• Kataluna Enriquez, 27, was voted Miss Nevada in June, which opened the doors to the Miss USA national beauty pageant in the United States.

  • The American of Filipino origin wishes in particular to fight against hatred and discrimination against the LGBT community.

This year, the Miss USA contest is historic.

For the first time, a transgender candidate will try to win the crown.

At 27, Kataluna Enriquez was voted Miss Nevada in June, qualifying for the final election.

If transgender women have been allowed to run since 2012, this is the first time that one of them has come this far in the beauty pageant.

Of Filipino origin, the American has been a regular at beauty contests reserved for transgender women since 2016. In 2020, she decided to take part in competitions traditionally open to cisgender women.

The goal of the young woman is to open dialogue and fight against hatred and discrimination against the LGBT community.

Her victory at Miss Silver State opened the doors to the Miss Nevada election for her, and her victory allows her to compete at the national level.

"Your differences are what makes you unique"

Medical secretary, she also makes her own outfits under the KatalunaKouture brand.

An activity that she had started for herself, dressing for expensive beauty pageants, and that she developed to create dresses also "for others," she explained to the Review-Journal.

A survivor of sexual abuse and violence in her childhood, she is proud of how far she has come.

Here is his mantra: "Don't let your differences determine what you are able to do."

Your differences are what makes you unique and you are capable of anything, as long as you believe in yourself ”.

Competitor competition closed to transgender women

Kataluna Enriquez is the second transgender woman to enter a Miss Universe corporate contest. Angela Ponce won the Miss Universe Spain election in 2018. The competing institution, Miss America, did not open its competition to transgender women. The Miss USA election takes place this Monday night at the Paradise Cove Theater in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Regarding the Miss France contest, Sylvie Tellier told the Parisian in 2019 that it was "not prohibited in the regulations" to compete when you are a transgender person.

The general manager of the company Miss France added that she would follow "the choice of the public".

Geneviève de Fontenay, who sold the competition in 2002 to TF1, was opposed to it.

The lady in the hat had reacted to this change in the rules, declaring to Point that a “Miss France cannot be a man who has changed sex” nor “symbolize against nature”.

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