US appeals court: Beauty pageant can bar trans contestants
This undated photo provided by Michelle Stevens shows Anita Green, a transgender woman who sued the Miss United States of America pageant after she said the organization denied her entry into its Oregon pageant because she is transgender. The 9th U.S. Circuit ruled on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022, that forcing the pageant to include transgender contestants would illegally infringe on the organization's free speech right to express what it considers to be an ideal vision of womanhood. (Michelle Stevens via AP)
By REBECCA BOONE
Associated Press
BOISE — A federal appellate court on Wednesday said a national beauty pageant has a First Amendment right to exclude a transgender woman from competing because including her could interfere with the message the pageant has said it wants to send about "what it means to be a woman.”...
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