Miss Italy Photo YouTube A patron of the Miss Italy beauty pageant has ruled out the possibility of transgender entrants being permitted to compete, saying that competitors  “must be a woman from birth.” The rule, which comes shortly after the Netherlands crowned its first-ever transgender winner of a similar beauty pageant, comes in contrast to other beauty events seeking to generate media attention by including non-traditional participants, according to Miss Italy official patron Patrizia Mirigliani . “Lately, beauty contests have been trying to make the news by also using strategies that I think are a bit absurd,”  Mirigliani, the daughter of the late Miss Italy founder Enzo Mirigliani , said to Radio Cusano this week, as reported by Newsweek . Television personality Mirigliani added:  “Since it was established, my competition has foreseen in its regulation the clarification according to which one must be a woman from birth.” She further explained that Miss Italy’s d...

New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins Photo: YouTube Chris Hipkins complained he hadn’t had time to prepare a “preformulated” answer to the question? New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins found himself at a loss for words when asked by journalist Sean Plunket of The Platform how Wellington would  “define a woman”  during a press conference on Monday. The PM nervously admitted the question had  “come slightly out of left field”  for him, tossing up a few possibilities -  “biology, sex, gender”  - before committing to the latter. “People define themselves, people define their own genders,”  Hipkins answered.  Plunket reminded the bewildered PM that British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer had recently expressed the belief that  “99.9% of women don’t have penises”  and made what appeared to be a reference to British feminist Posie Parker’s rally in Auckland. Intended as a stop on her Let Women Speak tour, the event ended premature...