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Angela Ponce won Spain’s national beauty contest last month and she will be the first transgender woman to compete in the Miss Universe pageant. She is seeking to challenge traditional concepts of gender and beauty and also seeks to break down barriers in the fashion industry.
She said that having a vagina alone doesn’t make a woman.She won a beauty contest three years ago and that spurred her on to become a model.She gives lectures in schools and meets up with parents and children who are struggling with transgender issues. Her success as a beauty queen has won her both accolades and attacks and that too mostly from women.
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