The pageant says including a transgender woman could interfere with its message about 'what it means to be a woman.'
BOISE, Idaho — A federal appellate court on Wednesday said a national beauty pageant has a First Amendment right to exclude a transgender woman from competing because including her could interfere with the message the pageant has said it wants to send about"what it means to be a woman."
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Forcing the pageant to include transgender contestant would amount to"compelled speech," — a violation of the First Amendment — and the fact that the pageant was a business that engages in commerce wasn't enough to overcome that free speech right, the panel found. "The Ninth Circuit's conclusion says it all:"Green asks to use the power of the state to force Miss United States of America to express a message contrary to what it desires to express. The First Amendment says no,"" Kaempf said.
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