The Miss United States of America pageant can prevent trans women from participating in the competition, a federal court ruled this week.
The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth District came in response to a lawsuit brought by Miss Oregon-hopeful and openly transgender woman Anita Green. She sued the Miss USA organization after she was not allowed to participate in the Miss Oregon beauty pageant, even though the pageant itself asked her to take part in the contest.
Miss USA did not disagree that it must abide by OPAA, but it argued that it is within its First Amendment rights to reject a particular contestant.. It agreed with Miss USA's lawyers that the First Amendment protected the organization's"expressive association rights to exclude a person who would impact the group's ability to express its views."
Green argued in court that her inclusion in the pageant would not prevent the Miss USA organization from expressing its viewpoints.
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