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 I'm sorry, but they all look sorta "trans".
Beauty pageants are generally a celebration of masculine beauty, nowadays, so it makes sense that literal biological men would start winning them.

Same deal as with modeling: everything is just openly-gay, now. So, okay, but that's why most of us stopped watching it, and more feminine women have moved on to greener pastures. Beautiful, feminine faces and soft, curvy bodies are so mesmerizing, that mere glimpses of them, in still pictures, stop everyone in their tracks. Don't need a pageant, for that. Just a cell phone, with a camera.

These competitions basically HAVE to have someone trans (or foreign, or really old, or...) win, as outrage-posting is the only major audience they have left. They're all going for the "surprise factor", to get clicks.
Tiresome, but whatever.

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