Competition is now underway at a hotel just outside Manila for the fifth annual Miss Amazing Philippine Beauty pageant.
The transwomen-only pageant kicked off with a press conference on October 2. The weeklong competition commenced October 12 at a hotel in Pasay City with 24 contestants vying to be selected as the most beautiful transwoman in the Philippines. The 2007 Miss Amazing Philippines pageant winner will be crowned on October 19.
The Phillipines, like most of Asia has always been wild about beauty pageants and this all-transgender one has steadily been growing in popularity. Last year's pageant drew 28 contestants and the winner, Patricia Montecarlo, went on to compete in the Miss International Queen pageant in Pattaya, Thailand. She finished first runner up to my fellow Texan Erica Andrews, who was representing Mexico.
This year's Miss International Queen Pageant will take place November 9-10 once again at the Tiffany's Show Lounge in Pattaya, Thailand. If you happen to be travelling in that part of the world at that time you may want to check it out. If you can't get to Pattaya, the pageant will be televised live on Thai television.
Which one of the 24 ladies competing will be this year's winner? We'll know for sure on the 19th.
This pageant was just slandered by Dan Abrams on MSNBC during his show tonight when he called it a "miss tranny" contest and called all the contestants crossdressers rather than transwomen. As the producer of Miss Rubber World, a transfemale inclusive a rubber/latex-themed contest, I found this incredibly slanderous and an insult to the women who competed. Abrams does not hold himself to the same journalistic standard as Keith Olbermann, whose show airs just before Abrams, as Keith would get his facts straight or not run the story. Please email Dan Abrams at MSNBC and demand a retraction and apology for this slanderous potshot at a major transwoman event.
ReplyDeleteFaux News also gave the pageant a negative slant as well.
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