according to them. Afterwards, pageant representatives returned her $195 entry fee and told her she couldn't compete because the competition only allowed "natural born women" assigned female at birth.Green, Oregon's first trans delegate at a Democratic National Convention, sued the organization for gender discrimination; Oregon law bans discrimination based on gender identity.
What appeared like a cut-and-dried case of bias — numerous pageants, including the Miss Universe pageant, formerly affiliated with Miss USA, allow trans women to compete — was rejected by Judge Michael W.
Mosman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. Mosman, a member of the anti-LGBTQ+ Mormon Church and appointed to the federal bench of President.