Posted on 11/03/2022 8:31:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Miss United States of America (USOA) pageant has a rule that only natural women are allowed to compete. But when “Anita” Green’s application for the pageant was denied and his funds reimbursed, he sued the pageant.
While other pageants, such as the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants, have allowed biological males who “identify” as women to compete against real women, the Miss USOA pageant specifically requires that contestants are natural-born females.
The pageant argued that it has a First Amendment right to free association, and allowing males who identify as transgender women would “undermine its vision” of “empowering only biological women.”
His lawsuit was dismissed last year, but Green persisted. Now, his latest effort to force himself into the women’s pageant has been denied. On Wednesday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the lower court’s prior ruling and sided with the pageant, again on First Amendment grounds. “The district court held that the First Amendment protected the Pageant’s expressive association rights to exclude a person who would impact the group’s ability to express its views,” the opinion summary explains. “The panel agreed that summary judgment for the Pageant was correct, but reached this conclusion not under the First Amendment’s protection of freedom of association but rather under the First Amendment’s protection against compelled speech.”
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The panel held that the First Amendment, which ensures that “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech,” extends its protections to theatrical productions. Beauty pageants fall comfortably within this ambit. The panel noted that it is commonly understood that beauty pageants are generally designed to express the “ideal vision of American womanhood.” The panel held that the Pageant’s message cannot be divorced from the Pageant’s selection and evaluation of contestants. The Pageant would not be able to communicate “the celebration of biological women” if it were forced to allow Green to participate. The First Amendment affords the Pageant the ability to voice this message and to enforce its “natural born female” rule.
Might they actually uphold the Second Amendment protections of the right to keep and bear arms?
Take that, gender deceivers.
Well...that’s shocking.
Something like Natural Born Citizen.
If they allow men to compete for miss whatever, then soon they will have to institute affirmative action programs and lower standards so biological women have a chance to win
NOTE...the mannish, overly dramatic, Admiral Levine-looking individual wearing the rainbow ribbon on their neck...is Carole King...not another trans-whatever. I could be wrong.
BARRY BARF ALERT...Obama is in this video...shedding tears.
God help us.
Hopefully, the SC denies the appeal!
It’s the Ninth circuit. Thus, the reasoning had to be males and make believe genders can be excluded if there are not enough bathrooms to accomodate them thus creating inhumane conditions for them
Dang! This ruins my only chance to be in a beauty pageant.
Beauty pageants are a threat to democracy.
the 9th circuit is not your old 9th circuit because Trump got to appoint so many judges to this court that underwent a high turnover during his term.
You know America is taking its last breath when we start arguing over whether or not men can be Miss America. This country definitely needs to start culling the heard. A lot of these cattle are a waste of oxygen and grass burgers.
How quaint.
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You make me feel
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You make me feel like a natural BORN woman (woman)
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“....and allowing males who identify as transgender women would “undermine its vision” of “empowering only biological women.”
..and allowing men to compete in women’s sports also undermines ‘empowering only biological women”.
RE: Hopefully, the SC denies the appeal!
Errr… we already have one Justice named Ketanji who tells us she doesn’t know what a woman is because she’s not a biologist. Several more justices like her and this country’s screwed bigly.
Train wreck in either “gender”
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