Miss Universe

LGBT advocates respond to Miss Universe's policy change allowing transgender women to compete

NCTE recognizes GLAAD and other groups for quickly engaging senior levels of the organization including its owner, Donald Trump, to update the policy.

GLAAD and the Miss Universe Organization today announced that the competition would become open to transgender women.

Following the announcement that the Miss Universe Organization would allow transgender contestant Jenna Talackova to compete, and that GLAAD would be working with Miss Universe to open the pageant up to the trans community, Talackova says she wants pageant owner Donald Trump to make sure “no one else has to suffer the discrimination I have had to endure.”