Transgender activism marches on. The newly crowned Miss Universe Netherlands is a man. The runner-up is a woman.

It’s time for women to stop participating in events that do this. Allowing a man to compete in a women’s beauty pageant denies a woman that place in the competition. And, in this case, the man won. This will not stop until women stand up and say enough is enough. It is wrong.

Rikkie Valerie Kollé was crowned Miss Universe Netherlands 2023 on Saturday. Rikkie is 22 years old, a Dutch-Moluccan model and actress in Leusden. He will represent the Netherlands at the 2023 Miss Universe pageant in El Salvador. The first runner-up is Nathalie Mogbelzada, 26, from Amsterdam.

Miss Netherlands 2023

Winner (male) vs the runner-up (female): pic.twitter.com/HMkg40j890

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The reigning Miss Universe, R’Bonney Gabriel of Houston, Texas, was a special guest at the pageant. I haven’t seen a comment published on her reaction yet. I’d like to know what Rikkie’s competitors thought about it. Did the women have to share dressing room facilities with him?

He makes history as the first transgender woman to win the national title. In 2018, Angele Ponce, Miss Universe Spain, was the first transgender to participate in the Miss Universe pageant.

Until and unless women stand up and speak up, this garbage will continue. The transgender agenda seeks to eliminate all spaces for women. Where are all the feminists? Is there anything more misogynist than a male winning a country’s Miss Universe title? What happens when a transgender competitor wins the full Miss Universe title? It will happen because leftists have been complicit in this war on women. A panel of judges will choose a transgender to win, and I think it will happen in the Miss Universe competition, an international competition before it happens in the Miss America competition.

The question of having a transgender competitor in the Miss Universe pageant goes back to 2012. That is when Trump owned it and he overturned a decision by the Miss Universe organization to disqualify a Canadian model. Jenna Talackova was not being allowed to compete because “she was not a naturally born female.” Trump bowed to the laws of Canada and allowed Jenna to compete. The LGBTQ community applauded Trump. Now he’s running against a very socially conservative Republican, Ron DeSantis, among others, and Trump has flipped on the issue.

The Miss America pageant is also having its share of problems. Ever since former Fox anchor Gretchen Carlson came out as super woke and joined the organization, internal battles have leaked into the press. One big issue is that when Carlson joined the organization in 2018, she made the decision to ban the swimsuit segment. Now a former Miss America, Caressa Cameron, says that the pageant feels like a Ted Talk. There is a new docuseries on A&E that exposes scandals, misogyny, and racism in the Miss America competitions.

Now 20 former Miss Americas and pageant insiders pull back the curtain on the shocking scandals and long-kept secrets at the core of America’s oldest beauty pageant in a new A&E docuseries, ‘Secrets of Miss America.’

A cultural event once viewed by 80 million people a year, the pageant has faltered in recent years amid claims of ‘tyrannical leadership,’ a leaked email scandal that exposed misogyny and racism in the highest ranks of the organization, and a ‘civil war’ over the 2018 decision to ban the swimsuit segment — leaving some former contestants scratching their heads and wondering if the whole establishment has gone ‘too woke.’

‘It was essentially a Ted Talk,’ Caressa Cameron – who won Miss America in 2010 – told DailyMail.com while discussing her appearance in the documentary series.

‘The pageant is unrecognizable at this point, they wanted to make it so progressive that’s it’s not even worth having it on TV anymore,’ Betty Maxwell, Miss America 2016, says in the show.

Carlson was Miss America in 1989. She decided to launch Miss America 2.0. People don’t like change.

Almost immediately, Carlson’s appointment caused a lot of controversy. A lot of big decisions ‘started getting made very quickly’ and without input from the board.

She scrapped the bikini competition and gave the event a #MeToo makeover with the rebranding of ‘Miss America 2.0’ — which intended to spotlight achievements over aesthetics.

Some people felt like she ‘was taking the beauty out of beauty pageants.’ The evening gowns segment was replaced with a ‘live interactive sessions with the judges’ in which a contestant highlights her achievements and goals in life.

‘She removed the elegance of Miss America to me, not just with swimsuit, but also with removing evening gown from a formal category,’ said Ericka Dunlap, Miss America 2004.

It’s easy to see that swimsuit competitions are a relic of the past but the evening gown competition? C’mon.

It’s just a matter of time before we read headlines about a transgender Miss America winner. A transgender competitor won a local title in New Hampshire in 2022.

It’s time to shut them down. They are private companies and are able to control the rules for competitors. It is not too much to expect the competitors in a women’s pageant to be women.