A U.S. district judge has ruled that Miss USA is within its First Amendment rights to accept only biological females into its pageant.
Judge Michael W. Mosman, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, dismissed a lawsuit brought against the pageant company by trans activist Anita Noelle Green.
OregonLive.com noted that Green, who holds the title of 2019 Miss Earth Elite Oregon and competed in the 2018 Miss Montana contest, had applied to participate in the Miss USA national pageant in 2019 but her application was rejected.
“This case brought awareness to an issue many people were and still are unaware of and that issue is that discrimination against transgender people is still actively happening in the private and public sector even within the pageant circuit,” Green said in a statement.
