A model from Sevilla, Angela Ponce will be the very first transgender to compete in the Miss Universe Pageant this year.
In 2015, Angela participated in Miss World Spain where Miss Barcelona Mireia Lalaguna took the title and went on to win the first Miss World crown for the country.
Ponce completed her transition in 2014 after years of hormone therapy, according to Mail Online.
Ponce will now have the distinction of becoming the first transgender woman to ever compete at the Miss Universe pageant.
Back in 2012, a landmark case was established by then Miss Universe Canada transgender contestant Jenna Talackova when she was initially denied by the organization to participate. The Miss Universe Organization then announced that as long as she meets the legal gender recognition requirements of Canada and the standards established by other international competitions,” then she gets the approval to participate in the pageant.
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