News about Angela Ponce

Federico Barbarossa (right), a trans activist who lives in southern Italy, said the exclusion of trans women from participating in the Miss Italy pageant made him angry, but he was also intrigued by it because he was still a child, but not as a youth and will be branded one by the pageant. Patrizia Mirigliani, Miss Italy's top race official, told Italian news outlet Il Primato Nazionale, "Now, beauty competitions have been trying to make the news using tactics that I find a bit strange." Miss Italy would not allow trans women to compete, according to a local radio station, adding that the pageant traditionally only accepted females at birth to enter. Rikkie Valerie Kolle (left), a transgender woman, had won the Miss Netherlands pageant last month, making her remarks shortly after. Barbarossa entered under his deadname - the name he was given when he was born - in protest and posted a snapshot of his entry confirmation on social media, which encouraged other trans men to do the same.

Rikkie Valerie Kollé said in a Newsweek interview that the vitriol Mulvaney continues to experience following a disastrous friendship with Bud Light is'sad' and 'horrible.' 'I think it's really to make the girl that is poor in confidence,' Kollé said. Mulvaney's experience, she said, reminded her of the cruel remarks she receives online every day. They see us as monsters, and my daily DMs are full of people wishing for my death.' Wishing me dead and advising me to suicide, those two things are difficult to write, but at the same time, it's just raising the bargeon because it has a greater audience than I could ever imagine.'

Rikkie Valerie Kolle (left after gender affirmation surgery, left) seemed to be a picture of poise as she entered the crowd, though a crown was delicately placed on her head (top right). On Saturday, the 22-year-old (bottom right, inset) became the first transgender woman to be crowned Miss Netherlands, but behind that smiling face is someone who knows better than anyone what it is like to feel alone. Becoming a woman was 'not for everybody,' and Ms Kolle admits she suffered a lot from it. Ms Kolle was so determined to become a girl that she changed her name from Rikkie to Rikkie at the age of just 11, claiming she was "born in the wrong body." However, she was also subjected to years of bullying, which culminated in her absence from school and cries every day.

For the first time in the beauty pageant's history, a transgender woman has been named Miss Netherlands, and she is now competing for the Miss Universe crown. Rikkie Valerie Kolle, 22, made history by winning the Dutch competition on Sunday. The new Miss Netherlands wore a red gown as she became emetic as she received her crown from her predecessor Ona Moody and reigning Miss Universe R'Bonney Gabriel from the United States.