Ponce revealed she first began to explore her gender identity aged 11, and completed her transition in April 2014.
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The better Q is:
WHAT is “Angela” Ponce?
No, you're not. You are a man who mutilated himself.
And of course Miss America had to be the contest to quit wearing swimsuits...
I pity all those runners up in the first pic. It’s clear that the judges politicized the event.
I would expect women to get annoyed as this continues. The fastest runners in women's sports are men. The woman of the year is a man. Now the "most beautiful woman" in Spain is a man. The runners (above average for men) earned their first place except for the detail of being male. The rest of these winners were chosen just for being male and thus diverse.
So is this a step forward for transsexual people civil rights , or something along those lines?
“the contest to quit wearing swimsuits...”
Makes it easier for those contestants who are “transitioning”, to not have to wear a body-conscious outfit.
Goodbye forever, Miss America pageant. Those days are over. The maniacs won, they destroyed it.
Yeah, told to “smile” or else
Mentally ill man competes in beauty pageant.
I wonder if any of those smiling runners up in the first pic have their fingers crossed?
Has he had the chopitoffame yet? No? Then how does he hide that bulge?
I BEG TO DIFFER!
Misshapen Arms and Man Hands must be the rage nowadays.
Need a name and image change from Miss America/Miss Universe or “miss’ anything as the pageants have morphed into Ru Paul’esque drag queen tranny shows
Check the package. Is IT a fully transitioned, post surgical transsexual being?
More beautiful and womanly than any other woman in Spain!
That isn’t saying much for the women of Spain!!!
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