A transgender woman is controversial to enter the stage on the Miss Georgia USA parade this year.
Bella Bautista, 22, a former winner of Miss Buckhead USA 2022, will be the very first transgender participant during the Georgia event when it is held in June.
The participation of the beauty queen comes in the midst of President Trump's action against transaatletes who are allowed to compete in sport under their non-biological gender, of which Bautista said she was not sure if she would be accepted to compete.
“I go to a room where I am not sure what the treatment or reaction will be like, but the only thing I can hope for and for which I can pray is that I will be treated immediately and I have scored honestly,” Bautista said Georgia vote.
Bautista has been a vocal advocate for transgender athletes in sport and previously testified at the Georgia Senate last month before it accepted a bill that would forbid them at school level.
The 22-year-old will participate in a growing list of transgender participants in Miss USA parades, whereby Kataluna Enriquez will be the first person to compete at the National Championship after winning the 2021 Miss Nevada USA.
Bailey Anne Kennedy won the Miss USA Maryland last year, but the participation of Transgender Beauty Queens has fueled the controversy in recent years.
The match called Savanna Ganziewicz, 28, as the winner last year on scandalous fashion when champion Noelia Voigt, 24, resigned her title in the midst of accusations of bullying and abuse in the beauty match.
Bella Bautista, 22, a former winner of Miss Buckhead USA 2022, will be the first transgender participant at the Georgia event when it is held in June
Bautista has been a vocal advocate for transgender athletes in the sport and said before the competition that 'everything I can hope and pray is that I will be treated immediately and that I have scored honestly'
Kataluna Enriquez became the first person to participate in the Miss USA in 2021 after winning the Miss Nevada USA that year
Georgia became central to the national debate about the recording of transgender athletes in Sport when Transzwemmer Lia Thomas controversially won the NCAA championship 2022 in the state.
One of the swimmers that Thomas defeated, Riley Gaines, has become an avid opponent of biological women who compete against transgender athletes.
When Bautista testified to the Senate of Georgia last month, she argued against the 'Riley Gaines Act', who would forbid transatletes to 'ensure a level playing field for women'.
In her comments to the Senate, Bautista closed legislators as she said: 'The people were well paid, well rehearsed and the only thing they could refer to was Lia Thomas. These people have nothing to work on except fondemen.
“They harm one community to protect another community. This is about rights for all Americans and it is unfair. As a transatlet, this influences me and it is time that they really open their eyes and see that the world is bigger than they think. '
Her supplications failed because the legislation was approved in 9-3 votes and voted in the state house of representatives in his current session.
Georgia became central to the national debate about the recording of transgender athletes in Sport when Transzwemmer Lia Thomas controversially won the NCAA championship 2022 in the state (depicted with former swimmer and anti-transmen campaigner Riley Gaines, right)
Noelia Voigt, 24, became the first title holder in the 72-year history of Miss USA to give up her crown last year in the midst of accusations of bullying and abuse within the competition
When Voigt laid down her title, fans saw a cryptic code in her explanation in which the first letter of each sentence set apart 'I am Siled'
Although the issue of transgender beauty queen that competes with Miss USA parades that the competition shared since the recording of Enriquez in 2021, the competition is also startled by its own internal scandals.
The competition has been hit with accusations of bullying and abuse, so that the 2023 winner Noelia Voigt took her crown shocking last year due to concern about her 'physical and mental well -being'.
Savannah Ganziewicz, who won Miss Hawaii in 2023, was mentioned as the general winner from 2023 after Voigt resigned.
She took the headlines with her resignation when she included a cryptic code in her statement, in which the first letter of every sentence 'I am silent'.
Voigt's colleague participants came to support her decision to resign and called for parade bosses to release her from her NDA to “give her voice back”.
The dismissal of the beauty queen was quickly followed by Miss Teen USA UMASOFIA SRIVASTAVA, 17, also stopping and said in her own explanation that her values ​​no longer fully match the direction of the organization. '
A third woman, the social media manager of Miss USA, has also taken sensational dismissal in what is supposed to have been a coordinated step with the title holders, to take management and say that they are the toxicity and bullying of the Disavows workplace. '
